"To successfully open the door to heightened awareness, we must open it inward."
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"The great fact in life, the always possible escape from dullness, was the lake. The sun rose out of it, the day began there; it was like an open door that nobody could shut. The land and all its dreariness could never close in on you. You had only to look at the lake, and you knew you would soon be free."
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"Democracy means that when there's a knock in the door at 3 am, it's probably the milkman."
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"There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not."
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"The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end."
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"The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one's office for a job."
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"Unfortunately, it is much easier to shut one's eyes to good than to evil. Pain and sorrow knock at our doors more loudly than pleasure and happiness; and the prints of their heavy footsteps are less easily effaced."
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"The suppression of unnecessary offices, of useless establishments and expenses enabled us to discontinue our internal taxes. These covering our land with officers, and opening our doors to their intrusions, had already begun that process of domiciliary vexation which, once entered, is scarcely to be restrained from reaching successively every article of produce and property."
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"To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny."
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"The significance is that it is my challenge; it gets me out of the door every morning and it is good for my physical and mental health which I can monitor on a daily basis."
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"Be calm. God awaits you at the door."
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"I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, 'Ow, ow, put it back!'"
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"I'm still there, watching those possessed children, as far away from the mystery now as I was then. I've never written, though I thought I wrote, never loved, though I thought I loved, never done anything but wait outside the closed door."
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"Without going out of my door I can know all things on Earth."
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"Well I know the secret places, And the nests in hedge and tree; At what doors are friendly faces, In what hearts are thoughts of me."
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"He said that if culture is a house, then language was the key to the front door; to all the rooms inside. Without it, he said, you ended up wayward, without a proper home or a legitimate identity."
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"Beauty opened all the doors; it got me things I didn't even know I wanted, and things I certainly didn't deserve."
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"Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away... A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him."
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"Let no one destitute of geometry enter my doors."
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"Anger turns the mind out of doors and bolts the entrance."
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