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[Kafka] transformed the profoundly antipoetic material of a highly bureaucratized society into the great poetry of the novel; he transformed a very ordinary story of… — Milan Kundera
Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given to him, its sustenance is… — Ayn Rand
...beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments. — Jean Genet
. . . the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The men and women, who desire to obtain seats in the celestial kingdom, will find that they must battle everyday. — Brigham Young
We cannot know what faith is if we have never had it, and we cannot obtain it as long as we deny it. Faith and… — Thomas S. Monson
I’ve worked with volunteers before,” he began. “It’s important not to… not to treat them like servants. We may feel that they are laboring to… — Ken Follett
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses… — Edgar Allan Poe
There is lust and then there is love. They are related, but still very different things. To indulge in one requires little but honeyed speech… — Anne Fortier
For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results? It is foolish even to desire it. — Euripides
We may please ourselves with the prospect of free and popular governments. But there is great danger that those governments will not make us happy.… — John Adams
The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt… — John Stuart Mill
...men endeavor to sink us still lower, merely to render us alluring objects for a moment; and women, intoxicated by the adoration which men, under… — Mary Wollstonecraft
Grace is my favourite church word. A state of being. Something you can pray for. Something God can grant. Something you can obtain. Perfection is… — Elizabeth Scott
To obtain victory by any means and with any weapon. — Chris Bradford
‎"Intellect is the knowledge obtained by experience of names and forms; wisdom is the knowledge which manifests only from the inner being; to acquire intellect… — Hazrat Inayat Khan
Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence, the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Be contented with what you possess in life; be thankful for what does not belong to you, for it is so much care the less;… — Hazrat Inayat Khan
If we only look far enough off for the consequence of our actions, we can always find some point in the combination of results by… — George Eliot
from you, my dear Erasmus, let me obtain this request, that just as I bear with your ignorance in these matters, so you in turn… — Martin Luther
Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire. — Dan Brown
And yet, anything real, anything strong, was never easy. She'd been taught from an early age that the things that mattered most were the hardest… — Nora Roberts
No one can obtain felicity by pursuit. This explains why one of the elements of being happy is the feeling that a debt of gratitude… — Josef Pieper
Girls developed eating disorders when our culture developed a standard of beauty that they couldn't obtain by being healthy. When unnatural thinness became attractive, girls… — Mary Pipher

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