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"If we lacked curiosity, we should do less for the good of our neighbor. But, under the name of duty or pity, curiosity steals into the home of the unhappy and the needy. Perhaps even in the famous mother-love there is a good deal of curiosity."
"Curiosity creeps into the houses of the unfortunate and the needy under the name of duty or of pity."
"Here the spirit becomes a lion who would conquer his freedom and be master… Who is the great dragon whom the spirit will no longer call lord and go? ‘Thou shalt’ is the name of the great dragon. But the spirit of the lion says, ‘I will."
"As a result, nature is something entirely different from what comes to mind when we invoke its name."
"Robinson had a servant even better than Friday: His name was Crusoe."
"Could truth perhaps be a woman who has reasons for not permitting her reasons to be seen? Could her name perhaps be--to speak Greek--Baubo?... Oh, those Greeks! They understood how to live: to do that it is necessary to stop bravely at the surface, the fold, the skin, to adore the appearance, to believe in forms, in tones, in words, in the whole Olympus of appearance! Those Greeks were superficial--out of profundity!"
"I have given a name to my pain, and call it "dog"."
"A virtuous name is the precious only good, for which queens and peasants' wives must contest together."
"James Parkinson. George Huntington. Robert Graves. John Down. Now this Lou Gehrig fellow of mine. How did men come to monopolize disease names too?"
"But the game involves only male names. Because, if it's a girl, Laila has already named her"
"It turned out that, like Satan, cancer had many names."
"And one more thing...You will never again refer to him as 'Hazara boy' in my presence. He has a name and it's Sohrab."
"Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names."
"Love passes by us, robed in meekness; but we flee from her in fear, or hide in the darkness; or else pursue her, to do evil in her name."
"The first part of my name, Khalil Gibran, seems to be paying huge dividends in terms of the artistic life of the poet from whom my name was inspired."
"Perhaps it will be simplest to throw away the tags and generalize India with one all-comprehensive name, as the Land of Wonders."
"You cannot have a theory without principles. Principles is another name for prejudices."
"What's your name?" "Becky Thatcher. What's yours? Oh, I know. It's Thomas Sawyer." "That's the name they lick me by. I'm Tom when I'm good. You call me Tom, will you?" "Yes"
"We called him Barney for short. We couldn't use his real name, there wasn't time."
"The minute we get reconciled to a person, how willing we are to throw aside little needless punctilios and pronounce his name right."
