Antonya Nelson
Author
"There are a thousand things to hear about, informationally, daily, but the thing that doesn't go away is the one to pay attention to."
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Going Away
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Katie MacAlister
Author
"You are too arrogant for your own good. I officially de-mate you. Go away. I never want to see you again. Except maybe tonight. Naked. Your place. But after that, no more."
Saint Augustine
Theologian, Philosopher
"You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run."
Pascal Mercier
Author
"We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place. We stay there even though we go away and there are things in us we can find again only by going back there. We travel to ourselves when we go to a place. We have covered a stretch of our life no matter how brief it may have been but by traveling to ourselves we must confront our own loneliness. And isn’t it so that everything we do is done out of fear of our loneliness? Isn’t that why we renounce all the things we will regret at the end of our life?"
Carole King
Singer-songwriter
"It's a very worthy cause. This should happen, and I do believe that tenacity counts. Not going away matters."
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"There is no coming toward it or going away from it; it is, and you are it."
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"It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home."
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"Death has nothing to do with going away.The sun sets The moon sets But they are not gone."
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"When you live alone you no longer know what it is to tell a story: the plausible disappears at the same time as the friends. You let events flow by too: you suddenly see people appear who speak and then go away; you plunge into stories of which you can't make head or tail: you'd make a terrible witness."
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"Does pain go away and leave no trace, then?’ ‘You sometimes even feel sentimental for it."
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"Give me one good reason why I should never make a change, baby if you hold me then all of this will go away."
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"For both the offender and the victim, the pain is there, often unacknowledged and that is when it can cause harm through festering. When I ignore a physical wound, it does not go away. No, it festers and goes bad."
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"The desktop metaphor was invented because one, you were a stand-alone device, and two, you had to manage your own storage. That's a very big thing in a desktop world. And that may go away. You may not have to manage your own storage. You may not store much before too long."
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"It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere."
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"Scars fade with time. And the ones that never go away, well, they build character, maturity, caution."
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"For me, if somebody tells me to go away, that is an opportunity for me to give them a better life. And that's an opportunity for me to know and realize where not to be. It's an opportunity for me to see what could be better than being with that person I love."
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"When you start to build self-worth and redeem your magnificence, the fears go away... you void your fears via your realization of your own self-worth."
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"If we can remember the feeling of love we once had, we can die without ever going away."
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"Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don't want any more of your meretricious persiflage."
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"If there is suffering, then it's best to accept it, because it won't go away just because you pretend it's not there. If there is joy, then it's best to accept that too, even though you're afraid it might end one day."
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"I realize that some people see going away as, "Oh, he's irrelevant now," but I feel like if I don't go away, I get sick of myself. It's never been my thing to be in the spotlight all the time."
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"Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away."
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"It's impossible to have met the real Jesus and be indifferent. You either bow down in wonder OR go away offended."
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"My second piece of advice is to stay global. As the world continues to change and we become more connected to each other, globalization will bring both benefits and disruptions to our lives. But either way, it's here, and it's not going away."
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"I don't care about vacations. I go away and I come back real quick because I like my work. I really like my work to consume me."
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