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My eyes already touch the sunny hill. Going far ahead of the road I have begun. So we are grasped by what… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Coincidence obeys no laws and if it does we don't know what they are. Coincidence, if you'll permit me the simile, is… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
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If in this supreme test, in face of which the braggart falls silent and every heroic gesture is paralyzed, a man walks… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
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I returned to the white House after midnight more depressed than ever before. I had long since arranged to attend the World… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
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You must have this charm to reach the pinnacle. It is made of everything and of nothing, the striving will, the look,… — Sarah Bernhardt Copy Share Image
These commonplace categories - wife, mother, housewife, teacher - are in fact teleological referents. They gesture to profound states of being that… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
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Ordinarily, of course, I thought it best to remain inconspicuous, but the gesture had a certain irresistable theatricaility, and an inevitablility. Sometimes… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
Love, love, love – all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
I'm still primarily interested in observing as closely as possible the shifting weather between people. I think the master of this sort… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
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