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You can't stand clutter, and you have an obsession with orderliness. The furniture in here is centered exactly on the walls; the files on your… — Judith McNaught
With no surroundings there can be no path, and with no path one cannot become free. — Gary Snyder
People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived in ugly places… — Kurt Vonnegut
A work of art wastes away and becomes lustreless in surroundings where it has a price but not a value. It radiates only when surrounded… — Ernst Junger
To think better, to think like the best humans, we are probably going to have to learn again to judge a person's intelligence, not by… — Wendell Berry
Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid surroundings, a circle of acquaintances who are not quite our enemies, the… — Rachel Carson
[Jesus] matters because of what he brought and what he still brings to ordinary human beings, living their ordinary lives and coping daily with their… — Brennan Manning
We're only passers-by, and all you can do is love what you have in your life. A person has to fight the meanness that sometimes… — Jane Hamilton
She's my friend, the boy said simply. That's who she is and that's enough for me. As Minli looked at the buffalo boy, aglow with… — Grace Lin
After further introductions were made, we settled in the family room. Yes, the living room would have been nicer, but I wanted comfortable surroundings while… — Jeaniene Frost
But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small. — Thomas Hardy
Her writing was her only escape, her only means of survival. It was a respite from a cruel world, despite seemingly comfortable surroundings. — Danielle Steel
Rose and Dimitri moved almost as one entity, like a matched pair of wolfes or lions, both wary and deadly as they studied their surroundings,… — Richelle Mead
The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together but draws them… — Anton Chekhov
To lose yourself: a voluptuous surrender, lost in your arms, lost to the world, utterly immersed in what is present so that its surroundings fade… — Rebecca Solnit
We depend on our surroundings obliquely to embody the moods and ideas we respect and then to remind us of them. We look to our… — Alain de Botton
From an early age she had developed the art of being alone and generally preferred her own company to anyone else’s. She read books at… — Sebastian Faulks
I'm a writer and this is what I do no matter what name we put to it. Year by year, the world is turning into… — Charles de Lint
Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings had… — Thomas Hardy
...by and by a change came: I started to muse about the shape of my nose. I put my trivial surroundings aside and mused more… — Tove Jansson
The worst surroundings in the world can be tolerated if the people in them are interesting and kind. — Daniel Handler
In our hearts... there must abide some pity for those people who have always felt themselves to be separate from even their most familiar surroundings,… — John Irving
No one can control his own opinion or his own belief. My belief was forced upon me by my surroundings. I am the product of… — Robert Green Ingersoll
The art of life is a constant readjustment to our surroundings. — Okakura Kakuzo
There is a myth, sometimes widespread, that a person need only do inner work...that a man is entirely responsible for his own problems; and that… — Christopher Alexander

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