Category: writer
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I’ve seen a look in dogs’ eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
John Steinbeck
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If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
Honore de Balzac
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Life is the childhood of our immortality.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.
George Eliot
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There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving – by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.
Aldous Huxley
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The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosopher’s or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself, and that is why you must know yourself – Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.
Aldous Huxley
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I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, ‘black feminist’ does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it’s just… womanish.
Alice Walker
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Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and those who have a naturally adversarial relationship with power.
Arundhati Roy
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I know of nothing more valuable, when it comes to the all-important virtue of authenticity, than simply being who you are.
Charles R. Swindoll