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I made the remark that I don't avoid people in order to live quietly, but rather in order to be able to die quietly.

Franz Kafka (1949). “The Diaries of Franz Kafka: 1914-1923. Tr. by Martin Greenberg, with the co-operation of Hannah Arendt”, Schocken

But in order to be the thing you want to be, you have to work like a dog at the thing you love.

"Frank Gets Really Frank : Twenty-six years ago, as a vain young man, Frank Langella appeared in the first production at the Mark Taper Forum. Now, as busy as ever, he is happily embracing the new and differing roles maturity offers". Interview with Barbara Isenberg, articles.latimes.com. May 9, 1993.

Christianity was simple: fight your desires in order to please God.

Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.13, David C Cook

Physics is experience, arranged in economical order.

Ernst Mach, Thomas J. McCormack (2014). “Popular Scientific Lectures”, p.197, Cambridge University Press

Once an affair is over, the cheaters need to agree not to see each other anymore in order to reestablish trust with their spouses.

"Slate: Advice from 'Dear Prudence' on Mom's facial hair, proselytizing bosses, wedding boycotts and family rifts". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. November 9, 2009.

I am well aware that many will say that no one can possibly speak with spirits and angels so long as he lives in the body; and many will say that it is all fancy, others that I relate such things in order to gain credence, and others will make other objections.

Emanuel Swedenborg (1954). “Arcana Coelestia: The Heavenly Arcana Contained in the Holy Scripture Or Word of the Lord Unfolded. Together with Wonderful Things Seen in the World of Spirits and in the Heaven of Angels”