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When the emotional soul receives a wounding shock, the soul seems to recover as the body recovers. But this is only in appearance. Slowly, slowly… — D. H. Lawrence
[Saint Anthony] said, in his solitude, he sometimes encountered devils who looked like angels, and other times he found angels who looked like devils. When… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Some attribute had departed from her, the permanence of which had been essential to keep her a woman. Such is frequently the fate, and such… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Turgenev was a very serious fellow but he could make me laugh because a truth first encountered can be very funny. When someone else's truth… — Charles Bukowski
If nature leads us to mathematical forms of great simplicity and beauty—by forms, I am referring to coherent systems of hypotheses, axioms, etc.—to forms that… — Werner Heisenberg
She had been the quiet, rather plain girl, with a surprisingly sharp tongue if she was put out, lovely eyes and pretty hair and a… — Betty Neels
Each new thing he encountered in life impelled him in a direction that fully convinced him of its rightness, but then the next new thing… — Jonathan Franzen
You encountered a misery near the end of the day and it took a while to gauge its full extent. Some miseries had sharp curvature… — Jonathan Franzen
From another direction he felt the sensation of being a sheep startled by a flying saucer, but it was virtually indistinguishable from the feeling of… — Douglas Adams
Theology is-- or should be-- a species of poetry,which read quickly or encountered in a hubbub of noise makes no sense. You have to open… — Karen Armstrong
... Where did you go?” “Down below.” “Ugh,” she said. “I’ve heard they’re little better than animals.” Funny. I thought the same thing about most… — Ann Aguirre
An Outside Context Problem was the sort of thing most civilisations encountered just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in the same way… — Iain Banks
A display of indifference to all the actions and passions of mankind was not supposed to be such a distinguished quality at that time, I… — Charles Dickens
But, with time, one has encountered many of the monsters, and one is increasingly less terrified of those still to be met. — Kay Redfield Jamison
Never say you are five feet nine when you are five feet eight and a half" was the first one I encountered. Another was, "Always… — John Knowles
Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional… — Albert Einstein
Suffering, I was beginning to think, was essential to a good life, and as inextricable from such a life as bliss. It’s a great enhancer.… — Lance Armstrong
To the everlasting credit of the people of District 12, not one person claps. Not even the ones holding betting slips, the ones who are… — Suzanne Collins
I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to go. If I've… — Edward Abbey
I am cruel and I am selfish, but this need I have inside me, this need for you and no other, is stronger than anything… — Gena Showalter
The thing I loved about her was that I never felt like she was selling anything. She would talk to God as if she knew… — Donald Miller
Why are so many of us enspelled by myths and folk stories in this modern age? Why do we continue to tell the same old… — Terri Windling
No religion I ever encountered made any sense. None are consistent. Most gods are megalomaniacs and paranoid psychotics by their worshippers' description. I don't see… — Glen Cook
However, there are those who deserve to die but who have not yet encountered the means to do so—we help them on their way. — R.L. LaFevers
This was another item about growing up: you encountered all the cliches of love and loss and heartbreak. — Sylvia Brownrigg

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