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Naked I came into the world, naked I shall go out of it! And a very good thing too, for it reminds…
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It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public…
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Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darkness's.
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Failure or success seems to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting…
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death." "We must be willing to let go of…
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As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must…
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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a…
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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.
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Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an audience of…
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A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which the shifting…
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This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of great importance…
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The test of a round character is whether it is capable of surprising in a convincing way. If it never surprises it…
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Talents of the novelist: ... observation of character, analysis of emotion, people's feelings, personal relations ...
— Virginia Woolf
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Feminism has led the way in demystifying personal relations, forcefully insisting they are political to the core.
— Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
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If one does not practice nonviolence in one's own personal relations with others and hopes to use it in bigger affairs, one…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever, and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.
— E. M. Forster
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Now, the vicissitudes that afflict the individual have their source in society. It is this situation that has given currency to the…
— Aneurin Bevan
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There's often a distressing disconnect between the good words we speak and the way we live our lives. In personal relations and…
— Parker J. Palmer
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It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and…
— Stephen Hawking
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Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire…
— Seamus Heaney
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A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured…
— Bertrand Russell
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I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and…
— Agatha Christie
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