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367 quotes by 294 authors

Out of its squalor and human decay, its eruptions of butchery, India produced so many people of grace and beauty, ruled by elaborate courtesy. Producing… — V.S. Naipaul
We have all been expelled from the Garden, but the ones who suffer most in exile are those who are still permitted to dream of… — Stanley Kunitz
The young, free to act on their initiative, can lead their elders in the direction of the unknown... The children, the young, must ask the… — Margaret Mead
Literature cannot develop between the categories "permitted"â€”"not permitted"â€”"this you can and that you can't." Literature that is not the air of its contemporary society, that… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Science manipulates things and gives up living in them. It makes its own limited models of things; operating upon these indices or variables to effect… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
All I ask is that my final months be happy ones, and that I be permitted a husband who will see to my proper Christian… — Seth Grahame-Smith
Under Colonel Korn's rule, the only people permitted to ask questions were those who never did. — Joseph Heller
Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected? — Louis de Bernieres
The modern materialists are not permitted to doubt; they are forbidden to believe. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
In so far as it takes effect at all, pacifist propaganda can only be effective against those countries where a certain amount of freedom of… — George Orwell
We see our sins reflected everywhere: in the pallor of our intimatesâ€™ faces, in the scratching of tree branches against windows, in the strange movements… — Anna Godbersen
By declaring our Prophet infallible and not permitting ourselves to question him, we Muslims had set up a static tyranny. The Prophet Muhammad attempted to… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
I beg your pardon for questioning your judgement," she said. "It is nothing to me, after all, if it proves faulty. I am not the… — Loretta Chase
And this is the strangest of all paradoxes of the human adventure; we live inside all experience, but we are permitted to bear witness only… — Howard Thurman
The judge placed his hands on the ground. He looked at his inquisitor. This is my claim, he said. And yet everywhere upon it are… — Cormac McCarthy
One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is… — John Fowles
But I still wonder how it was possible, in those graceless years of transition, long ago, that men did not see whither they were going,… — Ayn Rand
[death]...the abyss from where no traveler is permitted to return — George Washington
Meliorn looked impassive. "Mundane humans are not permitted in the Court." "I wish someone had mentioned that earlier," said Simon, to no one in particular.… — Cassandra Clare
Existence alone had never been enough for him; he had always wanted more. Perhaps it was only from the force of his desires that he… — Fyodor Dostoevsky

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