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Believing ourselves to be possessors of absolute truth degrades us: we regard every person whose way of thinking is different from ours…
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Solitude lies at the lowest depth of the human condition. Man is the only being who feels himself to be alone and…
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Changes are inseparable from democracy. To defend democracy is to defend the possibility of change; in turn, changes alone can strengthen democracy.
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Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only…
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A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.
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Today we all speak, if not the same tongue, the same universal language. There is no one center, and time has lost…
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Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a…
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Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being because he sometimes speaks. Language is…
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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.
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The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood to an…
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Poet: gardener of epitaphs.
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What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing…
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Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.
— Walter Raleigh
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Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away.
— Philip Sidney
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These are the things I prize And hold of dearest worth: Light of the sapphire skies, Peace of the silent hills, Shelter…
— Henry Van Dyke
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Trust in the inexhaustible character of the murmur.
— Andre Breton
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When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes.
— Thomas Brooks
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It is natural for every man uninstructed to murmur at his condition, because, in the general infelicity of life, he feels his…
— Samuel Johnson
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I am afraid, ... that health begins, after seventy, and often long before, to have a meaning different from that which it…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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Then what shall I write? I can't just write that this happened then this happened then this happened to boring infinitum. I'll…
— David Almond
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Lovers O lovers, lovers it is time to set out from the world. I hear a drum in my soul's ear coming…
— Rumi
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I do not murmur, even if my heart break.
— Heinrich Heine
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See, they return; ah, see the tentative Movements, and the slow feet, The trouble in the pace and the uncertain Wavering! See,…
— Ezra Pound
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Whenever I sit with a bowl of soup before me, listening to the murmur that penetrates like the distant song of an…
— Junichiro Tanizaki
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