"... This is the paradox of vision: Sharp……" — Susan Griffin
"... This is the paradox of vision: Sharp perception softens our existence in the world."
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35 Quotes by Susan Griffin
Susan Griffin has 35 quotes on this site.
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A story is told as much by silence as by speech.
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There is always a time to make right what is wrong.
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And if the professional rapist is to be separated from the average dominant heterosexual (male), it may be mainly a…
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Although the many virtues that courtesans possessed were employed to defy circumstances, the role they played depended on the same…
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The hope you feel when you are in love is not necessarily for anything in particular. Love brings something inside…
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Every important social movement reconfigures the world in the imagination. What was obscure comes forward, lies are revealed, memory shaken,…
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Poetry is a good medium for revolutionary hope.
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Is it a coincidence that stories from the private life became more popular just as the grand hope for public…
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How many small decisions accumulate to form a habit? What a multitude of decisions, made by others, in other times,…
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The hard surface of the stone is impervious to nothing in the end. The heat of the sun leaves evidence…
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In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism.
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Each life reverberates in every other life. Whether or not we acknowledge it, we are connected, woven together in our…
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More Existence Quotes
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Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can…
— Hannah Arendt
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
— Hannah Arendt
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No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
— Aristotle
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The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.
— Aristotle
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As far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of…
— David Attenborough
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The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own…
— Paul Auster
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
— Honore de Balzac
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Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
— Honore de Balzac
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I know everything should be photographed. It helps me make sense of my existence.
— David Bailey
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But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him.…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing…
— Henry Adams
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There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.
— Charles Baudelaire
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