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- On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside with friends after dinner and, yes, read poetry to each other. Keats and…
- You have started the book with this bubble over your head that contains a cathedral full of fire - that contains a novel so vast…
- I was living my own future and my brother's lost one as well. I represented him here just as he represented me there, in some…
- Any other vexations to report?" he asks. "I love the word 'vexations.'" "It's the 'x.' Nice to jump off a 'v' and bite into an…
- A stray fact: insects are not drawn to candle flames, they are drawn to the light on the far side of the flame, they go…
- What she wants to say has to do not only with joy but with the penetrating, constant fear that is joy's other half.
- She is overtaken by a sensation of unbeing. There is no other word for it.
- That is what we do. That is what people do. They stay alive for each other.
More Other Quotes
- . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Friendship is not only about sharing each and everything having long conversation, hanging out, its about having complete trust in each other… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle