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I beg you, cease going from lecture to lecture; It's better to seek truth directly. The nature of Diamond Wisdom excludes even… — Layman Pang Copy Share Image
And therefore I am come amongst you at this time, not as for my recreation or sport, but being resolved, in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Theoretical webs, dirty webs, fusty webs, old and shrivelling away into nothingness, a fine dust.Who needs that kind of stuff. Far far… — James Kelman Copy Share Image
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The magician seemed to promise that something torn to bits might be mended without a seam, that what had vanished might reappear,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
For it is not the bare Words, but the Scope of the writer that giveth true light, by which any writing is… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is forever England. There… — Rupert Brooke Copy Share Image
Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“As the lines on the palm and forehead … turned darker and thicker, as he matured along the highs and lows of… — Girdhar Joshi Copy Share Image
Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
The advice I continually give to young writers is this, "Learn to paint pictures with words." Not just once upon a time,… — Brian Jacques Copy Share Image
I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
What nobler relationship than that of friend? What nobler compliment can man bestow than friendship? The bonds and ties of the life… — Manly Hall Copy Share Image
..she began to stand around the gate and expect things. What things? She didn't know exactly. Her breath was gusty and short.… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
One white man on the platform in South Carolina asked us where we were going--we had got off the train to get… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Your hands are not made to type out memos. Or put paper through fax machines. Or hold a phone up while you… — James Altucher Copy Share Image
Generally, I like to write in the morning before all the dust of dreams has blown away. Beforehand, I read two papers,… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
Skin was earth; it was soil. I could see, even on my own skin, the joined trapezoids of dust specks God had… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Education in my family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'être. Virtually all of our aunts and uncles had Ph.D.s… — Steven Chu Copy Share Image
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Mozart eliminates the idea of haste from life. His airs could not lag as they make their journey through the listener's attention;… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Sashimi is velvet dust, verging on silk, or a bit of both, and the extraordinary alchemy of its gossamer essence allows it… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
There yet remains but one concluding tale, And then this chronicle of mine is ended - Fulfilled, the duty God ordained to… — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
Requiescat Tread lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow. All her bright golden hair… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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Where is heaven? you ask me, my child,-the sages tell us it is beyond the limits of birth and death, unswayed by… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Insects influenced the shape of the Australian house. Some, like the white ant and lthe Lyctus borer, worked quietly and invisibly until… — Robin Boyd Copy Share Image
The slightest force, when it is applied to assist and guide the natural descent of its object, operates with irresistible weight; and… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I mean, after all, you have to consider we're only made out of dust. That's admittedly not much to go on and… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
When we speak of the dust of the lotus feet of the Spiritual Master, we are speaking of humble approach to serve… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
No one expects the rug to be yanked out from underneath them; life-changing events usually don’t announce themselves. While instinct and intuition… — Slash Copy Share Image
Life-writing calls for any number of dubious gifts: A touch of O.C.D., a lack of imagination, a large desk, neutrality of Swiss… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
There are no stories without meaning. And I am one of those men who can find it even when others fail to… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The greatest of all our human concepts is the immortality of the personality and the eternal glory of the human soul. Throughout… — Sterling W Sill Copy Share Image
The near end of the street was rather dark and had mostly vegetable shops. Abundance of vegetables - piles of white and… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I learn the lines as soon as I can and then the challenge really, for filming, is to show up and be… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
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