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Dawn Quote by Carl Jung

“Insight that dawns slowly seems to me to have more lasting effects than a fitful idealism, which is unlikely to hold out for long.” quote by Carl Jung — Download Open image

“Insight that dawns slowly seems to me to have more lasting effects than a fitful idealism, which is unlikely to hold out for long.”

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Dawn's faint breath breathes with your mouth at the ends of empty streets. Gray light your eyes, sweet drops of dawn on dark hills. Your steps and breath like the wind of dawn smother houses. The city shudders, Stones exhale— you are life, an awakening. Star lost in the light of dawn, trill of the breeze, warmth, breath— the night…

Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.

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It wasn't really touching to be young; it was touching not to be young, because you had less of life left. Touching to be thirty; more touching to be forty; tragic to be fifty; and heartbreaking to be sixty. As to seventy, as to eighty, one would feel as one did during the last dance of a ball, tired but…

In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary point and take details for granted: two trivialities omitted can add up to an impasse). The unpractised writer, even after the dawn of a conscience, gives him no such chance; before he can spot the point…

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May dawn, as the proverb goes, bring happy tidings coming from her mother night.

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When there's doom and gloom, don't forget there's darkness before dawn.

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Don't you know that day dawns after night, showers displace drought, and spring and summer follow winter? Then, have hope! Hope forever, for God…

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In the beginning, people prayed to the Creatress of Life, the Mistress of Heaven. At the very dawn of religion, God was a woman.…

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