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A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the soil, has his… — Wendell Berry
The way I see it,â€ she began, â€œyour motherâ€™s devoted her whole life to you kids.â€ She said â€œyou kidsâ€ in precisely the same tone… — Jennifer Weiner
Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes… — Neil Gaiman
The Conservative does not despise government. He despises tyranny. This is precisely why the Conservative reveres the Constitution and insists on adherence to it. — Mark Levin
Perhaps, indeed, there are no truly universal ethics: or to put it more precisely, the ways in which ethical principles are interpreted will inevitably differ… — Howard Gardner
Over and above the various prejudices I acknowledge, the affinities I feel, the attractions I succumb to, the events which occur to me and to… — Andre Breton
It wasn't only that you didn't see him anymore, meet him anymore. You saw his absence and encountered it as something tangible. His not being… — Pascal Mercier
This pleasure comes precisely from the sharpest awareness of your own degradation; from the knowledge that you have gone to the utmost limit; that it… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
But it's precisely in this cold, loathsome half-despair, half-belief, in this deliberate burying of yourself underground for forty years out of sheer pain, in this… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I sometimes think love consists precisely of the voluntary gift by the loved object of the right to tyrannize over it. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
What about books? Well, precisely because you have denied it in every other field, you believe you may still grant yourself legitimately this youthful pleasure… — Italo Calvino
This symmetrical composition--the same motif at the beginning and at the end--may seem quite "novelistic" to you, and I am willing to agree, but only… — Milan Kundera
Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless… — Jorge Luis Borges
[She] knew that it was not precisely a body that one loved. One loved the man who shone out through the eyes and used its… — Louis de Bernieres
Learning to endure times of disappointment, suffering, and sorrow is part of our on-the-job training. These experiences, while often difficult to bear at the time,… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
Know, then, that now, precisely now, these people are more certain than ever before that they are completely free, and at the same time they… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
It's as if scientists exert every effort of will they possess deliberately to find the least significant problems in the world and explain them. Art… — Stephen Fry
Each photograph is read as the private appearance of its referent: the age of Photography corresponds precisely to the explosion of the private into the… — Roland Barthes
Memory is the great deceiver. Perhaps there are some individuals whose memories act like tape recordings, daily records of their lives complete in every detail,… — Neil Gaiman
It was titillating to brush up against the enigma of mortality, to steal a glimpse across its forbidden frontier. Climbing was a magnificient activity, I… — Jon Krakauer

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