Nelly Sachs Quotes
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The options are war versus peace, and I am delighted that, so far, it appears that peaceful negotiation has won the day.
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I do my best to stay away from dairy, especially ice cream. I've become a cookie monster whenever I want to mess around and eat something cheap.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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To be a great actor, you really don't need to go to acting school or learn dance classes or work on your body. You have to be intelligent. You have to draw on a lot of emotions that you go through in life that you can tap into once you work on a set.
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I am happy that I have entertained people and made them happy.
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Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.
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Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.
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No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.
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A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
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Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.
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People who devote themselves to a life of style are admirable.
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The Synod of Bishops has existed for forty years. In that long span of time it has been for all of us a good school for introducing us to the universal dimension of the Church.
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And yet it moves.
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When I did make the decision to focus on acting, I think my mother was just relieved for me that I had finally started to focus.
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I'm admittedly not that into the Internet.
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Radicalization is very easy when you mock what people hold dear.
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I could have gone on flying through space forever.
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In both law and politics, I think the essential battle is the meta-battle of framing the narrative.
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Truth is harder to bear than ignorance, and so ignorance is valued more- also because the status quo depends on it; but love depends on self-knowledge and self-knowledge depends on being able to bear the truth.
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My mother's greatest joy in life was to make people laugh.
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We believe in freedom, freedom for the people of each country to follow their destiny without external interference.
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Women, despite the fact that nine out of ten of them go through life with a death-bed air either of snatching-the-last-moment or with martyr-resignation, do not die tomorrow--or the next day. They have to live on to any one of many bitter ends.
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We breathed the air of freedom without knowing the language or any person.
