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 Joseph Conrad
Droll thing life is -- that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself -- that comes too late -- a crop of inextinguishable regrets.
Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings.
My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.
Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
