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• wants
• truths
• must

You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth Cornel West

• funeral
• dead
• hearing

If you hear I'm dead, don't come to my funeral. Isaac Bashevis Singer

• spokes
• hearing
• ear

I spoke to ears that refused to hear. Ronald Reagan

• silence
• the secret
• feeling

I love your silences, they are like mine. You are the only being before whom I am not distressed by my own silences. You have a vehement silence, one feels it is charged with essences, it is a strangely alive silence, like a trap open over a well, from which one can hear the secret murmur of the earth itself. Anais Nin

• spiritual
• evening
• good

Whoever approaches these Olympians with another religion in his heart, searching among them for moral elevation, even for sanctity, for disincarnate spirituality, for charity and benevolence, will soon be forced to turn his back on them, discouraged and disappointed. For there is nothing here that suggests asceticism, spirituality, or duty. We hear nothing but the accents of an exuberant, triumphant life in which all things, whether good or evil, are deified. Friedrich Nietzsche

• being afraid
• being
• hearing

Don’t be afraid.” “I hear voices,” Iggy said. “Be very afraid. James Patterson

• new york
• life
• new

I could hear everything, together with the hum of my hotel neon. I never felt sadder in my life. LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; New York gets godawful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle. Jack Kerouac

• respect
• humanity
• people

I can't bear to hear a human being spoken of with contempt just because of his group identification...It's these respectable people here who create those hooligans out there. Isaac Asimov

• you me
• hello
• hears

HELLO? HELLO? CAN YOU HEAR ME? I-WANT-TO-TALK-TO-HARRY-POTTER! J. K. Rowling

• beauty
• beautiful
• lost

I would meet you upon this honestly. I that was near your heart was removed therefrom To lose beauty in terror, terror in inquisition. I have lost my passion: why should I need to keep it Since what is kept must be adulterated? I have lost my sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch: How should I use them for your closer contact? T. S. Eliot

• remember me
• she
• storm

You will hear thunder and remember me,and think: she wanted storms... Anna Akhmatova

• different
• hears
• lots

There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing. Gilbert K. Chesterton

• change
• people
• society

It is quite common to hear high officials in Washington and elsewhere speak of changing the map of the Middle East, as if ancient societies and myriad peoples can be shaken up like so many peanuts in a jar. Edward Said

• vision
• bear
• emotional

Some discouragement, some faintness of heart at the new real future which replaces the imaginary, is not unusual, and we do not expect people to be deeply moved by what is not unusual. That element of tragedy which lies in the very fact of frequency has not yet wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind, and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart... George Eliot

• god
• thing
• only

The only thing we don't have a god for is premature ejaculation... but I hear that it's coming quickly. Mel Brooks