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Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.
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Something of the previous state, however, survives every change. This is called in the language of cybernetics (which took it form the…
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The birds suffer their suffering each in a lifetime, forgetting it as they go.
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Art is always the replacement of indifference by attention.
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A work of art is a form that articulates forces, making them intelligible.
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We will always return to the private and inviolable act of reading as our culture's way of developing an individual.
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There are many objects of desire, and therefore many desires. Some are born with us, hunger, yearning, and pride of place, and…
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In curved Einsteinian space we are at all times, technically, looking at the back of our own head.
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It is worthwhile adding that the power of the poem to teach not only sensibilities and the subtle movements of the spirit…
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I’ve carved the puppet, and I manipulate the strings, but while it’s on stage, the show belongs to the puppet.
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Originality houses many rooms, and the views from the windows are all different.
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When Heraclitus said that everything passes steadily along, he was not inciting us to make the best of the moment, an idea…
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I would ask every man and every woman who's had the blessing of having children, 'Would you deny your son or your…
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There are many objects of desire, and therefore many desires. Some are born with us, hunger, yearning, and pride of place, and…
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I forbid you, agnostic, doubting thoughts, to destroy the house of my faith.
— Thomas S. Monson
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Too much of water hast thou poor Ophelia, and therefore I forbid my tears. But yet it is our trick, let shame…
— William Shakespeare
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It can’t eat him. I forbid it. (Artemis) She can do as she pleases. I taught her to waste not, want not.…
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You're not going to die. I forbid it. All right?" "All right," he whispers.
— Suzanne Collins
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What’s wrong with you? Are you ill? I forbid you to be ill, wife.
— Gail Carriger
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Tears stung her eyes. She sank her knees next to the sleeping bench and gently raked strands of golden hair from him…
— Cinda Williams Chima
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Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears.
— William Shakespeare
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What? You mean to travel almost five hundred miles alone? No. I can’t let you do that. I . . . I…
— Tessa Dare
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