Merely Quotes

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Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not… — James A. Baldwin
When you chose independence over relationship, you became a danger to one another. Others became objects to be manipulated or managed for your own happiness.… — William P. Young
I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing. — Oscar Wilde
So, what do you do when you know you have two days to live? Eat an entire Bitter Chocolate Death cake all by myself. Reread… — Robin McKinley
She stood before him and surrendered herself to him and sky, forest, and brook all came toward him in new and resplendent colors, belonged to… — Hermann Hesse
The pictures do not lie, but neither do they tell the whole story. They are merely a record of time passing, the outward evidence. — Paul Auster
They were still in the happier stage of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph. — Thomas Mann
Nor do we merely feel these essences for one short hour no, even as these trees that whisper round a temple become soon dear as… — John Keats
LIVE. If you live, god will live with you. If you refuse to run his risks, he'll retreat to that distant heaven and be merely… — Paulo Coelho
There's more to clothing than just adornment. It does more than merely change how the world perceives us. It changes how we perceive ourselves. — Jacqueline Carey
I cannot believe that the most delicious things were placed here merely to test us, to temp us, to make it the more difficult for… — Tom Robbins
Nothing fires the warrior’s heart more with courage than to find himself and his comrades at the point of annihilation, at the brink of being… — Steven Pressfield
Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they… — Jorge Luis Borges
People can't seem to get it through their heads that there is never any healing or closure. Ever. There is only a short pause before… — George Carlin
What do they know-all these scholars, all these philosophers, all the leaders of the world - about such as you? They have convinced themselves that… — Isaac Bashevis Singer
There are no events but thoughts and the heart's hard turning, the heart's slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip,… — Annie Dillard
We delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation. It is not… — C.S. Lewis
She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret. — Oscar Wilde
...Men do not sufficiently realize that their future is in their own hands. Theirs is the task of determining first of all whether they want… — Henri Bergson
Further conceive, I beg, that a stone, while continuing in motion, should be capable of thinking and knowing, that it is endeavoring, as far as… — Baruch Spinoza
True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
In the shadow of my hurt, forgiveness feel like a decision to reward my enemy. But in the shadow of the cross, forgiveness is merely… — Andy Stanley
If you want something really important to be done you must not merely satisfy the reason, you must move the heart also. — Mahatma Gandhi
And what would happen if we never read the classics? There comes a point in life, it seems to me, where you have to decide… — Nick Hornby

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