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Thomas Moore quote: "The ordinary arts we practice every day at home are of more..."
The ordinary arts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest. Thomas Moore
We had been everywhere. We had really seen nothing. And I catch myself thinking today that our long journey had only defiled with a sinuous trail of slime the lovely, trustful, dreamy, enormous country that by then, in retrospect, was no more to us than a collection of dog-eared maps, ruined tour books, old tires, and her sobs in the night? every night, every night? the moment I feigned sleep. Vladimir Nabokov
I have to speak my mind. Because what is in my mind is always more interesting than what is happening in the world outside my mind. John Wilmot
Did she ever regret her choices? Were her decisions more clear-cut than mine - or are there always shades of gray whe it comes to matters of the heart? Emily Giffin
Contentment and Happiness didn't exist in my life for more than a few moments at a time, and they were really only illusionary. Sylvia Day
At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in a smell that is in no way inferior to the smell of the sea, bitter where it borders on taste, and more honeysweet where you feel it touching the first sounds. Containing depth within itself, darkness, something of the grave almost. Rainer Maria Rilke
Bella Abzug quote: "Women will change the nature of power, rather than power..."
Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women. Bella Abzug
Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same. More than one person, doubtless like me, writes in order to have no face. Michel Foucault
Dante Alighieri quote: "No sadness is greater than in misery to rehearse memories of joy."
No sadness is greater than in misery to rehearse memories of joy. Dante Alighieri
Its nothing,' said Horace quietly, 'but if you can think of any nicer way of a man killing himself than taking a risk for you, why that's the way I want to die. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jim Morrison quote: "Could any Hell be more horrible than now, and real?"
Could any Hell be more horrible than now, and real? Jim Morrison
I walked away at a good pace, thinking it was easier to go than I had supposed it would be, and reflecting that it would never have done to have an old shoe thrown after the coach, in sight of all the High Street. I whistled and made nothing of going. But the village was very peaceful and quiet, and the light mists were solemnly rising, as if to show me the world, and I had been so innocent and little there, and all beyond was so unknown and great, that in a moment with a strong heave and... Charles Dickens
When I was born, I was almost fourteen years old. That's why I was able to understand more easily than most what it was all about. Eugene Ionesco
To have lost is less disturbing than to wonder if we may possibly have won; and Eustacia could now, like other people at such a stage, take a standing-point outside herself, observe herself as a disinterested spectator, and think what a sport for Heaven this woman Eustacia was. Thomas Hardy
Louisa May Alcott quote: "Persuasive influences are better than any amount of moralizing."
Persuasive influences are better than any amount of moralizing. Louisa May Alcott

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