Gradually Quotes

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Old lovers go the way of old photographs, bleaching out gradually as in a slow bath of acid: first the moles and pimples, then the… — Margaret Atwood
Learning To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life. — Czeslaw Milosz
Long looking at paintings is equivalent to being dropped into a foreign city, where gradually, out of desire and despair, a few key words, then… — Jeanette Winterson
Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves… — Friedrich Nietzsche
When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long… — John Irving
Gradually the healing took place, seeming as it always does that it wasn't taking place. — Ursula K. Le Guin
You must be the person you have never had the courage to be. Gradually, you will discover that you are that person, but until you… — Paulo Coelho
If anyone spends almost the whole day in reading...he gradually loses the capacity for thinking...This is the case with many learned persons; they have read… — Arthur Schopenhauer
He is life's liberating force. He is release of limbs and communion through dance. He is laughter, and music in flutes. He is repose from… — Euripides
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant-- Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise As Lightning to… — Emily Dickinson
When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never… — John Steinbeck
The adventure of our first days together gradually blossomed into something else: a feeling I'd never had, which I can only compare to the sensation… — Ian Caldwell
When there is a tendency to compartmentalize the spiritual and make it resident in a certain type of life only, the spiritual is apt gradually… — Flannery O'Connor
He (the devil) always sends errors into the world in pairs--pairs of opposites...He relies on your extra dislike of one to draw you gradually into… — C.S. Lewis
I don't think literature would be possible in a determined world. We might go through the motions but the heart would be out of it.… — Flannery O'Connor
Do not depend on the hope of results. You may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve… — Thomas Merton
The way to get a man interested and to hold his interest was to talk about himself, and then gradually lead the conversation around yourselfâ€”and… — Margaret Mitchell
Without memories, without hope, they lived for the moment only. indeed, the here and now had come to mean everything to them. For there is… — Albert Camus
And when the universe has finished exploding all the stars will slow down, like a ball that has been thrown into the air, and they… — Mark Haddon
It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

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