Quotes 881 till 900 of 1295.
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The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
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The excitement that you were feeling about a special, unique path for yourself as a woman is all part of your identification with and attachment to being female. And that's ultimately all ego.
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The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.
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The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it.
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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
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The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.
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The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.
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The French equate intelligence with rational discourse, the Russians with intense soul-searching. For the Mexican, intelligence is inseparable from maliciousness.
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The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel, but do not dull thy palm with entertainment of each new-hatched unfledged comrade.
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The function of music is to liberate in the soul those feelings which normally we keep locked up in the heart.
Source: Birdsong (2010) 9 -
The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
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The Gothic tradition was begun by Ann Radcliffe, a rare example of a woman creating an artistic style.
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.
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The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.
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The great question - which I have not been able to answer - is, "What does a woman want?"
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The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another.
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The happiness of one man and one woman is the greatest thing in all the world.
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The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a woman who's extremely vain.
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The heart and soul of the Christian life is learning to hear God's voice and then developing the courage to do what he asks us to do.
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The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character.
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