Quotes 881 till 900 of 1905.
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Literature exists inside the language. It’s made of words. It’s not made of ideas and it’s not made of concepts, of psychological analysis. It’s made of words. In the same way in which music is made of notes and a painting is made of lines of colors, the matter of literature are words. So, literature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written.
Source: The Believer Interview 20 oct 2016 -
Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
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Long afterward, many would remember those two days in the first week of October with vividness and anguish.
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Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
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Look into the depths of your own soul and learn first to know yourself, then you will understand why this illness was bound to come upon you and perhaps you will thenceforth avoid falling ill.
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Lord, I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing!
Source: Polite Conversation (1738) -
Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of the book and there's a piece of dialogue that's just outstanding, or a description, then I'll flip back to the first page and start it.
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Love isn't about when you first meet. It's about the many, many years you spend together, when you're trying to keep that flame burning.
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Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
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Make sure of your commitment to Jesus Christ, and seek to follow Him every day. Don't be swayed by the false values and goals of this world, but put Christ and His will first in everything you do.
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Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.
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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
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Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
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Man is born a barbarian, and only raises himself above the beast by culture.
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Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.
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Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.
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Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.
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Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.
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