"Cities have always offered anonymity, variety, and conjunction,……" — Rebecca Solnit
"Cities have always offered anonymity, variety, and conjunction, qualities best basked in by walking: one does not have to go into the bakery or the fortune-teller's, only to know that one might. A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs to the imagination."
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Rebecca Solnit
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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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A piece of advice always contains an implicit threat, just as a threat always contains an implicit piece of advice.
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In reality, the law always contains less than the fact itself, because it does not reproduce the fact as a…
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A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the…
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Nature's book always contains the truth; we must only learn to read it.
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You see, evil always contains the seeds of its own destruction. It is ultimately negative, and therefore encompasses its downfall…
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