Essentials Quotes

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Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship,… — Laura Hillenbrand
Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action. — Virginia Woolf
In the last analysis, the essential thing is the life of individual. This alone makes history, here alone do the great transformations take place, and… — Carl Jung
Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit - unconscious and conscious. — Siri Hustvedt
A dispassionate white sun shone at the summit of the sky. I wanted to hone myself on it till I grew saintly and thin and… — Sylvia Plath
Tolerance, inter-cultural dialogue and respect for diversity are more essential than ever in a world where peoples are becoming more and more closely interconnected. — Kofi Annan
And everyone must lose his mind, everyone must! The sooner the better! It is essential â€” I know it. — Yevgeny Zamyatin
These people yapped loudly of race, of race consciousness, of race pride, and yet suppressed its most delightful manifestations, love of color, joy of rhythmic… — Nella Larsen
In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. The essential substance of every… — Aldous Huxley
...the essential intention is the real sin. A man who cannot choose ceases to be a man. — Anthony Burgess
If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth. — Yevgeny Zamyatin
Now he realized the truth: that sacrifice was no purchase of freedom. It was like a great elective office, it was like an inheritance of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of the other? That's how we… — C.S. Lewis
Art is the suitcase of history, carrying the essentials. Art is the life buoy of history. Art is seed, art is memory, art is vaccine. — Yann Martel
Here we have the paradox, the potentially tragic paradox, that our relatedness to others is an essential aspect of our being, as is our separateness,… — R. D. Laing
Nevertheless, (Jefferson) believed that the habit of skepticism is an essential prerequisite for responsible citizenship. He argued that the cost of education is trivial compared… — Carl Sagan
But, Jefferson worried that the people - and the argument goes back to Thucydides and Aristotle - are easily misled. He also stressed, passionately and… — Carl Sagan
At the heart of all great art is an essential melancholy. — Federico Garcia Lorca
Part of life is a quest to find that one essential person who will understand our story. But we choose wrongly so often. Over the… — Jonathan Carroll
He had two lives: one, open, seen and known by all who cared to know, full of relative truth and of relative falsehood, exactly like… — Anton Chekhov

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