Emmanuel Levinas Quotes
A miracle entails a degree of irrationality-not because it shocks reason, but because it makes no appeal to it.
Quotes to Explore
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No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying.
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Not only are Feiglin's people radicals and fascists but also the bearers of severe personal disturbances, which hide behind a layer of patriotic make-up under the camouflage of the Jewish faith.
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I'm not interested in celebrity.
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Politicians make mistakes. People misspeak in public. God knows I have proven both. A lot.
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In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.
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I like books that expose me to people unlike me and books that do battle against caricature or simplification. That, to me, is the heroic in fiction.
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My mother read me biblical stories at night.
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The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.
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O poeta é um fingidor.Finge tão completamenteQue chega a fingir que é dorA dor que deveras sente.
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American research and resources have literally changed the face of humanity, by tackling deadly and once-deadly diseases.
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He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.
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My varying pairs of legs can be quite practical or quite impractical, and I don't judge them either way. Some are for getting around a 12-hour day, pounding the pavement, and some are to feel like I can transform my own body into a workable, changing piece of art.
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Time has always been very important in my work.
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I never understood why anyone cared about the Kardashians until a friend, who's Latina, told me that she liked them because they're a family who look like hers. I was able to appreciate them differently.
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The best thing I ever did in my life was to ask, 'Do I like everybody?' And the answer was, 'No.' So why should everybody like me? If people are against me, so what? I'm against them too.
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Stand a little less between me and the sun.
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I've been writing on my own. It's like Roger Miller used to say, every now and then, like a dog having puppies, you have to crawl under the house and do it yourself.
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At last, in the dead of the night, when the street was very still indeed, Little Dorrit laid the heavy head upon her bosom, and soothed her to sleep. And thus she sat at the gate, as it were alone; looking up at the stars, and seeing the clouds pass over them in their wild flight-which was the dance at Little Dorrit's party.
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Yoga carves you into a different person - and that is satisfying physically.
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I wish I wasn't so fragile . 'Cos I know that I'm not easy to handle
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Los Angeles has interested me for a long time. I was in Texas for five years, for the same reason. I wanted to photograph there.
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A miracle entails a degree of irrationality-not because it shocks reason, but because it makes no appeal to it.
