Quotes with preserves

  • Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.

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  • Alexander Pope Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Agnes Macphail If they are willing to give women economic freedom in that home, if they are willing to live by the standard they wish women to live by, then homes will be preserves.
    Agnes Macphail
    Canadian politician (1890 - 1954)
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  • Anita Desai India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country.
    Anita Desai
    Indian novelist (1937 - )
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  • Simone de Beauvoir It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.
    Simone de Beauvoir
    French writer and philosopher (1908 - 1986)
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  • Smiley Blanton Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.
    Smiley Blanton
    American psychoanalyst (1882 - 1966)
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  • Thomas Mann Speech is civilization itself. The word... preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.
    Thomas Mann
    German author, critic and Nobel laureate in literature (1929) (1875 - 1955)
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  • Leon Blum When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again.
    Leon Blum
    French politician
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  • Anita Brookner Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Joseph Addison A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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