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It's strange. There's your life. You begin it, feeling that it's something so precious and rare, so beautiful that it's like a sacred treasure. Now… — Ayn Rand
I understood that I was inventing myself, and that I was doing this more in the way of a painter than in the way of… — Jamaica Kincaid
The right to freedom is the gift of God Almighty....The rights of the Colonists as Christians may be best understood by reading, and carefully studying… — Samuel Adams
They enveloped each other within the folds of their thoughts, holding each other with an intimacy no physical embrace could replicate, allowing their identities to… — Christopher Paolini
...she could express her soul with that voice, whenver I listened to her I felt my life meant more than mere biology...she could really hear,… — Audrey Niffenegger
Like the teens I worked with, I understood the need for miracles--they kept reality from paralyzing you — Jodi Picoult
Understanding human nature must be the basis of any real improvement in human life. Science has done wonders in mastering the laws of the physical… — Bertrand Russell
For the value of everything exists for man only so long as he does not understand it. When he has fully understood, the value is… — Hazrat Inayat Khan
She asked him to come and see her that night. He agreed, in order to get away, knowing that he was incapable of going. But… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about life—they have never felt its breath, its heartbeat—however much they have seen… — Boris Pasternak
when i reached the bottom, i finally understood what Guthrie meant when he shouted, "LIBERO!" It was a celebration of being alive — Sharon Creech
Our stares connected and we were quiet for a long minute, united by our misery. At least he understood me and I understood him. "A… — Ilona Andrews
When reading a book, be very certain that you never go past a word you do not fully understand. The only reason a person gives… — L. Ron Hubbard
She had learned, in her life, that time lived inside you. You are time, you breathe time. When she'd been young, she'd had an insatiable… — David Wroblewski
He would talk to them of stories and books, and explain to them how stories wanted to be told and books wanted to be read,… — John Connolly
Exhaustion was pressing upon and overpowering her. "Good-by--because I love you." He did not know; he did not understand. He would never understand. Perhaps Doctor… — Kate Chopin
...at last I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had. — Brenda Ueland
He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood… — Jodi Picoult
Although she had resisted this knowledge all her life, had lived determinedly in the future focused there by ambition, she understood at last that this… — Dean Koontz
The regime had understood that one person leaving her house while asking herself: Are my trousers long enough?' Is my veil in place?' Can my… — Marjane Satrapi
In most polls there are always about 5 percent of the people who 'don't know.' What isn't generally understood is that it's the same people… — George Carlin
6.4311 Der Tod ist kein Ereignis des Lebens. Den Tod erlebt man nicht. Wenn man unter Ewigkeit nicht unendliche Zeitdauer, sondern Unzeitlichkeit versteht, dann lebt… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Hughes: (Talking for Mustang) 'I won't allow you to die under my jurisdiction because it'd be a pain to clean up the mess.' That's what… — Hiromu Arakawa
Have read little and understood less. — James Joyce
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

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