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We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our… — Hermann Hesse
we must take care of our families wherever we find them. — Elizabeth Gilbert
Are cats strange animals or do they so resemble us that we find them curious as we do monkeys? — John Steinbeck
For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It's always our self we find in the sea. — E E Cummings
There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails,… — Jane Austen
If we examine every stage of our lives, we find that from our first breath to our last we are under the constraint of circumstances.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The pleasure of despair. But then, it is in despair that we find the most acute pleasure, especially when we are aware of the hopelessness… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire. — Simone Weil
If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand...... But until we find this… — Jonathan Safran Foer
In overlooking, denying, evading this complexity--which is nothing more than the disquieting complexity of ourselves--we are diminished and we perish; only within this web of… — James A. Baldwin
How many more times do we have to come to terms with death before we find safety?" he asked. He waited a few minutes, but… — Ishmael Beah
The physical powers of the body cannot be separated from the rationale of the mind and the emotions of the heart. They are one and… — R A Salvatore
Indeed, the more we find to love, the more we add to the measure of our hearts. — Lloyd Alexander
The state we find ourselves in is sinful quite independent of guilt. — Franz Kafka
God,' she cried, 'what is love? Man seeking his own head? The human head, so rented by misery that even the teeth weigh! She couldn't… — Djuna Barnes
True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd; Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That… — Alexander Pope
If we sip the wine, we find dreams coming upon us out of the imminent night — D. H. Lawrence
Alienation as we find it in modern society is almost total… Man has created a world of man-made things as it never existed before. He… — Erich Fromm
Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding. — Jean de La Fontaine
Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of… — C.S. Lewis
As long as our orientation is toward perfection or success, we will never learn about unconditional friendship with ourselves, nor will we find compassion. — Pema Chodron
Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful… — Sigmund Freud
If you are interested in something, you will focus on it, and if you focus attention on anything, it is likely that you will become… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there? — E. M. Forster
Poetical feelings are a peril to scholarship. There are always poetical people ready to protest that a corrupt line is exquisite. Exquisite to whom? The… — Tom Stoppard

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