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Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic un-interestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity,…
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I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip…
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What other sport holds out hope of improvement to a man or a woman over fifty? True, the pros begin to falter…
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The other sad truth about golf spectatorship is that for today's pros it all comes down to the putting, and that the…
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When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves…
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Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.
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Let us not seek to make it less monstrous, for our own convenience, our own sense of beauty, lest, awakened in one…
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Smaller than a breadbox, bigger than a TV remote, the average book fits into the human hand with a seductive nestling, a…
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Painting dissolves the forms at its command ... it melts them into color.
— Alexander Eliot
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Why this is hell, nor am I out of it: Thinkst thou that I who saw the face of God, And tasted…
— Christopher Marlowe
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To one degree or another we all struggle with selfishness. Since it is so common, why worry about selfishness anyway? Because selfishness…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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...for it is the fate of a woman Long to be patient and silent, to wait like a ghost that is speechless,…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to…
— Jeanette Winterson
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What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.
— Lord Chesterfield
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