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The fight for free space-for wilderness and for public space-must be accompanied by a fight for free time to spend wandering in…
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The things we want are transformative, and we don’t know or only think we know what is on the other side of…
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How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?
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I STILL THINK THE REVOLUTION IS TO MAKE THE WORLD SAFE FOR POETRY, MEANDERING, FOR THE FRAIL AND VULNERABLE, THE RARE AND…
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Perhaps it’s that you can’t go back in time, but you can return to the scenes of a love, of a crime,…
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Solitude in the city is about the lack of other people or rather their distance beyond a door or wall, but in…
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For many years, I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that color of…
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The object we call a book is not the real book, but its seed or potential, like a music score. It exists…
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I was fifteen, and when I picture myself then, I see flames shooting up, see myself falling off the edge of the…
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Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production-oriented society, and doing nothing is hard to do. It's best done…
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Kindness and gentleness never had a gender, and neither did empathy.
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When you say 'mother' or 'father' you describe three different phenomena. There is the giant who made you and loomed over your…
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Outside among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Long before feminism made fashion a guilty pleasure, my first experience of the sisterhood among strangers took place in a communal dressing…
— Judith Thurman
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In the bare room under the old library on the hill in the town at the tip of the small peninsula on…
— Rebecca Solnit
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Do your work for six years; but in the seventh, go into solitude or among strangers, so that the memory of your…
— Leo Szilard
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You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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What I wanted was to die among strangers, untroubled, beneath a cloudless sky. And yet my desire differed from the sentiments of…
— Yukio Mishima
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Perhaps love is a minor madness. And as with madness, it's unendurable alone. The one person who can relieve us is of…
— Andrew Sean Greer
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We routinely leave our small children in day care among strangers. At the same time, in our guilt we evince paranoia about…
— Thomas Harris
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