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Quote by Adam Zagajewski

“I drink from a small spring, / my thirst excedes the ocean.”

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Adam Zagajewski, born on June 21, 1945, is a renowned Polish poet. His works are known for their unique style and profound reflections on history and personal memory. more

“Teach your scholar to observe the phenomena of nature; you will soon rouse his curiosity, but if you would have it grow, do not be in too great a hurry to satisfy this curiosity. Put the problems before him and let him solve them himself. Let him know nothing because you have told him, but because he has learnt it for himself. Let him not be taught science, let him discover it. If ever you substitute authority for reason he will cease to reason; he will be a mere plaything of other people's thoughts.”

People Ifs Knows Reason Problem Grows Teach Taught Authority Mere Curiosity Solve Cease Substitutes Scholar

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“A dutiful mother is someone who follows every step her child makes...And a good mother is someone whose child wants to follow her.”

Want Children Mother Steps Every Step Good Mother

Author:Jodi Picoult

“The dead should not rule the living”

Should

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“Sunday night, I reread The Catcher in the Rye until I felt tired enough to fall asleep. Only I never got tired enough. And I couldn't read, because reading didn't feel the same.”

Feels Enough Night Fall Reading Felt Tired Sunday Catchers Sunday Night

Book:Beautiful Creatures

Source: Beautiful Creatures

“She was wearing a purple T-shirt, with a skinny black dress over it that made you remember how much of a girl she was, and trashed black boots that made you forget.”

Made Remember Girl Black Forget Dresses Shirts Over It Boots T Shirt Purple Skinny Black Boots

Author:Kami Garcia

“You still haven't managed to heal the scars left by some of the injustices committed against you in your life and it doesn't do you any good. All it does is feed a constant desire to feel sorry for yourself, because you were the victim of people stronger than you. Or else it makes you go to the other extreme and disguise yourself as an avenger ready to strike out at the people who hurt you. Isn't that a waste of time?...It is human, but it's not intelligent or reasonable.”

“Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.”

Men Unique Tasks Every Man Repetition Unprecedented Recurring Actualization

Book:Hasidism and modern man

Source: Hasidism and modern man

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