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Makes Quotes by Rebecca Solnit
- To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.
- A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs to the imagination.
- 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…
- Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with…
- Beauty is often spoken of as though it only stirs lust or admiration, but the most beautiful people are so in a way that makes…
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- I used too be the girl that would be soo happy to walk into the classroom and say'guess who just walked in… — Jasmine
- Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which… — Matthew Arnold
- Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most damnatory biography… — Mark Twain