Do you know that I can't remember her face? Try as I may, it will not be conjured. I can tell you what she looked like; I can recite a description of her features, part by part, but I cannot evoke the whole face.'' Don't you have a photograph?'' Photographs! ' He spat out the word. 'I'm talking about true recollection - seeing the face. Siri Hustvedt
A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.
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Elbert Hubbard
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Ur be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. Four be the things I'd been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt. Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne. Three be the...
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Dorothy Parker
The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.
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Meister Eckhart
Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth.]
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Gautama Buddha
More Quotes By Siri Hustvedt
It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
You can only be afraid of what you think you know.
We carry about us the burden of what thousands of people have said and the memories of all our misfortunes. To abandon all that is to be alone, and the mind that is alone is not only innocent but young -- not in time or...
Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
Tell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Wherever he goes, you also go. He will not be alone.
