"A work of art is great to the extent that to encounter it is to be changed."
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"The good or bad is not in the circumstance, but only in the mind...that encounters it."
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"The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it."
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"This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions."
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"Thus, human existence-at least as long as it has not been neurotically distorted-is always directed to something, or someone, other than itself, be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter lovingly."
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"Creativity occurs in an act of encounter and is to be understood with this encounter as its center."
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"Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago."
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"The circumstances which a man encounters with suffering are the result of his own mental inharmony."
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"It is in the encounter of the maternal guiding instincts with the sensitive periods of the newly born that conscious love develops between parent and child."
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"Solitude is the place of purification and transformation, the place of the great struggle and the great encounter."
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"All my work, my life, everything I do is about survival, not just bare, awful, plodding survival, but survival with grace and faith. While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated."
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"You have to deal with what you encounter. But you must not be reduced. And so a way not to be reduced is don't whine! Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low."
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"Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age."
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"A moment’s encounter can decide the direction of one’s entire life"
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"If you encounter someone who pronounces the t in often, odds are they're a douchebag."
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"The Christian life is participation in the encounter of Christ with the world."
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"You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated"
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"Whoever lives sincerely and encounters much trouble and disappointment without being bowed down is worth more than one who has always sailed before the wind and has only known prosperity."
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"The novels we read allow us to encounter possible persons, visions of ourselves that we would never see, never permit ourselves to become, in places we can never go and might not care to, while assuring that we get to return home again."
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"The Internet is manic. It's very strange. I don't think it's healthy. They should outlaw posting comments! It's a bummer to go somewhere to get information or buy tickets and you encounter profanity everywhere you go."
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