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Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of…
— George Eliot
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Be true to the thought of the moment and avoid distraction. Other than continuing to exert yourself, enter into nothing else, but go to the…
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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How not to imagine the tumors ripening beneath his skin, flesh I have kissed, stroked with my fingertips, pressed my belly and breasts against, some…
— Dorianne Laux
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Physical objects are conceptually imported into the situation as convenient intermediaries not by definition in terms of experience, but simply as irreducible posits comparable, epistemologically,…
— Willard Van Orman Quine
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And what's strange, what would be marvelous, is not that God should really exist; the marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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He saw very clearly how all his life led only to this moment and all after led to nowhere at all. He felt something cold…
— Cormac McCarthy
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By the experience of active love. Strive to love your neighbour actively and indefatigably. In as far as you advance in love you will grow…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Hope is the greatest madness. What can we expect of a world that we enter with the assurance of seeing our fathers and mothers die?…
— Alfred de Vigny
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No, I won't leave the world--I'll enter a lunatic asylum and see if the profundity of insanity reveals to me the riddles of life. Idiot,…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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pull a string, a puppet moves ... each man must realize that it can all disappear very quickly: the cat, the woman, the job, the…
— Charles Bukowski
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Of the two powers, the two categories that take possession of us when we enter the world, space is by far the less mysterious. .…
— Stanislaw Lem
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Inasmuch as art preserves, with the promise of happiness, the memory of the goal that failed, it can enter, as a 'regulative idea,' the desperate…
— Herbert Marcuse
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No one has the right to enter literature without fresh new ideas. We’ve got too many dexterous drudges as it is.
— Jan Neruda
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If you feel . . . that well-read people are less likely to be evil, and a world full of people sitting quietly with good…
— Daniel Handler
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With old liars who have been acting all their lives there are moments when they enter so completely into their part that they tremble or…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Sometimes the one who is running from the Life/Death/Life nature insists on thinking of love as a boon only. Yet love in its fullest form…
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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It's a dark, cool, quiet place. A basement in your soul. And that place can sometimes be dangerous to the human mind. I can open…
— Haruki Murakami
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All students enter law school with a certain amount of idealism and desire to serve the public, but after three years of brutal competition we…
— John Grisham
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Enter, stranger, but take heed Of what awaits the sin of greed, For those who take, but do not earn, Must pay most dearly in…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Sometimes when she is able to spend the night with him they are wakened by the three minarets of the city beginning their prayers before…
— Michael Ondaatje
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