"Liking is probably the best form of ownership, and ownership the worst form of liking."
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"The desert is no longer a landscape, it is a pure form produced by the abstraction of all others."
"Language is a form of organized stutter."
"We impose the form of the old on the content of the new."
"The rythms of typing favour short, concise sentences, sentences with oral form."
"Where are the forms the sculptor's soul hath seized? In him alone, Can nature show as fair?"
"Without form, the sensitiveness vanishes."
"No form of love is wrong, so long as it is love."
"People always form images of who others are, and they can be inflated images."
"Stress is a form of suffering."
"God is beyond all the forms of life, but also indwells every form of life as their essence. God is both beyond and within."
"Underneath your physical and psychological form, you are one with Life itself, one with Being."
"We can ill afford to have activities conducted as "non-profit," that is, as activities that devour capital rather than form it, if they can be organized as activities that form capital, as activities that make a profit."
"So now the floodgates are open to the delight of pure form, whatever its origin. Anything goes."
"Every form of talent involves a certain shameless-ness."
"The Things that never can come back, are several - Childhood - some forms of Hope - the Dead."
"Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?"
"That's true of every form of literature - each writer brings new things to it because each of us is an individual."
"Congress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops."
"The critics say that Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony has no form. They are wrong; it has the form of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony."