"Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain."

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Source : Margaret Fuller, Joel Myerson (1978). “Margaret Fuller: Essays on American Life and Letters”, p.87, Rowman & Littlefield

Margaret Fuller

#Soul Quotes #Failing Quotes

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”

Source : Italo Calvino (2017). “The Uses of Literature”, p.134, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture to national defense”
“Humility, if it comes at all, almost always comes too late.”
“You can either waste time worrying about a death that might not come or concentrate on whatâ€™s left to you.”
“Now, I don't expect what I write to change things. I think I write now simply as a witness. This is how it is. This is what we have done. This is what we have permitted.”
“If you take Darwin's theory and extend it to its logical end, it can be used to justify a number of very horrendous things.”
“I have gas mask in my office because I took Chem/bio warfare training class so I can report in case of an attack. Itâ€™s on a copy of my head made by Madame Tussauds”
“When I write I am trying to express my way of being in the world. This is primarily a process of elimination: once you have removed all the dead language, the second-hand dogma, the truths that are not your own but other people's, the mottos, the slogans, the out-and-out lies of your nation, the myths of your historical moment - once you have removed all that warps experience into a shape you do not recognise and do not believe in - what you are left with is something approximating the truth of your own conception.”

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