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Jane Green Author
Heart

"Life, Steffi has learned, carries on around the pain, making room for it, absorbing it until it becomes part of the daily fabric, wrapping itself around you and lodging itself in your heart."

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Janet Malcolm Journalist, Author
Heart

"Poets and novelists and playwrights make themselves, against terrible resistances, give over what the rest of us keep safely locked within our hearts."

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher, Writer, Composer
Heart

"It is as if my heart and my brain did not belong to the same person. Feelings come quicker than lightning and fill my soul, but they bring me no illumination; they burn me and dazzle me."

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher, Writer, Composer
Heart

"Our passions are the chief means of self-preservation; to try to destroy them is therefore as absurd as it is useless; this would be to overcome nature, to reshape God's handiwork. If God bade man annihilate the passions he has given him, God would bid him be and not be; He would contradict himself. He has never given such a foolish commandment, there is nothing like it written on the heart of man, and what God will have a man do, He does not leave to the words of another man. He speaks Himself; His words are written in the secret heart."

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Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher, Writer
Heart

"To whomever gives a kiss or a blow Render a kiss or blow But to whomever gives when you are unable to return Offer all the hatred in your heart For you were slaves and he enslaves you"

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Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher, Writer
Heart

"I’ve dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear, fold me to your heart – and you’ll see how nice I can be."

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Jiddu Krishnamurti Philosopher, Speaker
Heart

"Truth is something which you must see immediately — and to see something clearly you must give your heart and your mind and your whole being to it immediately."

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Jiddu Krishnamurti Philosopher, Speaker
Heart

"To concentrate implies bringing all your energy to focus on a certain point; but thought wanders away... Whereas attention has no control, no concentration. It is complete attention, which means giving all your energy, the energy of the brain, your heart, everything, to attending."

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Joaquin Miller Poet, Writer
Heart

"Is it worthwhile that we jostle a brother, Bearing his load on the rough road of life? Is it worthwhile that we jeer at each other, In blackness of heart - that we war to the knife? God pity us all in our pitiful strife"

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