Separate Quotes
1552 quotes by 1173 authors
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And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
— Edgar Allan Poe
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It was the Magic Hour, the moment in time when every leaf and blade of grass seemed to separate, when sunlight, burnished by the rain…
— Kristin Hannah
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We have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention.
— John Keats
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And there are a million possibilities. Like the possibility of going separate ways. Together.
— Susane Colasanti
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Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, and own brother Jove? Surely all this…
— Herman Melville
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...'I thought the rule was that all monks were shaved.' 'Oh, Soto says he is bald under the hair,'said Lu Tze. 'He says the hair…
— Terry Pratchett
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Man has no individual i. But there are, instead, hundreds and thousands of separate small "i"s, very often entirely unknown to one another, never coming…
— G I Gurdjieff
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We spend our lives getting caught up in all the wrong things--led astray by our minds, our egos, seeing ourselves as separate from each other,…
— Alyson Noel
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…'It always has to end, doesn't it? We always have to separate.' 'Yes,' I said. He was insistent, 'But it doesn't always have to be…
— Sylvia Plath
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I could hear you, talking to the daffodils and tulips, whispering to the fairies that lived inside their petals. Each separate flower had a different…
— Lucy Christopher
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Both of us will die today, gunned down or smashed up or exploded in some terrible moment of fire and twisted metal, and when they…
— Lauren Oliver
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When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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It is a kiss that, once begun, never really ends. Interrupted, yes. Paused, certainly. But from that very moment onward, Vera sees the whole of…
— Kristin Hannah
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They are enthusiasts, devotees. Addicts. Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent. They seek each other…
— Erin Morgenstern
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After all everybody, that is, everybody who writes is interested in living inside themselves in order to tell what is inside themselves. That is why…
— Gertrude Stein
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You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your perception...you see what is, where most people see what they expect.
— Tsitsi Dangarembga
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Your body does not eliminate poisons by knowing their names. To try to control fear or depression or boredom by calling them names is to…
— Alan Watts
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To remain stable is to refrain from trying to separate yourself from a pain because you know that you cannot. Running away from fear is…
— Alan Watts
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There are problems and there are children. It is our aim to separate the two.
— Anthony Horowitz
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Here is the vicious circle: if you feel separate from your organic life, you feel driven to survive; survival -going on living- thus becomes a…
— Alan Watts
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