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Into Quotes by Rebecca Solnit
- It is the job of artists to open doors and invite in prophesies, the unknown, the unfamiliar; it’s where their work comes from, although its…
- The bigness of the world is redemption. Despair compresses you into a small space, and a depression is literally a hollow in the ground. To…
- Activism is not a journey to the corner store. It is a plunge into the unknown. The future is always dark.
- The Earth we evolved to inhabit is turning into something more turbulent and unreliable at a pace too fast for most living things to adapt…
- ...[Cabeza de Vaca] ceased to be lost not by returning but by turning into something else.
- For [Jane Austen and the readers of Pride and Prejudice], as for Mr. Darcy, [Elizabeth Bennett's] solitary walks express the independence that literally takes the…
- Cities have always offered anonymity, variety, and conjunction, qualities best basked in by walking: one does not have to go into the bakery or the…
- Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from,…
- How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?" (Plato) The things we want are transformative, and…
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- Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
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