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...she took her hand and raised her brush. For a moment it stayed trembling in a painful but exciting ecstacy in the air. Where to… — Virginia Woolf
To transform the world, we must begin with ourselves; and what is important in beginning with ourselves is the intention. The intention must be to… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Well, I mean, yes idealism, yes the dignity of pure research, yes the pursuit of truth in all its forms, but there comes a point… — Douglas Adams
When we are mindful, deeply in touch with the present moment, our understanding of what is going on deepens, and we begin to be filled… — Nhat Hanh
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. I feel as if this tree… — Willa Cather
Living in a world that is valued only as gain, an ever-expanding world-as-frontier that has no worth of its own, no fullness of its own,… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Marley was dead: to begin with. — Charles Dickens
For ever and ever, we say when we are young, or in our prayers. Twice, we say it. Old One, do we not? For ever… — Susan Cooper
but it is also true, if this brings her any consolation, that if, before every action, we were to begin weighing up the consequences, thinking… — Jose Saramago
They called themselves the Munrungs. It meant The People, or The True Human Beings. It's what most people call themselves, to begin with. And then… — Terry Pratchett
Introduction To Poetry I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear… — Billy Collins
The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live. — Elbert Hubbard
I'd like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate wilfully misunderstand me And half… — Robert Frost
For with my intuition I knew that this man was repeating a pattern over and over again: courting a woman with his intelligence and sympathy,… — Doris Lessing
Let us begin this letter, this prelude to an encounter, formally, as a declaration, in the old-fashioned way: I love you. You do not know… — Neil Gaiman
I will describe my eyes and then begin the story. My eyes are blue and resplendent. Now I will begin the story. — Jonathan Safran Foer
You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler. — Italo Calvino
Begin to wonder what you do write about. Or if you have anything to say. Or even if there is such a thing as a… — Lorrie Moore
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The more observing ones may have seen, but discerning people are usually discreet and often kind, for we usually bleed a little before we begin… — Willa Cather

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