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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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One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.
— Albert Camus
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The attitude of saints toward their possessions most assuredly signifies whether they continue to preserve their self life or whether they have…
— Watchman Nee
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A word is elegy to what it signifies.
— Robert Hass
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On the altar you are looking at the same thing as you saw there last night. You have not heard, however, what…
— Saint Augustine
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Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness.
— J. Frank Dobie
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What signifies, says some one, giving halfpence to beggars? they only lay it out in gin or tobacco. "And why should they…
— Hester Lynch Piozzi
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Learn punctuation; it is your little drum set, one of the few tools oyu have to signal the reader where the beats…
— Annie Dillard
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It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love.
— William Shakespeare
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A miracle signifies nothing more than an event... the cause of which cannot be explained by another familiar instance, or.... which the…
— Baruch Spinoza
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Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is…
— John Ruskin
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Knowledge of one's identity, one's self, community, nation, religion, and God, is the true meaning of resurrection, while ignorance of it signifies…
— Elijah Muhammad
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In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will…
— Alain Badiou
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