In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time.

—Edward P. Tryon

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More quotations tagged with “reason”

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

—Paulo Coelho

love reason loging

Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?

—Artemus Ward

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Why shouldn't things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? They are so, and we are so, and they and we go very well together.

—George Santayana

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Falling in love is not a rational process. It can’t be planned or avoided. It happens—for good or bad, it simply happens. I knew he’d eventually leave. I knew we couldn’t be together, but I fell anyway.

—Suzanne Selfors in Coffeehouse Angel

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Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?

—George Carlin

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