"The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving."
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"I was surprised, as always, be how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility."
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"There's a difference between losing your salvation and leaving your salvation. If you lose something, you don't know where to find it. You can't lose your salvation because you always know where to find it; you can only leave it."
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"By using stale metaphors, similes and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only for your reader but for yourself."
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"I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven."
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"There are legitimate concerns and anxieties that the forces of globalisation are leaving too many people behind - and we have to take those concerns seriously and address them. But the answer isn't to turn inward and embrace protectionism. We can't just walk away from trade."
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"Why do I always meet women as I'm leaving the dog park with a big bag of poop? And it's always on the day I forgot my dog."
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"Leaving a role is a terrible sadness. The last day of the shooting is surreal. Your soul, your body and your mind are not ready at all to see the end of this experience. In the following months after a film shoot, one feels a deep sense of void."
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"I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it"
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"Every house guest brings you happiness. Some when they arrive, and some when they are leaving"
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"But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on, Leaving no tract behind."
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"Being offended is a natural consequence of leaving the house."
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"I have had to pay a price for leaving Islam and for speaking out. I have to pay for round-the-clock security because of the death threats against me."
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"I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail, leaving a trail of the human presence and memory trace of past events, as the snail leaves its slime."
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"One reason why I am quite angry with what is happening in Nigeria today is that everything has collapsed. If I decide to go back now, there will be so many problems - where will I find the physical therapy and other things that I now require?"
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"Leaving aside the mysteries and the inequities of human talent, brains, taste, and reputations, the matter of art in photography may come down to this: it is the capture and projection of the delights of seeing; it is the defining of observation full and felt."
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"Not partial membership of the European Union or anything that leaves us half in, half out. No, the United Kingdom is leaving the European Union."
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"Without the truth of the people, politics degenerates into mere spectacle and democracy declines, leaving demagoguery and cynicism to fill the void."
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"There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale."
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"Pain is weakness leaving your body."
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