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Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.
Joseph Wood Krutch
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Joseph Wood Krutch
Age: 76 †
Born: 1893
Born: November 25
Died: 1970
Died: May 22
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Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning every time one dies, some part of that meaning passes away.
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If we are deprived of hope as well as fear, we are compensated by being given an almost endless patience for enduring or simply for waiting.
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Long before I ever saw the desert I was aware of the mystical overtones which the observation of nature made audible to me. But I have never been more frequently or more vividly aware of them than in connection with the desert phenomena.
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To be reminded that one is very much like other members of the animal kingdom is often funny...though...I do not too much mind being somewhat like a cat.
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It is sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent human being.
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Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.
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In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.
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There are some optimists who search eagerly for the skunk cabbage which in February sometimes pushes itself up through the ice, and who call it a sign of spring. I wish that I could feel that way about it, but I do not. The truth of the matter, to me, is simply that skunk cabbage blooms in the winter time.
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The most important part of our lives-our sensations, emotions, desires, and aspirations-takes place in a universe of illusions which science can attenuate or destroy, but which it is powerless to enrich.
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The cockroach and the bird were both here long before we were. Both could.
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There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.
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August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.
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What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.
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Being the inventor of sex would seem to be a sufficient distinction for a creature just barely large enough to be seen by the naked eye.
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The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.
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Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is.
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In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.
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Man is the only one in whom the instinct of life falters long enough to enable it to ask the question Why?
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We must not judge the society of the future by considering whether or not we should like to live in it the question is whether those who have grown up in it will be happier than those who have grown up in our society or those of the past.
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Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.
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