Henri Rousseau
Painter
"The universe was born restless and has never since been still."
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Restless
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Saint Augustine
Theologian, Philosopher
"Our heart is restless until it rests in You."
John Keats
Poet
"My mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it."
Friedrich Schiller
Playwright, Poet
"Time flies on restless pinions - constant never."
Rabindranath Tagore
Poet, Playwright, Novelist
"Come oh come ye tea-thirsty restless ones -- the kettle boils, bubbles and sings, musically."
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"Remember: if you can cease all restless activity, your integral nature will appear."
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"In person, George W. Bush is extremely forceful. He has a restless energy when he sits in a chair, and nearly leaps out of it when making certain points."
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"His heart, like mine, was ticking off the time allotted to his small restless body."
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"In most marriages, there is a contented partner and a restless one."
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"Ah, current music. What would that be? Ah, really, a lot of it sounds defective to me. It makes me restless."
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"I am a restless soul hungry perhaps wretched."
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"whose steps were a restless substitute for flight."
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"With battlements that on their restless fronts Bore stars."
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"I don't know where to place my body. Everyone notices that about me. I'm very restless."
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"Here is a thing which the more you fear and avoid it the nearer you approach to it, and this is misery; the more you flee from it the more miserable and restless you will become."
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"I have been restless for as long as I can remember."
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"I'm just a restless soul musically."
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"This will of Stirner's, this restless probing of all given knowledge, this endless questioning, and the continuous bending towards new understanding."
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