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Our ability to measure and apportion time affords an almost endless source of comfort. — Richard Yates
If diversity is a source of wonder, its opposite - the ubiquitous condensation to some blandly amorphous and singulary generic modern culture that takes for… — Wade Davis
What makes a hero? Courage, strength, morality, withstanding adversity? Are these the traits that truly show and create a hero? Is the light truly the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The humming of my parents' voices from behind my bedroom wall, which throughout my childhood had filled me with a sense of security, had now… — Jeffrey Eugenides
Peculiar or not, it is my idea of pleasure. Why, why else do you lead this life you don't enjoy it? Don't talk of duty… — Barbara Mertz
Your shadow stealthily leaves nothing of where you go, like a poisoned needle that sews together my footsteps. Your light pliantly strikes the water tower,… — Tite Kubo
The longest journey Is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest For the source of his… — Dag Hammarskjold
It is very frustrating not to be understood in this world. If you say one thing and keep being told that you mean something else,… — Daniel Handler
For a time after my divorce everything began to seem profoundly ironic to me. I found myself thinking of other peoples' worries as sources of… — Richard Ford
A child's reaction to this type of calamity is twofold and extreme. Not knowing how deeply, powerfully, life drops anchor into its vast sources of… — Jean Cocteau
That is why embittered people find heroes and madmen a perennial source of fascination, for they have no fear of life or death. Both heroes… — Paulo Coelho
You can't just turn your heart off like a faucet; you have to go to the source and dry it out, drop by drop. — Sarah Dessen
I wondered why it had to be so poisonous. Oleanders could live through anything, they could stand heat, drought, neglect, and put out thousands of… — Janet Fitch
The true source of our sufferings has been our timidity. — John Adams
In the beginning was belief, foolish belief, and faith, empty faith, and illusion, the terrible illusion. ... We believed in God, had faith in man,… — Elie Wiesel
It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and… — Dorothy Parker
On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in her strength, not to escape herself but… — Simone de Beauvoir
If anyone went on for a thousand years asking of life: 'Why are you living?' life, if it could answer, would only say, 'I live… — Meister Eckhart
If it suddenly became impossible for us to cover up all the junk we normally hide from the rest of humanity, I have a feeling… — Andy Stanley
In a world in which there is so much to interest, so much to enjoy, and so much also to correct and improve, everyone who… — John Stuart Mill

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