Gradually Quotes

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How does the ordinary person come to the transcendent? For a start, I would say, study poetry. Learn how to read a poem. You need… — Joseph Campbell
The conflict will always beyond ur strength.The enemy always pushes us beyond our personal, inbred, preset limits concerning how far we'll go for God:"Here's how… — Francis Frangipane
I half closed my eyes and imagined this was the spot where everything I'd ever lost since my childhood had washed up, and I was… — Kazuo Ishiguro
Gradually I came to realize that my understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasure is concerned. — Charles Bukowski
With the beginning of life, comes the thirst for truth, whereas the ability to lie is gradually acquired in the process of trying to stay… — Gao Xingjian
She had gradually changed her name. "Jane" was too dull. Last year, she'd added a "y", becoming Jayne, which had more personality. — Caroline B. Cooney
When dawn comes, that memory gradually distances...Tonight, I will bring it to sleep with me, so that will not be taken away by the waves… — Ai Yazawa
There are moments in your life when the big pieces slide and shift. Sometimes the big changes dong happen gradually but all at once. That's… — Ann Brashares
I spent thirty-three years in another man's shadow. I went everywhere he went, I helped him with everything he did. I was in a sense… — Haruki Murakami
March came in that winter like the meekest and mildest of lambs, bringing days that were crisp and golden and tingling, each followed by a… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
A wound in the soul, coming from the rending of the spiritual body, strange as it may seem, gradually closes like a physical wound. And… — Leo Tolstoy
The Master created humans first as the lowest type, most easily formed. Gradually, he replaced them by robots, the next higher step, and finally he… — Isaac Asimov
The secret to being alone is to organize your time; to develop habits and routines and gradually elevate their importance to where they seem almost… — Daniel Clowes
Let me tell you something you havenâ€™t learned yet, something you learn only by living awhile. As you get older, you find that life begins… — Terry Brooks
I have always shook with fright before human beings. Unable as I was to feel the least particle of confidence in my ability to speak… — Osamu Dazai
Finally, by the sea, where God is everywhere, I gradually calmed. — Patti Smith
Gradually, I began to resent Christian school and doubt everything I was told. It became clear that the suffering they were praying to be released… — Marilyn Manson
Long, blue, spiky-edged shadows crept out across the snow-fields, while a rosy glow, at first scarce discernible, gradually deepened and suffused every mountain-top, flushing the… — John Muir
Now even if I die, no one will be so grieved as to do himself bodily harm. No [...] I know just how much sadness… — Osamu Dazai
Many years have passed since that night. The wall of the staircase up which I had watched the light of his candle gradually climb was… — Marcel Proust

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