"[T]he essence of belief is doubt, the essence……" — Thomas Wolfe
"[T]he essence of belief is doubt, the essence of reality is questioning. The essence of Time is Flow, not Fix. The essence of faith is the knowledge that all flows and that everything must change. The growing man is Man Alive, and his "philosophy" must grow, must flow, with him. . . . the man too fixed today, unfixed tomorrow - and his body of beliefs is nothing but a series of fixations."
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Thomas Wolfe
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49 Quotes by Thomas Wolfe
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You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
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All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field…
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A young man is so strong, so mad, so certain, and so lost. He has everything and he is able…
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In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness,…
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Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.
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America - it is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only…
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Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.
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Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a…
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The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious…
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...he was like a man who stands upon a hill above the town he had left, yet does not say…
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Man is born to live, to suffer, and to die, and what befalls him is a tragic lot. There is…
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What I had to face, the very bitter lesson that everyone who wants to write has got to learn, was…
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