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It was odd, she thought, how if one was alone, one leant to inanimate things; trees, streams, flowers; felt they expressed one; felt they became…

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To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half…
If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've…
Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a…
I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see…
If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very…
King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good…
It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what…
To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how can we…
The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.

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Physical science enjoys the distinction of being the most fundamental of the experimental sciences, and its laws are obeyed universally, so far… — Frederick Soddy
A river is the most human and companionable of all inanimate things. It has a life, a character, a voice of its… — Henry Van Dyke
Yet is it possible in terms of the motion of atoms to explain how men can invent an electric motor, or design… — Arthur Compton
Music is one of the only inanimate things we have left. It can still be mystical, magical and awe-inspiring — Nelly Furtado
People say to you, 'you've changed', or something like that, well, I hope, for the sake of God, that you have changed,… — Hamza Yusuf
We declare that only man exists. This is not to say that material, inorganic nature and nonhuman beings-animals and plants-are in any… — Medard Boss
The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all. — William Dean Howells
The true poet is a friendly man. He takes to his arms even cold and inanimate things, and rejoices in his heart. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It was odd, she thought, how if one was alone, one leant to inanimate things; trees, streams, flowers; felt they expressed one;… — Virginia Woolf
There are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things-books, pictures and the face of nature. — William Hazlitt
Emotions are not just inanimate things, such as diamond, gold, gadgets, but no less emotional attachment to these human — Mak_786

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