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Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard…
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If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of…
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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept or…
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Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
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Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
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The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial side; has…
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One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol…
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Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
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The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
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A little praise goes a great ways.
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I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different…
— Barbara Hepworth
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Existence is this, I thought, a start of joy, a stab of pain, an intense pleasure, veins that pulse under the skin,…
— Elena Ferrante
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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
— Evelyn Waugh
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The exercise of all the senses is as intense pleasure, as anyone will find, who recovers the use of one after being…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There are moments when I am writing when I think that if other people knew how I felt right now, they’d burn…
— Anne Lamott
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We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself.
— Sigmund Freud
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I gallop and jump and ride young horses with intense pleasure.
— Jane Smiley
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Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to go to Oberlin and wanted the liberal arts. Obviously I really get intense…
— Jeremy Denk
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