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Only describe, don't explain. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
To me, reason is as spiritual as anything else, the beauty of reason seems to me indelible and ineffable and numinous... the spirit is after… — Stephen Fry
True intercession involves bringing the person, or the circumstance that seems to be crashing in on you, before God, until you are changed by His… — Oswald Chambers
People don't become inured to what they are shown - if that's the right way to describe what happens - because of the quantity of… — Susan Sontag
Painting taught literature to describe. — Orhan Pamuk
Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf.… — Annie Dillard
For I do not want any one to read my book carelessly. I have suffered too much grief in setting down these memories. Six years… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
No; I did not hate him. The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings. I… — Jack London
The word "metaphor" means carrying something from one place to another . . . and it is when you describe something by using a word… — Mark Haddon
This principle of nature being very remote from the conceptions of Philosophers, I forbore to describe it in that book, least I should be accounted… — Isaac Newton
We all have one idea of what the color blue is, but pressed to describe it specifically, there are so many ways: the ocean, lapis… — Sarah Dessen
But I've never even been to Olympus! Zeus is crazy!" Chiron and Grover glanced nervously at the sky. The clouds didn't seem to be parting… — Rick Riordan
Kate, don't be like that. You know I only did so well because I yearn-see, SAT word- to follow you to college and steal your… — Elizabeth Scott
God has revealed to me that only the Paramatman, whom the Vedas describe as the Pure Soul, is as immutable as Mount Sumeru, unattached, and… — Ramakrishna
I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process. — C.S. Lewis
All afternoon in the deck chair, I try to describe to my notebook the colors of the water and sky. How to translate sunlight into… — Frances Mayes
I spent an hour looking at pots and carpets in the museums the other day, until the desire to describe them became like the desire… — Virginia Woolf
He wanted to tell her that he was inspired and vigilant and recklessly alone, that his body contained his unsteady heart and something else, something… — Michael Cunningham
Nothing can describe the withering horror of this. You feel lost, sick at heart before such unmasked hatred, not so much because it threatens you… — John Howard Griffin
This is how space begins, with words only, signs traced on the blank page. To describe space: to name it, to trace it, like those… — Georges Perec
Huh? Oh you have a hidden agenda, do you?" She laughed. His straight-faced humor always surprised her. "You promised me you didn't." "There is nothing… — Dru Pagliassotti
A great friendship was like a great work of art, he thought. It took time and attention, and a spark of something that was impossible… — Elise Broach
And I like those authors best whose scenes describe my own situation in life-- and the friends who are about me whose stories touch me… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Poets have tried to describe Ankh-Morpork. They have failed. Perhaps it's the sheer zestful vitality of the place, or maybe it's just that a city… — Terry Pratchett
I am so afraid of people's words.They describe so distinctly everything: And this they call dog and that they call house, here the start and… — Rainer Maria Rilke

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