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I can hear the sizzle of newborn stars, and know anything of meaning, of the fierce magic emerging here. I am witness to flexible eternity,… — Joy Harjo
There is a great good in returning to a landscape that has had extraordinary meaning in one's life. It happens that we return to such… — N. Scott Momaday
When a character is born, he acquires at once such an independence, even of his own author, that he can be imagined by everybody even… — Luigi Pirandello
In good novelistic fashion, the discovery I’ve made is that it’s complicated. I think that’s one of good things about exploring these questions in a… — Hari Kunzru
For 12 long years I lived within the narrow-minded confines of the 'straightjacket world' created by my strong belief that Elijah Muhammad was a messenger… — Malcolm X
I shall never rest until I have undone the harm I did to so many well-meaning, innocent Negroes who through my own evangelistic zeal now… — Malcolm X
Knowledge of one's identity, one's self, community, nation, religion, and God, is the true meaning of resurrection, while ignorance of it signifies hell. — Elijah Muhammad
Sometimes thou seem'st not as thyself alone, But as the meaning of all things that are. — Dante Gabriel Rossetti
You don't know what love is, until you've learned the meaning of the blues, until you've loved a love you've had to lose. — Chet Baker
My life, the most truthful one, is unrecognizable, extremely interior, and there is no single word that gives it meaning. — Clarice Lispector
I write every paragraph four times - once to get my meaning down, once to put in anything I have left out, once to take… — Margery Allingham
Was there any meaning to life or to war, that two men should sit together and jump within seconds of each other and yet never… — David Kenyon Webster
You don’t have the slightest idea of what it means to write a scene and a character in the English language, with images and words… — Jonathan Lethem
We do not understand democracy in its bourgeois meaning--of babbling, lack of discipline, anarchy. We understand democracy as the active participation of the citizens in… — Nicolae Ceausescu
The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do… — Don DeLillo
Words have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbits and enter a wider magnetic field. No one… — David Lehman
When we don't allow ourselves to hope, we don't allow ourselves to have purpose. Without purpose, without meaning, life is dark. We've no light within,… — Dean Koontz
When you know that something's going to happen, you'll start trying to see signs of its approach in just about everything. Always try to remember… — David Eddings
GET RID OF MEANING. YOUR MIND IS A NIGHTMARE THAT HAS BEEN EATING YOU: NOW EAT YOUR MIND. — Kathy Acker
Artistic creation, after all, is not subject to absolute laws, valid from age to age; since it is related to the more general aim of… — Andrei Tarkovsky
The meaning of religious truth is hope — Andrei Tarkovsky
Relating a person to the whole world: that is the meaning of cinema. — Andrei Tarkovsky
Ever since ROME, OPEN CITY, I have maintained a conscious, determined endeavor to try to understand the world in which I live, in a spirit… — Roberto Rossellini
The companies that are successful, they start out to make meaning, not to make money. — Guy Kawasaki
Most people have learned to live in the moment. The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on the present, there is no… — Alan Lightman

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