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One Quotes by Marianne Moore
- As for butterflies, I can hardly conceive of one's attending upon you; but to question the congruence of the complement is vain, if it exists.
- Truly as the sun can rot or mend, love can make one bestial or make a beast a man.
- When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as…
- Among animals, one has a sense of humor. Humor saves a few steps, it saves years.
- I, too, dislike it. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it, after all, a place for the genuine.
- ... imaginary gardens with real toads in them ... ... if you demand on one hand, the raw material of poetry in all its rawness…
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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