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Sam:"Okay, what words would you use then?" I leaned back in the seat, thinking, as Sam looked at me doubtfully. He was right to look… — Maggie Stiefvater
I have always been resistant to doctrine, and any spirituality I had experienced thus far in my life had been much more abstract and not… — Eric Clapton
I tell you, we would be hard put to determine what is more evil -- religion or the pure idea. The intervention of the supernatural… — Anne Rice
She respected her husband in the same way as she respected the General Post Office, as something large, secure and fixed: and though she knew… — James Joyce
Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than… — C.S. Lewis
There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Certain numbers were the same… — Ernest Hemingway
Philosophy is not in a state of external reflection on other domains, but in a state of active and internal alliance with them, and it… — Gilles Deleuze
I deliberately and consciously give preference to a dramatic, mythological way of thinking and speaking, because this is not only more expressive but also more… — Carl Jung
Woman" in the abstract is young, and, we assume, charming. As they get older they pass off the stage, somehow, into private ownership mostly, or… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
I'm this superphilosophical kind of person. Stuck in a prison of abstract ideas and overpowering emotions, I have this personality that makes it really hard… — Natsuo Kirino
It was a grey day, that least fleshly of all weathers; a day of dreams and far hopes and clear visions. It was a day… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sometimes I would open my eyes when we were kissing, I would watch him and I could see it. I could actually see LOVE -… — Tiffanie DeBartolo
Detailed descriptions, abstract ambitions, relevant observations, your's and mine. — Ellen Hopkins
To die; to decide to die; that's much easier for an adolescent than for an adult. What? Doesn't death strip an adolescent of a far… — Milan Kundera
Rememberâ€”boredom is the enemy, not some abstract "failure. — Tim Ferriss
To be brutally honest, for much of that time, I was the only person in the world with Parkinson's. Of course, I mean that in… — Michael J. Fox
And while I was not an admirer of people in the specific, I liked them in the abstract. It is only the execution of the… — Elizabeth McCracken
Yes. The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference. That is why few people find God. They go to church and talk about… — Christopher Pike
In the abstract, it might be tempting to imagine that irreducible complexity simply requires multiple simultaneous mutations - that evolution might be far chancier than… — Michael Behe
To say! To know how to say! To know how to exist via the written voice and the intellectual image! This is all that matters… — Fernando Pessoa

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