Quote by Saint Augustine
My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself f

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed… And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is. – Saint Augustine

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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels. – Saint Augustine

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If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing. – Saint Augustine

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The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes. – Arthur Miller

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All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience. – Henry Miller

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Truth be told, Im not an easy man. I can be an entertaining one, though its been my experience that most people dont want to be entertained. They want to be comforted. – Richard Russo

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When I was 27 years old, I organized legal aid clinics to help low-income seniors. It was a life-altering experience. – Ron Wyden

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Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance. – Arnold Glasow

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In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs. – Christopher Lasch

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The novel is born of disillusionment the poem, of despair. – Jose Bergamin

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