I sit in the dark. And it would be hard to figure out which is worse; the dark … - Joseph Brodsky - Quotesmemo.com

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It is obvious that Paul did not regard prayer as supplemental, but as fundamental-not something to be added to his work but the very matrix out of which his work was born. He was a man of action because he was a man of prayer. It was probably his prayer even more than his preaching that produced the kind of leaders we meet in his letters.

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Joseph Brodsky

I sit in the dark. And it would be hard to figure out which is worse; the dark inside, or the darkness out.

Dark, Darkness, Figure, Figures, Hard, Would Be

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Were we to choose our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much less grief on earth. I believe. . . that for someone who has read a lot of Dickens to shoot his like in the name of an idea is harder than for someone who has read no Dickens.

Believe, Grief, Harder, Political, Reading, Shoot

When the eye fails to find beauty-alias solace-it commands the body to create it, or, failing that, adjusts itself to perceive virtue in ugliness.

Body, Eye, Failing, Ugliness

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

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The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even - if you will - eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.

Evil, Extreme, Feigned, Happiness, Thinking

For darkness restores what light cannot repair.

Criminal Mind, Darkness, Light, Repair, Restores

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In the end, it was the Sunday afternoons he couldn't cope with, and that terrible listlessness which starts to set in at about 2:55, when you know that you've had all the baths you can usefully have that day, that however hard you stare at any given paragraph in the papers you will never actually read it, or use the revolutionary new pruning technique it describes, and that as you stare at the clock the hands will move relentlessly on to four o'clock, and you will enter the long dark teatime of the soul.

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J. Oswald Sanders

It is obvious that Paul did not regard prayer as supplemental, but as fundamental-not something to be added to his work but the very matrix out of which his work was born. He was a man of action because he was a man of prayer. It was probably his prayer even more than his preaching that produced the kind of leaders we meet in his letters.

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In the end, like so many beautiful promises in our lives, that dinner date never came to be.

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Gertrude Stein

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I say that Hitler ought to have the peace prize, because he is removing all the elements of contest and of struggle from Germany. By driving out the Jews and the democratic and Left element, he is driving out everything that conduces to activity. That means peace. . . By suppressing Jews. . . he was ending struggle in Germany.

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