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“All was taken away from you: white dresses, wings, even existence.”

White Existence Taken Dresses Wings Away From You

Author:Czeslaw Milosz

“I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence. Intuition, suspicion, or confidence in new ventures; there is a strange strain within me when advantage is not taken of some situation, the immediacy of recognition of the rightness or wrongness of a mood, a response, a decision - they are so often valid that I am increasingly convinced that we have yet to grasp the reality of existence.”

“It seems to me that Mr. Sculley understood the very nucleus of existence, that he had kept his young eyes and young heart even though his body had grown old. He saw straight through to the cosmic order of things, and he knew that life is not held only in flesh and bone, but also in those objects - a good, faithful pair of shoes; a reliable car; a pen that always works; a bike that has taken you many a mile.”

Heart Body Seems Eye Young Life Is Order Existence Taken Saws Car Objects Understood Shoes Bones Flesh Miles Faithful Pairs Pens Cosmic Bike Pair Of Shoes Good Faith Nucleus Young At Heart

Author:Robert R. McCammon

“Even the choicest literature should be taken as the condiment, and not as the sustenance of life. It should be neither the warp nor the woof of existence, but only the flowery edging upon its borders.”

Should Literature Existence Taken Borders Sustenance Warp Condiments

Book:Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann ...

Source: Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann ...

“Nowadays when a poet with one privately printed book can have his next three years taken care of by a Guggenheim fellowship, a Kenyon Review fellowship, and the Prix de Rome, it is hard to remember what chances the poet took in that small-town world, how precariously hand-to-mouth his existence was. And yet in one way the old days were better; [Vachel] Lindsay after a while, by luck and skill, got far more readers than any poet could get today.”

“It was at first communicated to you that the Government, by order of the Jemiet had decided to destroy completely all the Armenians living in Turkey...An end must be put to their existence, however criminal the measures taken may be, and no regard must be paid to either age or sex nor to conscientious scruples.”

Firsts May Ends Government Age Order Sex Existence Taken Decided Paid Regard Criminals Genocide Turkeys Scruples Armenians Armenian Genocide

Author:Talaat Pasha

“The world has been close to war before - but now man, who has survived all previous threats to his existence, has taken into his mortal hands the power to exterminate the entire species some seven times over.”

Men World Has Beens War Hands Existence Taken Policy Threat Species Seven Mortals Foreign Policy Survived

Author:John F. Kennedy

“All over this land women have no political existence. Laws pass over our heads that we can not unmake. Our property is taken from us without our consent. The babes we bear in anguish and carry in our arms are not ours.”

Law Political Existence Taken Land Arms Bears Property Womens Rights Can Not Consent Anguish Babe Suffrage Woman Suffrage

Author:Lucy Stone

“The existence of the writer is an argument against the existence of the soul, for the soul has obviously taken flight from the real ego, but not improved itself, only become a writer.”

Real Soul Existence Taken Ego Argument Flight

Book:Letters to friends, family, and editors

Source: Letters to friends, family, and editors

“Every existence above a certain rank has its singular points; the higher the rank the more of them. At these points, influences whose physical magnitude is too small to be taken account of by a finite being may produce results of the greatest importance.”

May Certain Results Existence Taken Influence Produce Higher Accounts Importance Finite Magnitude

Author:James Clerk Maxwell

“All was taken away from you: white dresses, wings, even existence. Yet I believe you, messengers. There, where the world is turned inside out, a heavy fabric embroidered with stars and beasts, you stroll, inspecting the trustworthy seams.”

World Believe I Believe Stars White Existence Taken Dresses Wings Heavy Beast Fabric Trustworthy Messengers Away From You

Author:Czeslaw Milosz

“Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure - but the state ought not to be considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico, or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest, and to be dissolved by the fancy of the parties. It is to be looked on with other reverence, because it is not a partnership in things subservient only to the gross animal existence of a temporary and perishable nature.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)

“Bored with obvious reality, I find my fascination in transforming it into a subjective point of view. Without touching my subject I want to come to the moment when, through pure concentration of seeing, the composed picture becomes more made than taken. Without a descriptive caption to justify its existence, it will speak for itself - less descriptive, more creative; less informative, more suggestive - less prose, more poetry.”

“Humourists lead... an existence of jumpiness and apprehension. They sit on the edge of the chair of Literature. In the house of Life they have the feeling that they have never taken off their overcoats.”

Feelings Literature House Existence Taken Humour Edges Chairs Apprehension Overcoat

Author:James Thurber

“Now the basic impulse behind existentialism is optimistic, very much like the impulse behind all science. Existentialism is romanticism, and romanticism is the feeling that man is not the mere he has always taken himself for. Romanticism began as a tremendous surge of optimism about the stature of man. Its aim - like that of science - was to raise man above the muddled feelings and impulses of his everyday humanity, and to make him a god-like observer of human existence.”

Men Humans Feelings Humanity Behinds Existence Taken Optimism Aim Raises Mere Everyday Optimistic Impulse Existentialism Observers Human Existence Romanticism Stature

Author:Colin Wilson

“No one is discontented at not being a king except a discrowned king ... unhappiness almost invariably indicates the existence of a road not taken, a talent undeveloped, a self not recognized.”

Self Existence Taken Talent Kings Unhappiness Road Not Taken

Author:Blaise Pascal