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• change
• philosophical
• world

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it. Karl Marx

• wild
• heart
• eyes

For when Philippe, with his snapping eyes and his wild ways, left Savannah forever, he took with him the glow that was in Ellen's heart and left for the bandy-legged little Irishman who married her only a gentle shell. Margaret Mitchell

• beautiful
• beauty
• eyes

For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty. Virginia Woolf

• nature
• heart
• hard

By starving the sensibility of our pupils we only make them easier prey to the propagandist when he comes. For famished nature will be avenged and a hard heart is no infallible protection against a soft head. C. S. Lewis

• lies
• cover
• lie

People only tell lies when the truth is disagreeable to them, or frightens them, or to cover sin. Anne Perry

• death
• small
• interrupting

[...] death is only a small interruption. Anita Brookner

• hope
• old
• time

If only you and I (or you or I) doesn't go and die before we have a chance to meet! And yet, if we did no doubt there would be some good and loving reason for it. I am (except in bad moods) more convinced of that all the time. We shall meet and be happy together if it is good for us: otherwise not (e. g. I might after all be disappointed in a hope I sometimes cherish that you would find me a little less aggressive and dictatorial and arrogant than I have often been in the old days. But who... C. S. Lewis

• kindness
• manly
• kindly

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another. Anatole France

• death
• peace
• inner peace

There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness and death. Fran Lebowitz

• your life
• giving
• life

Surely it is an odd way to spend your life - sitting alone in a room with a pen in your hand, hour after hour, day after day, year after year, struggling to put words on pieces of paper in order to give birth to what does not exist, except in your head. Why on earth would anyone want to do such a thing? The only answer I have ever been able to come up with is: because you have to, because you have no choice. Paul Auster

• nature
• sympathy
• universe

The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly. Julian Barnes

• men
• she
• enough

Again Creb grunted. It was the usual noncommittal comment used by men when responding to a woman. It carried only enough meaning to indicate the woman had been understood, without acknowledging too much significance in what she said. Jean M. Auel

• butterfly
• thinking
• fly

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. Later he became conscious of his damaged wings and of their construction and he learned to think and could not fly any more because the love of flight was gone and he could only remember when it had been effortless. Ernest Hemingway

• drinking
• water
• god

If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it. Rumi

• love
• where
• loves

It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it matters only that you love John Lennon