Rene Daumal Quotes
A knife is neither true nor false, but anyone impaled on its blade is in error.
Rene Daumal
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My father writings stuff was always his personal stuff, like about the day we had to put our dog down, or finding old photographs of his father, or passing a guy he went to boarding school with on a street in New York. Very specific, detailed, descriptive columns that he wrote. I think in a way, it could be argued that my best songs are that way too. They're almost journalistic in that they're very clear, and very specific, and they describe things.
Loudon Wainwright III
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The pride of learning is against the dependent humility of prayer.
Edward McKendree Bounds
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I didn't see him, but I heard the noise and wondered what was going on. It was great he came by.
Phil Jackson
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I am deeply concerned by the current security situation in Kosovo. Violent incidents over the last few days have again led to loss of life and pose a grave risk to the cease-fire.
Javier Solana
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And the guelder rose In a great stillness dropped, and ever dropped, Her wealth about her feet.
Jean Ingelow
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The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame.
William Cowper
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I am convinced that God is love, this thought has for me a primitive lyrical validity. When it is present to me, I am unspeakably blissful, when it is absent, I long for it more vehemently than does the lover for his object.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Ring the alarum-bell! Blow, wind! come, wrack! At least we'll die with harness on our back.
William Shakespeare
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There is a general sense of guarded optimism. There have been too many false dawns over the last 60 years. There have been more tears than smiles, but I sense there is a commitment from Abbas and Sharon, a new determination to make a reality of the goal of two states living side by side.
Jack Straw
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Music, the knife without a hilt.
Dorothy Dunnett
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A knife is neither true nor false, but anyone impaled on its blade is in error.
Rene Daumal
