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To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half…
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If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've…
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Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
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Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a…
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I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
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Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see…
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If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very…
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King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good…
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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what…
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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how can we…
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The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.
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A novel is a piece of architecture. It's not random wallowings or confessional diaries. It's a building-it has to have walls and…
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We missed a lot of church, so the music is our confessional.
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Overheard in a Washington D.C. church confessional: "Bless me Father, for sins have been committed."
— Robert Breault
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I want to remind priests that the confessional must not be a torture chamber but rather an encounter with the Lord’s mercy…
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A book, a true book, is the writer's confessional. For, whether he would have it so or not, he is betrayed, directly…
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We are justified freely, for Christ’s sake, by faith, without the exertion of our own strength, gaining of merit, or doing of…
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Many of us are confessional giants but ethical midgets.
— Mark Buchanan
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The new evangelization ... begins in the confessional.
— Pope Benedict XVI
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My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me.
— Michael Pollan
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