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97 S Own quotes by 87 unique authors
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Why, oh why must one grow up, why must one inherit this heavy, numbing responsibility of living an undiscovered life? Out of the nothingness and…
— D. H. Lawrence
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If you’re fifteen or so, today, I suspect that you inhabit a sort of endless digital Now, a state of atemporality enabled by our increasingly…
— William Gibson
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Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one’s own and that of other people.
— Leon Trotsky
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America sometimes resembles, at least from the point of view of a black man, an exceedingly monotonous minstrel show; the same dances, same music, same…
— James A. Baldwin
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The realization that my problem was one that concerned all men, a problem of living and thinking, suddenly swept over me and I was overwhelmed…
— Hermann Hesse
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…I never understood until the past months why the Master so often withdrew alone into the wilderness. There is not only food and medicine for…
— Harold Bell Wright
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A bruxis. That was the one wish more powerful than a gavriel, and its trade value was singular: The only way to purchase one was…
— Laini Taylor
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What is this?” he went on now, spearing an unfortunate object on a fork and raising it to eye level. “This… this… thing?” “A parsnip?”…
— Cassandra Clare
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Yes, you make yourself useful, angel boy. Meanwhile, I’ll be in the bathroom.” William’s jet-black hair was dripping wet and plastered to his face. There…
— Gena Showalter
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one must verge on the unknown, write toward the truth hitherto unrecognizable of one’s own sincerity, including the avoidable beauty of doom, shame, and embarrassment,…
— Allen Ginsberg
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I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.
— Virginia Woolf
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Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of one’s own heart.
— Yukio Mishima
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Her honor will come to no harm at my hands,” Jack said. “’Tis not her honor but her tender heart that I worry about,” Alexander…
— Karen Hawkins
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Love is about bottomless empathy, born out of the heart’s revelation that another person is every bit as real as you are. And this is…
— Jonathan Franzen
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Somewhere, right at the bottom of one’s own being, one generally does know where one should go and what one should do. But there are…
— Carl Jung
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The concentration camps, by making death itself anonymous (making it impossible to find out whether a prisoner is dead or alive), robbed death of its…
— Hannah Arendt
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Once more September marveled that even the Dodo knew what she wanted to be when she was grown. She simply could not think what she…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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If evil means to be self-motivated, to be the center of one’s own universe, to live on one’s own terms, then every artist, every thinker,…
— Janet Fitch
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I believe each human being has the potential to change, to transform one’s own attitude, no matter how difficult the situation.
— Dalai Lama
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One cannot simply read the Bible, like other books. One must be prepared really to enquire of it. Only thus will it reveal itself. Only…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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one does not remember one’s own pain. It is the suffering of others that undoes us
— Anna Funder
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What is understanding? -- understanding is pure intelligence. That pure intelligence is originally yours; you are born with it. Nobody can give you intelligence. Knowledge…
— Osho
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