"The stars we are given. The constellations we……" — Rebecca Solnit
"The stars we are given. The constellations we make. That is to say, stars exist in the cosmos, but constellations are the imaginary lines we draw between them, the readings we give the sky, the stories we tell."
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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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His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.
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The discovery of a wine is of greater moment than the discovery of a constellation. The universe is too full…
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Every luminary in the constellation of human greatness, like the stars, comes out in the darkness to shine with the…
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Okay, maybe I'm not such a shitty writer. But I can't pull my ideas together, Van Houten. My thoughts are…
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My thoughts are starts I can't fathom into constellations.
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Every constellation’s like its own fairy tale.
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New York at night, from its bridges, is a miracle. When I first came to the city, it took all…
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No design can exist in isolation. It is always related, sometimes in very complex ways, to an entire constellation of…
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