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He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude… — Jorge Luis Borges
There is the solitude of suffering, when you go through darkness that is lonely, intense, and terrible. Words become powerless to express your pain; what… — John O'Donohue
Every morning I offer my body, my mind and any ability that I posses, to be used by Thee, O infinite creator, in whatever way… — Paramahansa Yogananda
What concerns me is that man, unable to articulate, to express himself adequately, reverts to action. Since the vocabulary of action is limited, as it… — Joseph Brodsky
Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don't dare express themselves… — Sophie Scholl
I see by your eagerness, and the wonder and hope which your eyes express, my friend, that you expect to be in formed of the… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
This race and this country and this life produced me, he said. I shall express myself as I am. — James Joyce
When I write I am trying to express my way of being in the world. This is primarily a process of elimination: once you have… — Zadie Smith
Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that… — Charles Baudelaire
You know, you hear about these movements for women, and for children, and for people who are any race but white, and you think that… — Alex Sanchez
In my view, the novelist has no right to express his opinions on the things of this world. In creating, he must imitate God: do… — Gustave Flaubert
Most people don't know what they want or feel. And for everyone, myself included, It's very difficult to say what you mean when what you… — John Cassavetes
Why not spend that time on art: painting, sculpting, charcoal, pastel, oils? Are words or numbers more important than images? Who decides this? Does algebra… — Laurie Halse Anderson
Can the plural possessive express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe! — Laurie Halse Anderson
it is a principle of his that no man who was not a true gentleman at heart, ever was, since the world began, a true… — Charles Dickens
To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the… — Mark Twain
Got no checkbooks, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I've got the sun in the mornin' and the moon at… — Irving Berlin
Don't separate the mind from the body. Don't separate even character - you can't. Our unit of existence is a body, a physical, tangible, sensate… — Susanna Kaysen
In a head-on collision with Fanatics, the real problem is always the same: how can we possibly behave decently toward people so arrogantly ignorant that… — David James Duncan
It is always hazardous to express what one has to say indirectly and allusively. — Walter Pater
To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts. — John Donne
To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man. — Aristotle
I don't see why it's impossible to express everything that's on one's mind. — Ivan Turgenev
The more identities a man has, the more they express the person they conceal. — John le Carre
Music is just a word for something we love largely because it consists of things that words can't express. Likewise, the heart is just a… — David James Duncan

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