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Something amazing happens when the rest of the world is sleeping. I am glued to my chair. I forget that I ever…
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I, on the other hand, believe that books, maps, scissors, and Scotch tape dispensers are all unreliable vagrants, likely to take off…
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For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.
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Our view of reality is only a view, not reality itself.
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It is a grave error to assume that ice cream consumption requires hot weather.
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If the soul cannot find its jacket. it is condemned to an eternity of wandering--naked and alone
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One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [...] a book belongs to the reader as well as to…
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Muses are fickle, and many a writer, peering into the voice, has escaped paralysis by ascribing the creative responsibility to a talisman:…
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In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.
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Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on…
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It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious completely unrelated…
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A philosophy professor at my college, whose baby became enamored of the portrait of David Hume on a Penguin paperback, had the…
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The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.
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How does one chip off the marble that doesn't belong? ... That comes about through five things: humility, reverence, inspiration, deep purpose,…
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Unless you can find some sort of LOYALTY, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living.
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Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.
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That which rises and sinks is made up of what it rises from. The finality of the universe is the God Arunachala.…
— Ramana Maharshi
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This mind is a prison. It cannot find any freedom anywhere. It must die before freedom comes to you. But we have…
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For the Baul, life is not a serious thing. It is fun, it is laughter, it is joy. So you cannot find…
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A great part of its [higher arithmetic] theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of…
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
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You cannot find, make or understand true friendship without having enemies.
— Frank Moore Colby
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You have so little faith in yourself because you are unwilling to accept the fact that perfect love is in you, and…
— Kenneth Wapnick
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I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Art is not to be found by touring to Egypt, China, or Peru; if you cannot find it at your own door,…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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