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To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half…
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If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've…
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Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a…
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Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see…
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If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very…
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King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good…
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Now the writer, I think, has the chance to live more than other people in the presence of ... reality. It is…
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...she felt, with her hand on the nursery door, that community of feeling with other people which emotion gives as if the…
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I am trying to counter the fixity of architectures, their stolidity, with elements that give an ineffable immaterial quality.
— Toyo Ito
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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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For the current of our spiritual life creeds, rituals and channels that may thwart or help, according to their fixity or openness.…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Once you abstract from this, once you generalize and postulate Universals, you have departed from the creative reality, and entered the realm…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Fortitude. ... It means fixity of purpose. It means endurance. It means having the strength to live with what constrains you.
— Hilary Mantel
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A certain similarity exists, although the type evolves, between all the women we love, a similarity that is due to the fixity…
— Marcel Proust
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