Aware Quotes
2807 Aware quotes by 1905 unique authors
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Surely everyone is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a wintry fireside; candles at four o'clock, warm hearthrugs, tea, a fair tea-maker, shutters closed,…
— Thomas de Quincey
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The pleasure of despair. But then, it is in despair that we find the most acute pleasure, especially when we are aware of the hopelessness…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Laboring through a world every day more stultified, which expected salvation in codes and governments, ever more willing to settle for suburban narratives and diminished…
— Thomas Pynchon
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Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all great writers she is the most…
— Virginia Woolf
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But even in the schoolyard I'd been aware of that silence, that reserve in him, as though he'd been raised by foxes and language was…
— Patricia A. McKillip
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Today we are aware as never before of the plurality of human life-styles and possibilities, while at the same time being tied, like in an…
— Gary Snyder
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Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve…
— Sylvia Plath
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Whenever you are examining someone else's belongings, you are bound to learn many interesting things about the person of which you were not previously aware.
— Daniel Handler
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... And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of what…
— David Bowie
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A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke [of the axe] he is writing his signature on the face of the…
— Aldo Leopold
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No matter who we are, no matter what our circumstances, our feelings and emotions are universal. And music has always been a great way to…
— Josh Groban
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Writing and reading are the only ways to find your voice. It won't magically burst forth in your poems the next time you sit down…
— Dorianne Laux
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I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing.
— Anais Nin
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I do not concern myself with my inability to feel such comfort amidst humans (other than with very few friends and family), but, rather, am…
— Rick Bass
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We are human, and we suffer, and unlike the animals on the farm, we are self-aware, and we know that we suffer, and it doesn't…
— Jon Katz
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There are friends with whom we share neither interests nor any particular experiences, friends with whom we never correspond, whom we seldom meet and then…
— Stanislaw Lem
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To acknowledge our ancestors means we are aware that we did not make ourselves, that the line stretches all the way back, perhaps to God;…
— Alice Walker
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Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind…
— C.S. Lewis
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There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments…
— Milan Kundera
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He sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebecca had sat during the early days of the house to give embroidery lessons,…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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When you love someone deeply, you know secrets they haven't told you yet. Or secrets they aren't even aware of themselves. ... She was also…
— Jonathan Carroll
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…. Query: How contrive not to waste one's time? Answer: By being fully aware of it all the while. Ways in which this can be…
— Albert Camus
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It was as if the empty nights were made for thinking of him. And sometimes I found myself so vividly aware of him it was…
— Anne Rice
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You will think me transported with Enthusiasm but I am not. — I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it…
— John Adams
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Whenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the appearance of whatever…
— John Berger
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