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Only Quotes by Rebecca Solnit
- The things we want are transformative, and we don’t know or only think we know what is on the other side of that transformation Never…
- The object we call a book is not the real book, but its seed or potential, like a music score. It exists fully only in…
- The poet Marianne Moore famously wrote of 'real toads in imaginary gardens,' and the labyrinth offers us the possibility of being real creatures in symbolic…
- [In mountaineering, if] we look for private experience rather than public history, even getting to the top becomes an optional narrative rather than the main…
- Some things we have only as long as they remain lost, some things are not lost only so long as they are distant.
- In her novel Regeneration, Pat Barker writes of a doctor who 'knew only too well how often the early stages of change or cure may…
- The famous Zen parable about the master for whom, before his studies, mountains were only mountains, but during his studies mountains were no longer mountains,…
- Cities have always offered anonymity, variety, and conjunction, qualities best basked in by walking: one does not have to go into the bakery or the…
- You write your books. You scatter your seeds. Rats might eat them, or they might rot. In California, some seeds lie dormant for decades because…
- How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?" (Plato) The things we want are transformative, and…
- Beauty is often spoken of as though it only stirs lust or admiration, but the most beautiful people are so in a way that makes…
- A book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another.
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- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Creation is not a property, which we can rule over at will; or, even less, is the property of only a few:… — Pope Francis