"It was strange: When you reduced even a……" — Susan Vreeland
"It was strange: When you reduced even a fledgling love affair to its essentials--I loved her, she maybe loved me, I was foolish, I suffered--it became vacuous and trite, meaningless to anyone else. In the end, it's only the moments that we have, the kiss on the palm, the joint wonder at the furrowed texture of a fir trunk or at the infinitude of grains of sand in a dune. Only the moments."
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Susan Vreeland
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11 Quotes by Susan Vreeland
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What the world calls failure, I call learning.
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Think hard before you begin, then enter the work.
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I remember being disappointed when Papa had shown me Caravaggio's Judith. She was completely passive while she was sawing through…
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Look long enough, out or in, and you’ll be glad you are who you are.
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God taking from us and loving us at the same time by providing comforters was a kind of spiritual equanimity.…
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That a thing made by hand, the work and thought of a single craftsman, can endure much longer than its…
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Everybody works . . . . That's what life is. Work and a little play and a lot of prayer.
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If two people love the same thing, she reasoned, then they must love each other, at least a little, even…
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You know, bicycling isn't just a matter of balance," I said. "it's a matter of faith. You can keep upright…
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He and I had a bridge that no one else traveled that made us artistic lovers, passionate without a touch…
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The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation…
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The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of…
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The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service.
— Irving Babbitt
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
— Honore de Balzac
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I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect…
— Roger Bannister
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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all…
— Saint Basil
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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one…
— Arnold Bennett
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I started my music career at 18 and for a long while I let other people handle my affairs.
— Sophie Ellis Bextor
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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
— Ambrose Bierce
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A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they…
— Aeschylus
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