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Disappear Quote by Mark Doty

“We long to connect; we fear that if we do, our freedom and individuality will disappear.” quote by Mark Doty — Download Open image

“We long to connect; we fear that if we do, our freedom and individuality will disappear.”

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“And now, a heap of roses beside the sea, white rugosa beside the foaming hem of shore: brave, waxen candles… And we talk as…

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“I used to walk out, at night, to the breakwater which divides the end of the harbor form the broad moor of the salt marsh. There was nothing to block the wind that had picked up speed and vigor from its Atlantic crossing. I’d study the stars in their brilliant blazing, the diaphanous swath of the milk Way, the distant…

“And, I think, this greening does thaw at the edges, at least, of my own cold season. Joy sneaks in: listening to music, riding my bicycle, I catch myself feeling, in a way that’s as old as I am but suddenly seems unfamiliar, light. I have felt so heavy for so long. At first I felt odd- as if I…

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What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Every view of…

Nothing old is ever reborn but neither does it totally disappear. And that which has once been born, will always reappear in a new…

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I even see the cinema itself as a woman, with its alternation of light and darkness, of appearing and disappearing images

Federico Fellini

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I guess he'll have to figure out someday that he is supposed to have this dark side, that it is part of what it means to be human, to have the darkness just as much as the light- that in fact the dark parts make the light visible; without them, the light would disappear. But I guess he has to…

Pain results from a judgment you have made about a thing. Remove the judgment and the pain disappears.

Neale Donald Walsch

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“I am disappearing, maybe I'm already gone.”

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When I step into the batters box. The fans, the noise, the cheers, they all disappear. For that moment, the world is just a…

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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I am sympathetic to developing countries’ concerns: because of our emissions it’s their crops that will disappear; because of our inaction, it’s their fields…

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Although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears.

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I don't like magic - but I have been known to make guys disappear.

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It is almost impossible to overestimate the value of true humility and its power in the spiritual life. For the beginning of humility is the beginning of blessedness and the consummation of humility is the perfection of all joy. Humility contains in itself the answer to all the great problems of the life of the soul. It is the only…

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