All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.
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Alain Badiou
I felt a Cleaving in my Mind–As if my Brain had split– I tried to match it– Seam by Seam–But could not make it fit.
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Emily Dickinson
Open wide the mind's cage-door, She'll dart forth, and cloudward soar.
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John Keats
O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed.
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Gerard Manley Hopkins
If we read the Scriptures, we shall renewed our mind.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
More Quotes By Peter De Vries
I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.
How I hate this world. I would like to tear it apart with my own two hands if I could. I would like to dismantle the universe star by star, like a treeful of rotten fruit. Nor do I believe in progress. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>A...
Stein resented the sedative power of religion, or rather the repose available to those blissfully ignorant that the medicament was a fictitious blank. In this exile from peace of mind to which his reason doomed him, he was like an insomniac driven to awaken sleepers...
Human nature is pretty shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection.
