Gradually Quotes

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Adults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they're able to handle it. The children get overwhelmed by the tasks in front of… — Haruki Murakami
It is said that what is called "the spirit of an age" is something to which one cannot return. That this spirit gradually dissipates is… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
But it is possible, it is possible: the old grief, by a great mystery of human life, gradually passes into quiet, tender joy; instead of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
...and gradually his face assumed the expressions which are so often found among rich people - the expressions of discontent, of sickliness, of displeasure, of… — Hermann Hesse
Earth is ancient now, but all knowledge is stored up in her. She keeps a record of everything that has happened since time began. Of… — Jeanette Winterson
When our inner child is not nurtured and nourished, our minds gradually close to new ideas, unprofitable commitments and the surprises of the Spirit. — Brennan Manning
We will gradually become indifferent to what goes on in the minds of other people when we acquire a knowledge of the superficial nature of… — Arthur Schopenhauer
The past is not a peaceful landscape lying there behind me, a country in which I can stroll wherever I please, and will gradually show… — Simone de Beauvoir
I suppose [my life] has most resembled a blue chip stock: fairly stable, more ups than downs, and gradually trending upward over time. A good… — Nicholas Sparks
Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, not between classes, nor between political parties, but… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Religion was fading into the background. He had shovelled away all the beliefs that would hamper him, had cleared the ground, and come more or… — D. H. Lawrence
How did you go bankrupt?" Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly. — Ernest Hemingway
Gradually my whole concept of time changed until I thought of a month as having twenty-five days of humanness and five others when I might… — Florence King
live in the space between chaos and shape. I walk the line that continually threatens to lose its tautness under me, dropping me into the… — Jeanette Winterson
Perhaps if they had stayed together longer, Sabina and Franz would have begun to understand the words they used. Gradually, timorously, their vocabularies would have… — Milan Kundera
Now, bitterly, with one sweep of the front door, the compassion was spent. To the degree that Lawrence's face was familiar, it was killingly so… — Lionel Shriver
There is a classic moment in â€˜The Sun Also Risesâ€™ when someone asks Mike Campbell how he went bankrupt, and all he can say in… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
â€¦Itâ€™s like a spiral: They keep making everything more basic so it will appeal to everyone. And gradually, everyone gets used to everything being basic,… — Matthew Tobin Anderson
I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and… — Charles Dickens
It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth. — Vincent Van Gogh

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