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Quote by Mary Oliver

“When it's over I don't want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real.”

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Mary Oliver is a renowned American poet, born on September 10, 1935. Her poetry is known for its profound depiction of the natural world and delicate insights into life. Oliver's style is simple and direct, which has won her a wide audience. more

“Men use up their lives in heart-breaking political struggles, or get themselves killed in civil wars, or tortured in the secret prisons of the Gestapo, not in order to establish some central-heated, air-conditioned, strip-lighted Paradise, but because they want a world in which human beings love one another instead of swindling and murdering one another.”

Source: The Complete Works of George Orwell: I have tried to tell the truth, 1943-1944

“Voidness is that which stands right in the middle between this and that.”

Middle

Book:Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

“Nothing is everything that doesn't happen at this very moment.”

Moments Happens

Author:Martin Heidegger

“Nothing is the force that renovates the World.”

World Force

Book:The Poems of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson

“To love our nothingness we must love everything in us that the proud man loves when he loves himself. But we must love it all for exactly the opposite reason.”

Men Reason Proud Opposites Nothingness Proud Man

Book:Thoughts In Solitude

Source: Thoughts In Solitude

“I believe in all that has never yet been spoken.”

Believe I Believe I Believe In

Book:Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

Source: Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

“Only that which is not said is sincere.”

Said Sincere

Book:A time to meet

Source: A time to meet

“But it seems impossible to speak and yet say nothing, you think you have succeeded, but you always overlook something.”

Thinking Seems Speak Impossible

Book:The Unnamable

Source: The Unnamable

“Nothing, my dear and clever colleague, is not your run-of-the-mill nothing, the result of idleness and inactivity, but dynamic, aggressive Nothingness, that is to say, perfect, unique, ubiquitous, in other words Nonexistence, ultimate and supreme.”

Running Perfect Results Unique Ultimate Dear Supreme Clever Aggressive Nothingness Colleagues Idleness Mills Inactivity

Book:The Cyberiad

Source: The Cyberiad

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