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Something amazing happens when the rest of the world is sleeping. I am glued to my chair. I forget that I ever…
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I, on the other hand, believe that books, maps, scissors, and Scotch tape dispensers are all unreliable vagrants, likely to take off…
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For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.
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Our view of reality is only a view, not reality itself.
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It is a grave error to assume that ice cream consumption requires hot weather.
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If the soul cannot find its jacket. it is condemned to an eternity of wandering--naked and alone
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One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [...] a book belongs to the reader as well as to…
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Muses are fickle, and many a writer, peering into the voice, has escaped paralysis by ascribing the creative responsibility to a talisman:…
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In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.
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Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on…
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It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious completely unrelated…
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A philosophy professor at my college, whose baby became enamored of the portrait of David Hume on a Penguin paperback, had the…
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My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered…
— Teresa of Avila
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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.
— Francis Bacon
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Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized…
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The truth is, of course, that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy is perfected in political economy.…
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All skills are perfected through the process of failure. Embrace loss as a necessary part of improvement.
— Jerry Lynch
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Trust perfected is prayer perfected. Trust looks to receive the thing asked for and gets it. Trust is not a belief that…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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Love has been taken away from the poets, and has been brought within the domain of true science. It may prove to…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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We just want Jews to be perfected, as they say.
— Ann Coulter
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This perfected body can be compared to a mirror, and the human spirit to the sun. Nevertheless, if the mirror breaks, the…
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Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to…
— Sam Abell
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The woman is perfected. Her dead Body wears the smile of accomplishment.
— Sylvia Plath
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In your training, do not be in a hurry, for it takes a minimum of ten years to master the basics and…
— Morihei Ueshiba
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