"It was impossible not to admire him, not to want to do something to contain that kind of beauty- drink him, ingest him, sneak into his shirt and hide for the rest of one's natural life."

-- Jane Hamilton

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“I was born a long way from where I belong and I am on my way home.”
“One thing must be avoided at all costs: narrow-mindedness, pedantry, dull pettiness.”
“If people base their identity on identifying with authority, freedom causes anxiety. They must then conceal the victim in themselves by resorting to violence against others.”
“To be entirely honest, I am an extremely confident person, and I don't think I would have gotten into this business if I felt that I wasn't going to succeed and I intend to be in this business, for the rest of my life.”
“Carried by light, images remain while sensation is so evanescent as to be always beyond belief.”

Source : Rae Armantrout (2010). “Versed”, p.11, Wesleyan University Press
“A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.”
“[On the volcano.] And many a fire there burns beneath the ground.”

Source : "The Fragments of Empedocles". Book by Empedocles, translated by William Ellery Leonard, 1908.
“An idea in man is first impressed upon him and afterwards expressed in things, but in God it is only expressed, not impressed, because it does not come from anywhere else.”

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