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“I sometimes think, with a sad delight, that if one day, in a future I no longer belong to, these sentences, that I write, last with praise, I will at last have the people who understand me, those mine, the true family to be born in and be loved... I will only be understood in effigy, when affection no longer repays the dead the unaffection that was, when living.”

People Ifs Thinking Writing Sometimes Lasts Born Mines One Day Understood Praise Affection Delight Sentences Immortality Understand Me True Family

Author:Fernando Pessoa

“If you cannot live alone, you were born a slave.”

Ifs Born Solitude Slave

Book:Book of Disquietude

Source: Book of Disquietude

“Does being born into a Christian family make one a Christian? No! God has no grandchildren.”

Doe Christian Born Christianity Grandchildren Christian Family

Author:Corrie Ten Boom

“We weep when we are born, Not when we die!”

Dies Born Tears

Book:cloth of gold and other poems

Source: cloth of gold and other poems

“A new idea is rarely born like Venus attended by graces. More commonly it's modeled of baling wire and acne. More commonly it wheezes and tips over.”

Ideas Born Grace Perfection New Ideas Wire Venus Acne

Book:Parti-colored Blocks for a Quilt

Source: Parti-colored Blocks for a Quilt

“Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown.”

Night Voice Born Generations Heard Bird Ancient Hungry Passing Passings Thee Immortal Clown Emperor Nightingales Forlorn

Author:John Keats

“I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty, but that does not mean I have to like that trend or go along with it.”

Mean Doe Stories Form Lost Born Novel Century Fashion Painting Trends Rhyme

Author:Pat Conroy

“The great concepts of oneness and of majestic order seem always to be born in the desert.”

Seems Order Born Concepts Unity Oneness Desert Majestic

Book:Travels with Charley in Search of America

Source: Travels with Charley in Search of America

“And this is the way a novel gets written, in ignorance, fear, sorrow, madness, and a kind of psychotic happiness as an incubator for the wonders being born.”

Way Kind Joy Born Wonder Novel Written Ignorance Sorrow Madness Psychotic

Book:Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947-1954

Source: Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947-1954

“I was born in Belgium. I went to school in England and in Switzerland, then I came to America, so I really feel like I am a citizen of the world.”

World Feels School America Born Citizens England Belgium Switzerland

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“Take the birds which you'll have noticed in so many of my recent paintings. I never thought them up, they just materialized of their own accord; they were born on the canvas... it is absurd to read any sort of symbolic significance into them.”

Born Painting Bird Absurd Symbols Significance Canvas Symbolic Accord

Book:Georges Braque, 1882-1963: An American Tribute

Source: Georges Braque, 1882-1963: An American Tribute

“Each one of us is a statistical impossibility around which hover a million other lives that were never destined to be born.”

Born Millions Destined Impossibility

Book:The Unexpected Universe: A Library of America eBook Classic

Source: The Unexpected Universe: A Library of America eBook Classic

“Eighteen months before I was born, my mother was in Auschwitz. She weighed 49 pounds. She always told me that God saved her so she could give me life. I was born out of nothing.”

Giving Mother Born Months Give Me Saved Pounds Eighteen Auschwitz

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“Some are born in their place, some find it, some realize after long searching that the place they left is the one they have been searching for.”

Long Has Beens Left Realizing Born

Author:Wallace Stegner

“I always was fascinated with China, because I was born in Europe, and for us, China had this fascination and mystery. The first time I came here was in 1989. They were on bicycles, and the speed of the growth has been incredible.”

Firsts Has Beens Growth Born Mystery First Time Europe Incredibles China Speed Fascinated Fascination Bicycle

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.”

Said Book Dies Reading Born Forever Influence Reading Books Dominion Books And Reading Born To Die

Author:William Styron

“My child looked at me and I looked back at him in the delivery room, and I realized that out of a sea of infinite possibilities it had come down to this: a specific person, born on the hottest day of the year, conceived on a Christmas Eve, made by his father and me miraculously from scratch.”

Source: Living Out Loud

“The question that faces every man born into this world is not what should be his purpose, which he should set about to achieve, but just what to do with life? The answer, that he should order his life so that he can find the greatest happiness in it, is more a practical question, similar to that of how a man should spend his weekend, then a metaphysical proposition as to what is the mystic purpose of his life in the scheme of the universe.”

Men World Should Faces Purpose Order Universe Born Answers Achieve This World Every Man Practicals Weekend Schemes Propositions Metaphysical Mystic

Book:Lin Yutang - The Importance Of Living

Source: Lin Yutang - The Importance Of Living

“We do not choose to be born.We do not--most of us, choose to die, or the times or conditions of our death. But within all this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we shall live--Courageously or in cowardice, Honorably or dishonorably, With purpose or adrift. We decide what is important and what is trivial. What makes us significant is what we DO, Or REFUSE TO DO. WE DECIDE and WE CHOOSE--and so we give definition to our lives.”

Giving Important Purpose Dies Born Our Lives Conditions Definitions Refuse Significant Realms Cowardice Adrift

Author:Joseph Epstein

“When they're born outside, crows come and pluck their eyes out.”

Eye Born Crow Pluck

Author:David Sedaris

“Despair of ever being saved, "except thou be born again," or of seeing God "without holiness," or of having part in Christ except thou "love him above father, mother, or thy own life." This kind of despair is one of the first steps to heaven.”

Firsts Kind Mother Father Heaven Christ Born Steps Seeing Despair Saved Holiness First Steps Born Again Father Mother

Book:The saints everlasting rest: or, a treatise of the blessed state of the saints, in their enjoyment of God in glory

Source: The saints everlasting rest: or, a treatise of the blessed state of the saints, in their enjoyment of God in glory

“I'm looking at a place on the coast, ... I was born next to the ocean and I'd like to live next to the ocean.”

Next Born Ocean Coast

Author:Tiger Woods

“Born of the sensibility, art sows and creates life in its turn.”

Art Turns Born Sensibility

Author:Remy de Gourmont

“I'd like my life to be like a Bruce Springsteen song. Just once. I know I'm not born to run, I know that Seven Sisters' Road is nothing like Thunder Road, but feelings can't be different, can they?”

Knows Different Feelings Running Song Born Seven Thunder Springsteen Born To Run

Book:High Fidelity

Source: High Fidelity

“The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.”

Source: The Art and Adventure of Leadership: Understanding Failure, Resilience and Success

“Perhaps I was born too early. I was more the painter of your generation than of mine.”

Born Generations Mines Painter

Author:Paul Cezanne

“The apprehension of... values is intuitive; but it is not a built-in intuition, not something with which one is born. Intuition in art is actually the result of... prolonged tuition.”

Art Values Born Results Art Is Built Intuition Intuitive Apprehension Tuition

Author:Ben Shahn

“Gentle reader, I was born upon the water - not upon the salt and angry ocean, but upon the fresh and rapid-flowing river.”

Water Born Reader Ocean Rivers Angry Gentle Salt Rapids Flowing River

Book:Jacob Faithful

Source: Jacob Faithful

“The insight is born with anxiety, guilt and the joy and gratification that is inseparable from the actualizing of a new idea or vision.”

Ideas Joy Born Vision Anxiety Guilt Insight New Ideas Gratification Inseparable

Book:The Courage to Create

Source: The Courage to Create

“There's been plenty of adversity, starting the moment he was born. He had a respiratory crisis, and it was touch and go for a week whether he would survive. I think ever since, you can feel this pulse in the guy, an almost physical enthusiasm.”

Thinking Feels Moments Guy Born Week Adversity Crisis Starting Enthusiasm Plenty Pulse Respiratory

Author:James Taylor

“Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself--except why he was born and the meaning of his unique existence.”

Knows Men Humanity Born Animal Existence Unique

Author:Storm Jameson

“'Born this Way' is about being yourself, and loving who you are and being proud.”

Way Born Proud Who You Are Being Yourself Be Proud Born This Way Proud Of Yourself

Author:Lady Gaga

“Know that the mind which is born to succeed joins itself to a determined will and perseveres.”

Knows Mind Born Succeed Perseverance Determined Persevere

Book:Work and Its Secret

Source: Work and Its Secret

“I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.”

Way Reality Born Theater All Time Halfway Born This Way

Author:Lady Gaga

“So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.”

Has Beens Stills Bigs Might Sound Born Silence Woods Staring Sat Dialect

Book:Growing Pains: The Autobiography of Emily Carr

Source: Growing Pains: The Autobiography of Emily Carr

“But calm, white calm, was born into a swan.”

Born White Calm Swans

Author:Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

“I was born in North London in 1947. I didn't learn to read until I was almost 8-partly bad schooling, and partly I suspect slight dyslexic problems. My father, driven mad by this, taught me to read. At 9 I began writing.”

Writing Problem Father Born Taught Mad London Driven Suspects Parting Schooling Dyslexic

Author:Tanith Lee

“I'd love to have been born into a wealthy family. I might have turned out even more marvellous than I am now.”

Has Beens Might Born Family Wealthy Marvellous

Author:John Lydon

“Modern Art is being used to index me. Surely it was a source but photographers have influenced Modern Art quite as deeply as they have been influenced, maybe more. Anyway painters don't have a copyright on M. A. We were all born in the same upheaval.”

Has Beens Art Used Born Modern Source Art Is Photographer Painter Modernism Copyright Modern Art Upheaval

Book:EW:100: centennial essays in honor of Edward Weston

Source: EW:100: centennial essays in honor of Edward Weston

“People are born in a certain place, and in a certain society. I don't mean to sound like a determinist, but to think we're entirely free to do whatever we want betrays a certain class perspective. For most people who have to work for a living, and work at jobs under conditions they may not like, it's just not simple when it comes to freedom.”

People Thinking Want May Mean Jobs Certain Sound Born Simple Class Conditions Perspective Betrayal Betray

Author:Thomas Frank

“It's like being a newborn, this sudden sensory overload of noise, color, smells and gravity after months of quietly floating, encased in relative calm and isolation. No wonder babies cry in protest when they're born.”

Born Wonder Cry Color Baby Months Calm Smell Noise Isolation Protest Relative Gravity Floating Sensory Newborn Overload

Book:An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

Source: An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

“Why are some people born with a fire in the belly, while others need something to get their pilot light lit?”

People Needs Light Born Fire Pilots Belly Lit

Author:Jeffrey Kluger

“Only just now awakening after years of materialism, our soul is still infected with the despair born of unbelief, of lack of purpose and aim.”

Years Stills Soul Purpose Born Despair Aim Awakening Materialism Unbelief

Book:Concerning the Spiritual in Art: And Painting in Particular

Source: Concerning the Spiritual in Art: And Painting in Particular

“I arrived on earth in 1928. Born into a milieu of painters, I acquired my taste for painting with my mother's milk.”

Earth Mother Born Painting Taste Painter Milk Milieu

Author:Yves Klein

“My father's family were liquidated during the Cultural Revolution in China because they were landowners. He was the only one to escape. I was born and brought up in Taiwan. But you absorb the trauma. My parents had no sense of security.”

Father Parent Born Security Revolution China Trauma Taiwan

Author:Ang Lee

“Communism is born out of misery, and if the West does not show more understanding, those people will take up arms and turn to others, that is the Soviet Union.”

People Ifs Doe Shows Turns Understanding Born Arms Unions Misery West Communism Soviet Soviet Union

Author:Francois Mitterrand

“But for disloyalty to her husband a wife is censured among men, and ,in her next life she is born in the womb of a jackal and tormented by diseases, the punishment of her sin.”

Men Next Born Sin Wife Husband Disease Punishment Womb Next Life Disloyalty Jackals

Author:Guru Nanak

“By twice born men a widow must not be appointed to ,cohabit with any other ,than her husband , for they who appoint ,her to another ,man , will violate the eternal law.”

Men Law Born Husband Eternal Another Man Widows

Author:Guru Nanak

“I want you to remember something for me. My name is Robbie Williams. I'm a singer, a songwriter, and a born entertainer.”

Want Remember Names Born Summer Singers I Want You Songwriters Entertainers Remember Something

Author:Robbie Williams

“I was born to be a remarkable woman; it matters little in what way or how. ... I shall be famous or I will die.”

Way Littles Matter Dies Born Remarkable

Book:I am the most interesting book of all: the diary of Marie Bashkirtseff

Source: I am the most interesting book of all: the diary of Marie Bashkirtseff

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