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The fight for free space-for wilderness and for public space-must be accompanied by a fight for free time to spend wandering in…
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The things we want are transformative, and we don’t know or only think we know what is on the other side of…
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How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?
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I STILL THINK THE REVOLUTION IS TO MAKE THE WORLD SAFE FOR POETRY, MEANDERING, FOR THE FRAIL AND VULNERABLE, THE RARE AND…
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Perhaps it’s that you can’t go back in time, but you can return to the scenes of a love, of a crime,…
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Solitude in the city is about the lack of other people or rather their distance beyond a door or wall, but in…
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For many years, I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that color of…
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The object we call a book is not the real book, but its seed or potential, like a music score. It exists…
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I was fifteen, and when I picture myself then, I see flames shooting up, see myself falling off the edge of the…
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Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production-oriented society, and doing nothing is hard to do. It's best done…
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Kindness and gentleness never had a gender, and neither did empathy.
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When you say 'mother' or 'father' you describe three different phenomena. There is the giant who made you and loomed over your…
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The Christian in prayer comes up close to God, with a humble boldness of faith, and takes hold of him, wrestles with…
— William Gurnall
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Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves, as he loves us…
— Edmund Burke
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When Garri Kasparov wrestles with his conscience, he always wins. It's what he's best at.
— Dominic Lawson
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A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.
— Adrienne Rich
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The truth, whether we admit it or not, is that grace scares us to death. It scares us primarily because it wrestles…
— Tullian Tchividjian
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Every woman who appears wrestles with the forces that would have her disappear. She struggles with the forces that would tell her…
— Rebecca Solnit
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ARENA, n. In politics, an imaginary rat-pit in which the statesman wrestles with his record.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Our heart wanders lost in the dark woods. Our dream wrestles in the castle of doubt. But there’s music in us. Hope…
— Jack Gilbert
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Longing is like a seed that wrestles in the ground
— Emily Dickinson
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I know the rules. I've been living here longer than you have." He cracks a smile then. He nudges me back. "Hardly."…
— Lauren Oliver
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Here I love you and the horizon hides you in vain. I love you still among these cold things. Sometimes my kisses…
— Pablo Neruda
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A powerful person is not he who out-wrestles others. A powerful person is he who can control himself when angry.
— Prophet Muhammad
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