Finally Quotes

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I'm tired of this. It's like, just when I think our goal is within reach, it slips right through our fingers. It's happened time and… — Hiromu Arakawa
Eroticism is first and foremost a thirst for otherness. And the supernatural is the supreme otherness. This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry,… — Octavio Paz
The thought of Christmas overwhelms him. He no longer looks forward to the holiday; he wants only to be on the other side of the… — Jhumpa Lahiri
Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Have you ever felt so at one with the world, with the universe, with everything that is, that you were overcome with love? That is… — Richard Bach
I finally figured out that Iâ€™m solitary by nature, but at the same time I know so many people; so many people think they own… — Charles de Lint
I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. — John Muir
I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and… — Henry David Thoreau
We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts… — George Orwell
Something went klunk. Like a nickel dropping in a soda machine. One of those small insights that explains everything. This was puberty for these boys.… — David Gerrold
There are millions of people in the world, and the spirits will see that most of them you never have to meet. But there are… — Jodi Picoult
Any fatherâ€¦must finally give his child up to the wilderness and trust to the providence of God. It seems almost a cruelty for one generation… — Marilynne Robinson
It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you… — Betty Friedan
I kept finding the same anguish, the same doubt; a self-contempt that neither irony nor intellect seemed able to deflect. Even DuBoisâ€™s learning and Baldwinâ€™s… — Barack Obama
An extraterrestrial being, newly arrived on Earth - scrutinizing what we mainly present to our children in television, radio, movies, newspapers, magazines, the comics, and… — Carl Sagan
Still, no one finally knows what a poet is supposed either to be or to do. Especially in this country, one takes on the jobâ€”because… — Robert Creeley
His whole body was completely still, except the wings, which were still fluttering a little, like when someone dies. That's when he finally understood that… — Etgar Keret
True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys. — Yukio Mishima
So this was how secrets got started, I thought to myself. People constructed them little by little. I had not intended to keep May Kasahara… — Haruki Murakami
Very well, but remember this... I'll be looking at you when you're laid on the cross and the twelve blows are crashing down on your… — Patrick SÃ¼skind

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