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Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin. Hermann Hesse
Intelligence World Mind Opposites Other Our Consists Drawn Insights Dividing New Beyond Passing Line Begin Which Capable Pairs
Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish. Hermann Hesse
Thoughts Words Become Immediately Distorted Foolish Well Always Very Different After Little Express Expressed
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again. Hermann Hesse
Man World Every Once Way Significant More Only Point Remarkable Never He Also Himself Always Very Than Just Represents Which Again Special Unique Every Man Phenomena Intersect
Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader. Hermann Hesse
Responsibility Leader Think Those Clamor Take Cannot Themselves Who Need
If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye. Honore de Balzac
Art Eye See Could Hand Paint
We must believe in free will, we have no choice. Isaac Bashevis Singer
Will Free Free Will Believe Must No Choice Choice
However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words. Ivan Turgenev
Nature You Words Will Comprehensible Never Knock She Answer However Door Much
I should like to save the Shire, if I could - though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too stupid and dull for words, and have felt that an earthquake or an invasion of dragons might be good for them. J. R. R. Tolkien
Good Words Thought Stupid Too Earthquake Though Invasion Could Like Felt Been Dull Times Them Might If I Could Should Inhabitants Dragons Save
It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him. J. R. R. Tolkien
You Live Out Calculations Him Does Leave Your Near Dragon
Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow. Jack Kerouac
You Respect Long Humility Bite Bitten Mad Stay Never Like Sorrow Dogs Get Gods Mankind
A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world. Jack Kerouac
Time Heart World Girl Pain Every Every Time Saw Direction Opposite Opposite Direction Did Going Loved Who
There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention. James Baldwin
Man Eyes Few Own Nothing Others Dreadful More He Attention Knows Dealing His Left Than Few Things Going Human Help Who Things
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. James Baldwin
Love War Love Is Battle Think Way Seem Does End Up Begin Growing Growing Up
People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead. James Baldwin
People Become Pay More Lead Allowed Simply Still Very Themselves Lives
Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion. James Joyce
Women Men Emotion Governed Lines Intellect Curves
A nation is the same people living in the same place. James Joyce
Patriotism People Nation Living Same Place
Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it. Joseph Conrad
Face Way Facing Through Always Get
The temple of art is built in words. Josiah Gilbert Holland
Art Communication Words Temple Built
I'm very happy being me, although sometimes I'd love to be a bird so that I could fly. Joy Fielding
Love Me Happy Sometimes Bird Fly Could Although Very Being
In boxing, they say it's the punch you don't see coming that knocks you out. In the wider world, the reality we ignore or deny is the one that weakens our most impassioned efforts toward improvement. Katherine Dunn
You Reality World Punch Our Say Out Weakens See Impassioned Toward Knocks Most Boxing Coming Deny Efforts Improvement Ignore They Say Wider
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful. Leo Tolstoy
War Alone History People Independent Hatched Always Pernicious Governments Which Successful Interests Even Whom
War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it. Leo Tolstoy
War Man Responsibility Christian Assume Other Terrible Terrible Thing Hand Right Thing Starting
Somebody once asked me how I define sobriety, and my response was 'liberation from dependence.' Leslie Jamison
Me Somebody Once Define Liberation Response How Dependence Sobriety Asked
Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning. Louisa May Alcott
Learning Those Significant Direction More Emotional Catalyst Look Around Effectively May Us Painful Choosing Event Serve
Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist. Margaret Atwood
Reality Better Worse Optimism Than Realist Means Pessimism
I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it. Margaret Atwood
Hope People Will Finally Members Only Come Human Race Realize Human Race
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