But in the morning Lust is always furtive. It dresses as mechanically as it undressed and heads straight for the door, to… — Henry Fairlie Copy Share Image
For [Jane Austen and the readers of Pride and Prejudice], as for Mr. Darcy, [Elizabeth Bennett's] solitary walks express the independence that… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I love the apparent quiet of reading a book. You sit there; you're not really moving. It looks very solitary. It looks… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
It should be pointed out for our own guidance in the West that the continual signing of manifestoes and protests is one… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
But clearly, this is what this is about. It's about pushing the security bubble out. It's about rooting out every last guy,… — David Petraeus Copy Share Image
Runners exalt the marathon as a public test of private will, when months or years of solitary training, early mornings, lost weekends,… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
I do paint, and I wanted to actually be a painter. Sometimes I'll whip out paints. It's tough to find the motivation,… — Dichen Lachman Copy Share Image
“The Apollo pictures of the whole Earth conveyed to multitudes something well known to astronomers: On the scale of the worlds -… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Individual interests now trump any consideration of the good of society just as all problems are ultimately laid at the door of… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
It's clear to me now that I have been moving toward you and you toward me for a long time. Though neither… — Robert James Waller Copy Share Image
Increasingly I think of myself as some strange and solitary conductor, introduced to a group of very dynamic musicians who happen to… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Without the book business it would be difficult or impossible for true books to find their true readers and without that solitary… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
I finally figured out that I’m solitary by nature, but at the same time I know so many people; so many people… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
I still perform because it's a necessity for my innards. And those songs, some of those songs, I have sung, I don't… — Smokey Robinson Copy Share Image
For me, writing is a solitary thing and a personal thing. And it's weird, because when you make something that requires money… — Mike White Copy Share Image
Just because of [Albert Camus] way of sensing before thinking. He's in a field that he often feels like escaping from. In… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
It's not very fashionable, but I love life, and I believe that things disappear and reappear and nothing ever solidifies, no matter… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Ive come to the conclusion that people who wear headphones while they walk, are much happier, more confident, and more beautiful individuals… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
Photography is, and has been since its conception, a fabulously broad church. Contemporary practice demonstrates that the medium can be a prompt,… — Charlotte Cotton Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, books took me away from my life to a solitary place that didn't feel lonely. They celebrated… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
How many a knot of mystery and misunderstanding would be untied by one word spoken in simple and confiding truth of heart!… — Orville Dewey Copy Share Image
For most people, what is so painful about reading is that you read something and you don't have anybody to share it… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
if you want to be a little bit solitary and work very hard, you can do it more easily in New York… — Arman Copy Share Image
Those who surrender to the service of the poor through love of Christ, will live like the grains of wheat that dies.… — Oscar Romero Copy Share Image
In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is… — Billie Holiday Copy Share Image
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Soil with a lot of manure in it produces abundant crops; water that is too clear has no fish. Therefore, enlightened people… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
External objects produce decided effects upon the brain. A man shut up between four walls soon loses the power to associate words… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
The brooks flow to their lover, the sea, and the flowers smile at the object of their passion, the light. The mist… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Those who embrace belief in Christ Jesus are bound together in Him, in a real yet incomplete way, in his Body, the… — Vincent Nichols Copy Share Image
My first name - I have no middle name - was chosen by my father, as he told me, on that solitary… — Immanuel Velikovsky Copy Share Image
Novelists in particular love to rhapsodize about the glory of the solitary mind; this is natural, because their job requires them to… — Clive Thompson Copy Share Image
We all have secret lives. The life of excretion; the world of inappropriate sexual fantasies; our real hopes, our terror of death;… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast. Some men, like bats or owls, have… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
When was it I realized that, on this truly dark and solitary path we all walk, the only way we can light… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
I like stand-up. But I'd also like a family and house and a yard. I want to work with a lot of… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
I write in praise of the solitary act: of not feeling a trespassing tongue forced into one's mouth, one's breath smothered, nipples… — Fleur Adcock Copy Share Image
We are, first of all, not solitary creatures and second of all, we are deeply embedded in the lives of others. It's… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
There are a few exceptions, however, to this rule that our projection of ourselves is lower than the facts of Nature, and… — Odell Shepard Copy Share Image
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![“Just because of [Albert Camus] way of sensing before thinking. He's in a field that he often feels like escaping from. In any case, you have to learn what blood is. It all has to be rationalised. In that he feels exiled, solitary.” quote by Catherine Camus](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/82c/catherine-camus-12238_blood_just-because-of-albert-camus-way-of-sens_1127724.jpg)
