Francis Bacon Quotes
The eye of understanding is like the eye of the sense; for as you may see great objects through small crannies or levels, so you may see great axioms of nature through small and contemptible instances.
Quotes to Explore
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I know my life is nearing its end and I accept that.
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When you cease to dream you cease to live.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
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I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else's ideas of who you can or can't become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a 'Keep Out' sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.
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My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me. After that, when I can't play Wimbledon, it was tough. For one month I was outside the world.
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I'm very involved in the writing on every level.
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I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
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I was writing from the age of 10, and I was never really into going to discos and dances and stuff. I never told anyone at school that I did that because I feared it would alienate me even more.
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Pilates is great.
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Novels taught me that history is dramatic. I wanted my students to know that, too.
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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information. It seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight, if it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one's fellow travelers.
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It's a huge step up from the European Indoors to then being a gold medallist at the World Championships.
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The driving force for the Arabs is hatred of Israel. Hatred of the Jewish people.
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People can very quickly have a very poor self-image. It doesn't take much.
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I really hated fighting people and hurting them, but felt unable to stop.
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I would write these novels about bullies in school: 'The Bullies: a Novel.'
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There are different kinds of justice. Retributive justice is largely Western. The African understanding is far more restorative - not so much to punish as to redress or restore a balance that has been knocked askew.
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You will find the most pronounced hatred of other nations on the lowest cultural levels. There is, though, a level where the hatred disappears completely and where one so to speak stands above the nations and where one experiences fortune or misfortune of a neighboring country as if they had happened to one's own.
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How aware were photographers in the past of other visual arts? “No photographer of any distinction at all could approach his work without some awareness of what was going on in other visual media, and for that matter neither the painter nor the draughtsman could ignore photography.
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For five hundred years after Walther's death - until Goethe - no German lyric poet was his equal.
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The eye of understanding is like the eye of the sense; for as you may see great objects through small crannies or levels, so you may see great axioms of nature through small and contemptible instances.
