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When old settlers say 'One has to understand the country,' what they mean is, 'You have to get used to our ideas…
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When a white man in Africa by accident looks into the eyes of a native and sees the human being (which it…
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She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every day more…
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A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love.
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Oh cat, I'd say, or pray: be-ootiful cat! Delicious cat! Exquisite cat! Satiny cat! Cat like a soft owl, cat with paws…
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There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.
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The smell of manure, of sun on foliage, of evaporating water, rose to my head; two steps farther, and I could look…
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What matters most is that we learn from living.
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Coincidences are God's way of remaining anonymous.
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And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, 'Without me the literary industry would not exist: the publishers,…
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Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes…
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Nonsense, it was all nonsense: this whole damned outfit, with its committees, its conferences, its eternal talk, talk, talk, was a great…
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The smell of manure, of sun on foliage, of evaporating water, rose to my head; two steps farther, and I could look…
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You are not enclosed within your bodies, nor confined to houses or fields. That which is you dwells above the mountain and…
— Khalil Gibran
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Existence permeates sexuality and vice versa, so that it is impossible to determine, in a given decision or action, the proportion of…
— Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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Enclosed within his artificial creation, man finds that there is “no exit”; that he cannot pierce the shell of technology again to…
— Jacques Ellul
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Traveling through the world produces a marvelous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within…
— Michel de Montaigne
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In this we see the wondrous virtue of the Lord: that the power dwelling in His body should communicate to perishable things…
— Hilary of Poitiers
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As to judging our own time, and thereby gaining some basis for a judgment of future possibilities, we are doubtless not only…
— Emily Greene Balch
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The sea where living creatures were at one time immersed is now enclosed within their bodies.
— Italo Calvino
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