Flows Quotes
641 quotes by 487 authors
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I am a part of the part that at first was all, part of the darkness that gave birth to the light, that supercilious light…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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His mouth opens. From inside him comes a slow stream, without breath, without interruption. It flows up through his body and out upon me; it…
— J M Coetzee
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Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Giving and receiving are at bottom one thing, dependent on whether one lives open or closed. Living openly one becomes a medium, a transmitter; living…
— Henry Miller
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The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--for the Past is frozen and no…
— C.S. Lewis
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If each side had been frankly contending for its own real wish, they would all have kept within the bounds of reason and courtesy; but…
— C.S. Lewis
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Human skin is porous; the world flows through you. Your senses are large pores that let the world in. By being attuned to the wisdom…
— John O'Donohue
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Sexual union is a holy moment in which a part of Heaven flows into the Earth.
— James Redfield
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Fantasy flows in where fact leaves a vacuum.
— Tom Stoppard
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Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part.
— Philip Yancey
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And consider: it is loss to which everything flows, absence in which everything flowers
— Margaret Atwood
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This may be the one clear truth of the so-called border issue: Put a poor country next to a rich one and watch which way…
— George Saunders
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.
— Will Durant
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She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you know all there is to know…
— Neil Gaiman
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Unfinished Poem I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.
— John O'Donohue
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The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked,…
— Anne Rice
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Love, being in love, isn’t a constant thing. It doesn’t always flow at the same strength. It’s not always like a river in flood. It’s…
— Aidan Chambers
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I’m dazzled by your facility. In ten days you’ll have written six stories! I don’t understand it… I’m like one of those old aqueducts: there’s…
— Gustave Flaubert
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Life is a stream On which we strew Petal by petal the flower of our heart; The end lost in dream, They float past our…
— Amy Lowell
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You’ll join me sooner than you know in a place with . . . no illusions, where the truth is the only architecture, the only…
— Mark Helprin
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