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- Unfortunately, nature is very much a now-you-see-it, now-you-don't affair. A fish flashes, then dissolves in the water before my eyes like so much salt. Deer…
- The gaps are the thing. The gaps are the spirit's one home, the altitudes and latitudes so dazzlingly spare and clean that the spirit can…
- If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair... or go into business. You’ve got to jump off cliffs and build your…
- The universe is illusion merely, not one speck of it real, and we are not only its victims, falling always into or smashed by a…
- Art is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic.
- Hasidism has a tradition that one of man's purposes is to assist God in the work of redemption by "hallowing" the things of creation. By…
- Our family was on the lunatic fringe. My mother was always completely irrepressible. My father made crowd noises into a microphone.
- It makes more sense to write one big book - a novel or nonfiction narrative - than to write many stories or essays. Into a…
- Like any child, I slid into myself perfectly fitted, as a diver meets her reflection in a pool. Her fingertips enter the fingertips on the…
- Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf.…
- He judged the instant and let go; he flung himself loose into the stars.
- She is nine, beloved, as open-faced as the sky and as self-contained. I have watched her grow. As recently as three or four years ago,…
- Love so sprang at her, she honestly thought no one had ever looked into it. Where was it in literature? Someone would have written something.…
- How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we…
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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there. — Richard Bach
- It's actually amazing because you go so far into another side of your brain when you're studying something completely different, and I… — Dido Armstrong
- If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life. — Karen Armstrong
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to… — Karen Armstrong
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