Eva Heller Quotes
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Né spegner può, per starne l'acqua, il fuoco,Né può stato mutar, per mutar loco.
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[Detractors] are just wrong, and that's okay. They just don't see it yet. That's what I would tell myself to keep those moments of doubt, only moments.
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I don't want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard, I just want someone I can talk to, I want you just the way you are.
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No matter how much restriction civilization imposes on the individual, he nevertheless finds some way to circumvent it. Wit is the best safety valve modern man has evolved; the more civilization, the more repression, the more need there is for wit.".
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And oft I thought (my fancy was-so strong) That I, at last, a resting-place had found: 'Here: will I dwell,' said I,' my whole life long, Roaming the illimitable waters round; Here will I live, of all but heaven disowned. And end my days upon the peaceful flood - To break my dream the vessel reached its bound; And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.
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I have no question: It is enough, I know what fixed the station Of star and cloud. And knowing all, I cry. . . .
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I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed.
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Nobody controls me. I'm uncontrollable. The only one who can control me is me, and even that's barely possible.
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Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life.
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Ideas don't get smaller when they're shared, they get bigger.
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Prayer among men is supposed a means to change the person to whom we pray; but prayer to God doth not change him, but fits us to receive the things prayed for.
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You know you’re a good leader when people follow you out of curiosity.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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I am determined to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding.
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True nonattachment is understanding that you are fundamentally attached to everything and, through that understanding, dropping your attachment to the view that you are detached from that which you encounter. At the same time, real nonattachment means not clinging to things or people. It means dropping the idea that if you don't have this or if you can't get that, your life will be a catastrophe.
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There's no point in clinging to illusions.
