"A labyrinth is a symbolic journey . .……" — Rebecca Solnit
"A labyrinth is a symbolic journey . . . but it is a map we can really walk on, blurring the difference between map and world."
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127 Quotes by Rebecca Solnit
Rebecca Solnit has 127 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Solitude in the city is about the lack of other people or rather their distance beyond a door or wall,…
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For many years, I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that…
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The object we call a book is not the real book, but its seed or potential, like a music score.…
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I was fifteen, and when I picture myself then, I see flames shooting up, see myself falling off the edge…
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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…
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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…
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The English never draw a line without blurring it.
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Most people can't tell now who wrote what. I like that blurring of identities within the band. because it becomes…
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Those roads provided breath-taking views. There's something special about an empty road going on and on and on to the…
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All crises begin with the blurring of a paradigm and the consequent loosening of the rules for normal research. ..…
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Effectively, it makes the greasepaint permanent, blurring the lines not only between public and private but also between the authentic…
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People are at their most mindful when they are at play. If we find ways of enjoying our work blurring…
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A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the…
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The goal of this office will not be to favor one religious group over another - or even religious groups…
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WE DASH THE BLACK RIVER, ITS flats smooth as stone. Not a ship, not a dinghy, not one cry of…
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I was a girly-girl until I moved to New York. Then I got really into the androgynous look of the…
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Time is our most precious currency. So it's significant that we are being encouraged, wherever possible, to think of our…
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