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Things Quotes by Jenny Offill
- My plan was to never get married. I was going to be an art monster instead. Women almost never become art monsters because art monsters…
- A thought experiment courtesy of the Stoics. If you are tired of everything you possess, imagine that you have lost all these things.
- But now it seems possible that the truth about getting older is that there are fewer and fewer things to make fun of until finally…
- One of the odd things about being a writer is that you never reach a point of certainty, a point of mastery where you can…
- I have a slightly contrarian streak as a writer, and one of the things I was interested in was how distilled could I make a…
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- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle