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“Wherever I go I need a period of incubation so that I may learn the essence of nature, which never wishes to be understood or yield herself.”

Needs May Wish Nature Periods Understood Essence Yield Incubation

Author:Paul Gauguin

“love is so very subtle an essence, such an indefinable metaphysical marvel, that its due force, though very cruelly felt by the sufferer himself, is never clearly understood by those who look on at its torments and wonder why he takes the common fever so badly.”

Looks Force Felt Love Is Common Wonder Understood Essence Dues Subtle Metaphysical Torment Fever Sufferers Indefinable

Book:Lady Audley's Secret

Source: Lady Audley's Secret

“It is my experience that marriage does not make one happier. It destroys the illusion that has been the essence of one's previous existence, that there existed something like a soul-mate. The feeling of not being understood is heightened in marriage by the fact that one's entire life beforehand had the aim of finding a being who would understand one. But isn't it better to exist without such an illusion and look this great lonely truth straight in the eye?”

Looks Doe Has Beens Soul Facts Feelings Eye Existence Findings Illusion Understood Lonely Essence Aim Mates Soul Mate

Author:Paula Modersohn-Becker

“I like to question the minutia, to get to the essence of things. The minutia of life is all about design. It's about the design of how you talk to another human being; it's the design of speech; it's the design of everything we do. We need to be better at listening, and we need to aim more directly at understanding and being understood.”

Needs Humans Life Is Understanding Human Beings Design Listening Speech Understood Essence Aim

Author:Richard Saul Wurman

“In terms of my relationships with a lot of the adult characters, when I was working with Harrison, it wasn't like a verbal agreement, but we both understood that because there was this constant tension between our characters, we couldn't say "Cut" and start acting normal. We had to keep an essence of that relationship in our characters off screen which is really important.”

Important Character Term Acting Cutting Normal Understood Adults Essence Constant Screens Tension Agreement

Author:Asa Butterfield

“Properly understood, style is not a seductive decoration added to a functional structure; it is of the essence of a work of art. The necessary elements of style are lucidity, elegance, and individuality; these three qualities combine to form a preservative which ensures the nearest approximation to permanence in the fugitive art of letters.”

Art Form Three Quality Style Elements Understood Letters Essence Structure Individuality Works Of Art Elegance Seductive Permanence Decoration Fugitive Approximation Lucidity

Author:Evelyn Waugh

“That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction that the burden of proof has to be placed on authority, and that it should be dismantled if that burden cannot be met.”

Ifs Should Mets Authority Understood Essence Conviction Burden Proof Anarchy Anarchism Burden Of Proof

Book:Language and Politics

Source: Language and Politics

“I don't hold with shamans, witch doctors, or psychiatrists. Shakespeare, Tolstoy, or even Dickens, understood more about the human condition than ever occurred to any of you. You overrated bunch of charlatans deal with the grammar of human problems, and the writers I've mentioned with the essence.”

Humans Problem Deals Conditions Understood Doctors Essence Bunch Witch Human Condition Grammar Psychiatrist Overrated Dickens Charlatans Human Problems Witch Doctors

Author:Mordecai Richler

“When it is understood that one loses joy and happiness in the attempt to possess them, the essence of natural farming will be realized. The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.”

Humans Joy Goal Loses Natural Human Beings Growing Understood Perfection Essence Ultimate Farming Crops Cultivation Ultimate Goal Joy And Happiness

Book:The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming

Source: The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming

“And Alex understood that Scotty Hausmann did not exist. He was a word casing in human form: a shell whose essence has vanished.”

Humans Form Understood Essence Shells Alex Human Form Scotty

Author:Jennifer Egan

“Meditation is object-less. If you use any object, then it is not meditation; it becomes thinking. It becomes contemplation; it becomes reflection, but not meditation. This is the most essential point to be understood. This is the essence of a meditative state: that it is object-less. Only consciousness is there, but not conscious ABOUT anything. Consciousness without being conscious of anything - this is the nature of meditation.”

Ifs Thinking States Use Consciousness Meditation Objects Essentials Reflection Conscious Understood Essence Contemplation

Author:Rajneesh

“Why multiply instances? It is written, the Heavens and the Earth shall fade away like a Vesture; which indeed they are: the Time-vesture of the Eternal. Whatsoever sensibly exists, whatsoever represents Spirit to Spirit, is properly a Clothing, a suit of Raiment, put on for a season, and to be laid off. Thus in this one pregnant subject of CLOTHES, rightly understood, is included all that men have thought, dreamed, done, and been: the whole External Universe and what it holds is but Clothing; and the essence of all Science lies in the PHILOSOPHY OF CLOTHES.”

Source: The Works of Thomas Carlyle

“Culture, as Indian people understood it, was basically a lifestyle by which a people acted. It was self-expression, but not a conscious self-expression. Rather, it was an expression of the essence of a people.”

People Self Culture Expression Conscious Understood Essence Lifestyle Indian Self Expression

Book:Custer Died For Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto

Source: Custer Died For Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto