Category: writer
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
Voltaire
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If your inner life is not producing what you would like on the outside, don’t be discouraged… just be willing to change.
Joyce Meyer
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In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love.
Eckhart Tolle
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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it ‘the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.’ The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of ‘Artist.’
Edgar Allan Poe
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Confidante: One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.
Ambrose Bierce
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Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
James Baldwin
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Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word ‘modernity’ if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.
Zadie Smith
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When a father puts in long hours at work, he’s praised for being dedicated and ambitious. But when a mother stays late at the office, she’s sometimes accused of being selfish, neglecting her kids.
Michelle Obama
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The name of ‘reform’ simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn