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Am I in love? --yes, since I am waiting. The other one never waits. Sometimes I want to play the part of the one who… — Roland Barthes
Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it. — Dallas Willard
Worshiping the Devil is no more insane than worshiping God...It is precisely at the moment when positivism is at its high-water mark that mysticism stirs… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
In so far as the culture industry arouses a feeling of well-being that the world is precisely in that order suggested by the culture industry,… — Theodor Adorno
I hope he has them chasing blue squirrels all day!" Graystripe hissed to Fireheart as they headed toward the corner where a few pieces of… — Erin Hunter
Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is… — Deepak Chopra
It struck me that distant cities are designed precisely so you can know where you came from. — Colum McCann
Love was generous precisely because it could never be immortal. — Peter S. Beagle
...precisely where the land touched water at high tide, where things came together but also separated. — Tim O'Brien
The fundamental problem of political philosophy is still precisely the one that Spinoza saw so clearly (and that Wilhelm Reich rediscovered): Why do men fight… — Gilles Deleuze
The perfect life, the perfect lie, I realised after Christmas, is one which prevents you from doing that which you would ideally have done (painted,… — Geoff Dyer
When, indeed, men speak of Beauty, they mean, precisely, not a quality, as is supposed, but an effect - they refer, in short, just to… — Edgar Allan Poe
More girls were killed in the last 50 years, precisely because they were girls, than men killed in all the wars in the 20th century.… — Nicholas D. Kristof
According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn't speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did. Still, it's… — Abraham Verghese
My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are you will… — Frederick Buechner
Good sense tells us that earthly things are rare and fleeting, and that true reality exists only in dreams. To draw sustenance from happiness- natural… — Charles Baudelaire
If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe. If I wish… — Soren Kierkegaard
and never really thought I'd amount to anything. It was precisely what I wanted the whole world to think; then I could sneak in, if… — Jack Kerouac
Here's the truth you have to wrestle with: the reason that art (writing, engaging, leading, all of it) is valuable is precisely why I can't… — Seth Godin
In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny… — John Stuart Mill

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