"Saints cannot arise where there have been no warriors, nor philosophers where a prying beast does not remain hidden in the depths."
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"In life, the first act is always exciting but it is the second act - that's where the depth comes in."
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"The images of Myth are reflections of Spiritual and Depth potentialities of every one of us. Through contemplating those we evoke those powers in our own lives to operate through ourselves."
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"Even mud gives the illusion of depth."
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"The silence in the room had width, height, depth, mass and substance."
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"There are moments in life when all we can bear is the sense that our friend is near us; our wounds would wince at the touch of consoling words, that would reveal the depths of our pain."
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"Have the depth of faith to regard everything as a source for creating happiness and value."
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"Peace will be realized only by forging bonds of trust between people at the deepest level, in the depths of their very lives."
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"By a monstrous act of reductionism, the infinite depth of who you are is confused with a sound produced by the vocal cords." (p. 28)"
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"Anthony Heilbut has been a guide and a mentor to me. I know of no one who has the love and depth of knowledge of this extraordinary author."
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"The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found."
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"The whole history of man is continuous proof of the maxim that to divest one's methods of ethical concepts means to sink into the depths of utter demoralization."
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"Since we are mortal, friendships are best kept to a moderate level, rather than sharing the very depths of our souls."
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"Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship."
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"The dictum that human nature cannot be changed is one of those tiresome platitudes that conceal from the ignorant the depths of their own ignorance."
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"If I do talk politics it's very surface, it's not in-depth."
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"Thomas Teal, a luminous translator of Jansson's twin talent for surface and depth, simplicity and reverberation in language, and someone who knows exactly how to convey her gift for sensing the meaning embedded in the most mundane act or turn of phrase."
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"An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best."
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"she acquired the certainty of the expansion of time by depth of emotion, range and infinite multiplicity of experience."
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"I can't eat. I can never eat when I'm in the depths of despair."
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