Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.
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Bob Dylan
Don’t cry and don’t rage. Understand.
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Baruch Spinoza
The only way to heal yourself was to understand. Understand the love or the hate or the cowardice, or the impulsiveness, the lack of will of the one who hurt you--the circumstances that twisted them, the influences that warped them. And when you forgot yourself...
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Mary Schumann
I write to understand as much as to be understood.
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Elie Wiesel
In my experience, men who understand women seem to rarely want to have anything to do with them.
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Khaled Hosseini
More Quotes By Rosie Thomas
Things don't matter, people do
I've grieved enough for his life cut short and for mine for running on for so long with so little in it. It's weakness now, but I suppose I am crying out of a general sense of loss. Maybe I am mourning for the human...
The dead do not harm us, only the alive.
I am afraid of reduction. After a lifetime's independence- yes, selfish independence- I am terrified of being reduced to childhood once more, to helplessness, to seas of confusion from which the cruel lucid intervals poke up like rock shoals. I don't want to sit in...
Wherever you look there is so much loss and folly to contemplate.
