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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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A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend.
— Pierre Corneille
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Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
— Samuel Johnson
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Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, wants to re-establish them. Ignorance…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.
— Albert Einstein
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If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down; aspires and not despairs.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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He who aspires to be a serious wine drinker must drink claret.
— Samuel Johnson
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No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port for men: but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.…
— James Boswell
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But above everything, drink wines with love. They are like women - different, mysterious, fickle. And each wine has to be taken…
— Unknown Author
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