Naguib Mahfouz
Novelist
"Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease."
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Cease
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Thomas Merton
Writer, Monk
"In Silence God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"We don't grow old. When we cease to grow, we become old."
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Philosopher, Speaker
"The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth."
Thomas Merton
Writer, Monk
"Violence is not completely fatal until it ceases to disturb us."
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"I never cease to amaze myself. And I say this humbly"
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"Where poverty ceases, avarice begins."
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"We can never cease to be ourselves."
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"[L]ife ceases to be a fraction and becomes an integer."
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"Not to love is to cease to live."
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"The word liberal comes from the word free. We must cherish and honor the word free or it will cease to apply to us."
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"Life and hope must cease together."
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"Seek the sound that never ceases. Seek the sun that never sets."
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"I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious."
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"To cease to think creatively is to cease to live"
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"There is a state when words cease and silence prevails."
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"A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy."
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"In the now, time ceases to exist and we experience a presence that is all-absorbing, completely at peace, and totally satisfying."
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"We shall not cease from exploration"
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"Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases"
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"When the striving ceases, there is life waiting as a gift."
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"You cease to be afraid when you cease to hope; for hope is accompanied by fear."
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"Envy feeds on the living. It ceases when they are dead."
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"What is most important is to cease legislating for all lives what is liveable only for some, and similarly, to refrain from proscribing for all lives what is unlivable for some."
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"Allow a friend to believe in a bogus prospectus or a false promise and you cease, after a short while, to be a friend at all."
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