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lead singer of The Doors 1943–1971Related quotes
“Nobody can stay in the garden of Eden,' Jacques said. And then: 'I wonder why.”
James Baldwin book Giovanni's Room
I have thought about Jacques' question since. Everyone, after all, goes the same dark road - and the road has a trick of being most dark, most treacherous, when it seems most bright - and it's true that nobody stays in the garden of Eden. Perhaps everybody has a garden of Eden, I don't know; but they have scarcely seen their garden before they see the flaming sword. Then, perhaps, life only offers the choice of remembering the garden or forgetting it. Either, or.
Pt. 1, Ch. 2 - p.22
Giovanni's Room (1956)
“Being normal is being completely unique, because nobody's the same.”
Jonathan Van Ness (1987) American hairstylist and television personality
page 218
Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love (2019)
Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist
Variant: Nobody's life is filled with perfect little moments. And if it were they wouldn't be perfect little moments. They would just be normal. ow would you know happiness if you never experienced downs?
Source: P.S. I Love You
Sri Anandamoyi Ma (1896–1982) Hindu saint
Gopinath Kaviraj, Sri Sri Ma Anandamayi: Upadesa O Prasnottara, p. 1
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“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
Albert Camus book The Myth of Sisyphus
This quotation is from Notebook IV in Notebooks: 1942-1951, not Myth of Sisyphus. The quotation appears in none of Camus books you find in bookstores
The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), An Absurd Reasoning
“Some secrets stayed secrets because nobody knew them. Some because nobody told.”
Daniel Abraham (1969) speculative fiction writer from the United States
Source: Cibola Burn (2014), Chapter 5 (p. 55)