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“I tell myself I write because I want to say something true and original about the nature of evil. That is very ambitious - to say something about the human condition that hasn't been written before. Probably I will never succeed but that is what I strive to do.”

Want Writing Humans Evil Written Conditions Succeed Originals Strive Human Condition Ambitious Nature Of Evil

Author:Jo Nesbo

“The First thing that strikes a traveler in the United States is the innumerable multitude of those who seek to emerge from their original condition; and the second is the rarity of lofty ambition to be observed in the midst of the universally ambitious stir of society. No Americans are devoid of a yearning desire to rise, but hardly any appear to entertain hopes of great magnitude or to pursue very lofty aims. All are constantly seeking to acquire property, power, and reputation.”

“The original answer defines certain conditions. Anything else is a different question.”

Different Certain Answers Conditions Originals

Author:Marilyn vos Savant

“Every true poet, I thought, must be original and originality a condition of poetic genius; so that each poet is like a species in nature (not an individuum genericum or specificum ) and can never recur. That nothing shd. be old or borrowed however cannot be.”

Conditions Poet Genius Originals Species Poetic Originality Borrowed Very True

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)

“Every region should retain representative samples of its original or wilderness condition, to serve science as a sample of normality. Just as doctors must study healthy people to understand disease, so must the land sciences study the wilderness to understand disorders of the land-mechanism.”

People Should Study Land Conditions Healthy Disease Doctors Originals Regions Wilderness Disorder Mechanism Representatives Sample Normality

Book:For the Health of the Land: Previously Unpublished Essays And Other Writings

Source: For the Health of the Land: Previously Unpublished Essays And Other Writings

“Man is even as steel, the essence of which is hidden: through admonition and explanation, good counsel and education, that essence will be brought to light. If, however, he be allowed to remain in his original condition, the corrosion of lusts and appetites will effectively destroy him.”

Ifs Men Light Conditions Essence Originals Lust Explanation Appetite Steel Admonition

Author:Bahá'u'lláh

“Work restores humankind and all its attributes to the savage animal condition that was its original intended state.”

States Work Animal Conditions Originals Attributes Humankind Savages

Book:Lust

Source: Lust

“Originality is another criterion of aesthetic value. We may formulate an originality principle, according to which highly valuable works of art provide hitherto unavailable insights.... Notice that, although originality is a necessary condition of high aesthetic value, it is far from a sufficient condition. Many original works have little or no aesthetic value. An artwork may present a novel but uninteresting perspective, or one that is original but wrong.”

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Author:James Young

“Every condition of the soul has its own sign and expression...So you will see how hard it is to seem original without being so.”

Soul Hard Seems Conditions Expression Originals

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“Ben Marcus has created an innovative and unflinching portrait of the turmoil of the human condition, providing the reader a most rare gift: something truly new. Notable American Women contains strains of Donald Antrim and Samuel Beckett but is beholden to neither; it is a brave, original book.”

Humans Book Conditions Reader Originals Brave Human Condition Providing Portraits Strain Innovative Notable Turmoil American Woman Beckett

Author:Myla Goldberg

“Let me define a garden as the meeting of raw nature and the human imagination in which both seek the fulfillment of their beauty. Every sign indicates that nature wants us and wishes for collaboration with us, just as we long for nature to be fulfilled in us. If our original state was to live in a garden, as Adam and Eve did, then a garden signals our absolute origins as well as our condition of eternity, while life outside the garden is time and temporality.”

“Conscience is the most sacred of all property; other property depending in part on positive law, the exercise of that being a natural and unalienable right. To guard a man's house as his castle, to pay public and enforce private debts with the most exact faith, can give no title to invade a man's conscience, which is more sacred than his castle, or to withhold from it that debt of protection for which the public faith is pledged by the very nature and original conditions of the social pact.”

Source: Letters and Other Writings of James Madison

“Remember blessed children of men that the purpose of the real science should be to increase the happiness and to free the race from every external condition that would not be beneficial for the elation of man to the pristine greatness of his original cosmic destiny.”

Men Should Children Real Remember Purpose Race Destiny Conditions Greatness Increase Originals Blessed Cosmic Beneficial Elation Pristine Children Of Men

Author:Count of St. Germain

“I don't see a huge difference between the African condition and the black American condition. The only real difference is that black Americans live in the richest country on Earth surrounded by a majority white population and are almost entirely disconnected from their original culture and their God-given identity.”

Real Country Earth Culture Given Black Differences White Conditions Identity Huge Originals Majority Population Disconnected

Author:Kola Boof