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Finding yourself in a hole, at the bottom of a hole, in almost total solitude, and discovering that only writing can save you. To be… — Marguerite Duras
To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks,… — Rainer Maria Rilke
It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty, of insanitation and illiteracy, of superstition and deadening custom and tradition, of… — Jawaharlal Nehru
Each of us is several, is many,is a profusion of selves. So that the self who disdains his surroundings is not the same as the… — Fernando Pessoa
Signs are small measurable things, but interpretations are illimitable, and in girls of sweet, ardent nature, every sign is apt to conjure up wonder, hope,… — George Eliot
The cowardly belief that a person must stay in one place is too reminiscent of the unquestioning resignation of animals, beasts of burden stupefied by… — Isabelle Eberhardt
To exist in this vast universe for a speck of time is the great gift of life. Our tiny sliver of time is our gift… — Terry Goodkind
Each moment from all sides rushes to us the call to love. We are running to contemplate its vast green field. Do you want to… — Unknown Author
Just like a sunbeam can't separate itself from the sun, and a wave can't separate itself from the ocean, we can't separate ourselves from one… — Marianne Williamson
..this indiscriminate love feels entirely serious to her, as if everything in the world is part of a vast, inscrutable intention and everything in the… — Michael Cunningham
Since the Renaissance, people have had to get used to living their life on a random planet in the vast galaxy. — Jostein Gaarder
Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last,… — Oliver Wendell Holmes
There's lots of good fish in the sea...maybe...but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself,… — D. H. Lawrence
Normally, in anything I do, I'm fairly miserable. I do it, and I get grumpy because there is a huge, vast gulf, this aching disparity,… — Neil Gaiman
You’re like a lighthouse shining beside the sea of humanity, motionless: all you can see is your own reflection in the water. You’re alone, so… — Alfred de Musset
We all have a vast number of areas in which we have no talent or skill and little chance of becoming even mediocre. In those… — Peter Drucker
Then when dusk began to settle he would retrace his steps, back to his own world. And on the way home, a loneliness would always… — Haruki Murakami
Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge. — Mark Twain
A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding… — Daniel Handler
Soon enough his head would be swimming with tales of derring-do and high adventure, tales of beautiful maidens kissed, of evildoers shot with pistols or… — Neil Gaiman
I have set off and found that there is no end to even the simplest journey of the mind. I begin, and straight away a… — Jeanette Winterson
The immense accretion of flesh which had descended on her in middle life like a flood of lava on a doomed city had changed her… — Edith Wharton
Into the nothingness of scorn and noise, Into the living sea of waking dreams, Where there is neither sense of life or joys, But the… — John Clare
I can't even dial one phone number right away. But you strained your own body to go and see them. I was surprised. The frightened… — Arina Tanemura
Thus the white men and Native Americans were able, through the spirit of goodwill and compromise, to reach the first in what would become a… — Dave Barry

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