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Herman Hesse quote: "These people are rare who knows how to listen."
These people are rare who knows how to listen. Herman Hesse
He wanted her to be as well dressed as the richest lady in Ilhus; fine clothes would erase her past and hide the stove burns of her arms. But the fine clothes rarely left the closet Jorge Amado
Mitch Albom quote: "Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge. His..."
Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge. His thoughts still haunted him. Mitch Albom
Don DeLillo quote: "it's there in your face, all of it, the way it rarely shows in..."
it's there in your face, all of it, the way it rarely shows in any face. what do i see? something lazy, sexy and insatiable. Don DeLillo
Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that used to define them are covered by moments of their own accomplishments. It is not until much later, that children understand; their stories and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the water of their lives. Paulo Coelho
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "Common sense is as rare as genius."
Common sense is as rare as genius. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mario Vargas Llosa quote: "It is rare and almost impossible for a novel to have only one..."
It is rare and almost impossible for a novel to have only one narrator. Mario Vargas Llosa
I'm always disappointed when I see the word 'Puritan' tossed around as shorthand for a bunch of generic, boring, stupid, judgmental killjoys. Because to me, they are very specific, fascinating, sometimes brilliant, judgmental killjoys who rarely agreed on anything except that Catholics are going to Hell. Sarah Vowell
Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity. Eric Hoffer
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence. Thomas Wolfe
I confess I do not believe in time. I like to fold my magic carpet, after use, in such a way as to superimpose one part of the pattern upon another. Let visitors trip. And the highest enjoyment of timelessness-in a landscape selected at random-is when I stand among rare butterflies and their food plants. This is ecstasy, and behind the ecstasy is something else, which is hard to explain. It is like a momentary vacuum into which rushes all that I love. A sense of oneness with sun and stone. A... Vladimir Nabokov
All religions are good 'in principle' - but unfortunately this abstract Good has only rarely prevented their practitioners from behaving like bastards. Paul Feyerabend
Meister Eckhart quote: "Even now one rarely hears of people achieving great things..."
Even now one rarely hears of people achieving great things unless they first stumble in some respect. Meister Eckhart
The more I dim my eyes over print and frazzle my brain over abstract ideas, the more I appreciate the delight of being basically an animal wrapped in a sensitive skin: sex, the resistance of rock, the taste and touch of snow, the feel of the sun, good wine and a rare beefsteak and the company of friends around a fire with a guitar and lousy old cowboy songs. Despair: I'll never be a scholar, never be a decent good Christian. Just a hedonist, a pagan, a primitive romantic Edward Abbey
When it is good, this is a city of fantastic strength, sophistication and beauty. It is like no other city in time or place. Visitors and even natives rarely use the words urban character or environmental style, but that is what they are reacting to with awe in the presence of massed, concentrated, steel, stone, power and life. Ada Louise Huxtable

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