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Why can't reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? Why such a vast net… — Yann Martel
On our earth, before writing was invented, before the printing press was invented, poetry flourished. That is why we know that poetry is like bread;… — Pablo Neruda
She turned her face seaward to gather in an impression of space and solitude, which the vast expanse of water, meeting and melting with the… — Kate Chopin
We are shaped not only by our current geography but by our ancestral one as well. Americans, for instance, retain a frontier spirit even though… — Eric Weiner
Maybe love, too, is beautiful because it has a wildness that cannot be tamed. I don't know. All I know is that passion can take… — Deb Caletti
It was at this point that Bilbo stopped. Going on from there was the bravest thing he ever did. The tremendous things that happened afterward… — J.R.R. Tolkien
how wearisom Eternity so spent in worship paid To whom we hate. Let us not then pursue By force impossible, by leave obtain'd Unacceptable, though… — John Milton
...failure is a human condition, not victory over odds; for each Hellen Keller who triumphs, there are tens of millions who fail, mute and deaf… — Joyce Carol Oates
The world of the Takers is one vast prison, and except for a handful of Leavers scattered across the world, the entire human race is… — Daniel Quinn
When you abandon making choices, you enter the vast world of excuses. — Wayne Dyer
A child's reaction to this type of calamity is twofold and extreme. Not knowing how deeply, powerfully, life drops anchor into its vast sources of… — Jean Cocteau
Not as the plants and flowers of Earth, growing peacefully beneath a simple sun, were the blossoms of the planet Lophai. Coiling and uncoiling in… — Clark Ashton Smith
Brooding, she changed the pool into the sea, and made the minnows into sharks and whales, and cast vast clouds over this tiny world by… — Virginia Woolf
Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was… — Hermann Hesse
Our civilization has fallen out of touch with night. With lights, we drive the holiness and beauty of night back to the forests and the… — Henry Beston
The god which the vast majority of professing Christians love is looked upon very much like an indulgent old man, who himself has no relish… — Arthur W. Pink
protected businesses never, never become competitive ... Halliburton, Bechtel, Parsons, KPMG, RTI, Blackwater and all other U.S. corporations that were in Iraq to take advantage… — Naomi Klein
For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing. Behind him, across vast distances of space and… — Lois Lowry
I stopped wanting to float away from my life, because in the end my life was all I had. I'd walk the Fairmont campus and… — Nick Burd
So, I looked up, and we were in this giant dome like a glass snowball, and Mark said that the amazing white stars were really… — Stephen Chbosky
Sitting on the floor, I'd replay the past in my head. Funny, that's all I did, day after day after day for half a year,… — Haruki Murakami
The internet was supposed to liberate knowledge, but in fact it buried it, first under a vast sewer of ignorance, laziness, bigotry, superstition and filth… — Ben Elton
In recent years my understanding of God had evolved into increasingly remote abstractions. I'd come to think of God in terms like Divine Reality, the… — Sue Monk Kidd
I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted. — Jack Kerouac
I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her commodious harbors and her ample rivers, and it was not there; in her fiertile… — W. Cleon Skousen

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