There is an art to finding your way in the lower regions by the memory of what you have seen when you were higher up. When you can no longer see, you can at least still know.
~ René Daumal
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There is an art to finding your way in the lower regions by the memory of what you have seen when you were higher up. When you can no longer see, you can at least still know.
~ René Daumal
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough. You don’t need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough.
~ Toni Morrison
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Writers are a sorry lot. The best you can say of them is that they are better than actors and that’s not much.
~ John Steinbeck
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There is, in a competitive society, nobody who can exercise even a fraction of the power which a socialist planning board would possess.
~ Friedrich Hayek
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It’s a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.
~ Henry James
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Unnecessary customs live a brutally short life in America.
~ Wilfrid Sheed
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Communication leads to community — that is, to understanding, intimacy, and the mutual valuing that was previously lacking.
~ Rollo May
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Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
~ William Faulkner
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If we exiled our sins, our virtues would get lonely without their old sparring partners.
~ Henry S. Haskins
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