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Art is a gift: you create and then you give away. How readers receive that gift is their business. If they hate…
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A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly,…
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If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others.…
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Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with a few…
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A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them…
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Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the…
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If you don't have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from…
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My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth. I chose the sloth because its demeanour…
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Sometimes I got my majors mixed up. A number of my fellow religious-studies students - muddled agnostics who didn't know which way…
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When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remission beyond the human,…
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It is a vast country, so that inspires you. It's also the greatest hotel on earth: It welcomes people from everywhere. It's…
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Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness.…
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Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other…
— James Allen
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I've noticed your hostility towards him... I ought to have guessed you were friends.
— Malcolm Bradbury
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The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the…
— Auguste Rodin
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Men universally are ungrateful towards him who instructs them, unless, in the hours or in the intervals of instruction, he presents a…
— Walter Savage Landor
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There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him,…
— Elias Canetti
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To love our enemy is impossible. The moment we understand our enemy, we feel compassion towards him/her, and he/she is no longer…
— Nhat Hanh
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What identifies an individual as a king is how other people behave towards him. All authority is assumed, and if other people…
— Patrick Stewart
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O my people, I disavow all that you associate [with God]. I orient my face with an exclusive orientation towards Him, who…
— Abdelkader El Djezairi
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Either the translator leaves the author in peace, as much as is possible, and moves the reader towards him: or he leaves…
— Friedrich Schleiermacher
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The gift moves towards the empty place. As it turns in its circle it turns towards him who has been empty-handed the…
— Lewis Hyde
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Accept the risen Jesus into your life. Even if you have been far away, take a small step towards Him. He awaits…
— Pope Francis
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My attitude towards him is an attitude towards a soul. I am not of the opinion that he has a soul. .…
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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