Quotes to Stay Determined · Page 170

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“Of course, this entire fabric of Indian life stands solidly on faith, that is to say, on a slender and emotional hypothesis.”

— Romain Rolland

“But amid all the beliefs of Europe, and of Asia, that of the Indian Brahmins seems to me infinitely the most alluring.”

— Romain Rolland

“Greater than all European philosophies, it is even capable of adjusting itself to the vast hypotheses of modern science.”

— Romain Rolland

“India, ever mindful of the natural differences in souls and in philosophies, endeavors to blend them into each other, so as to recreate in its fullest perfection the complete…”

— Romain Rolland

“The matching of opposites produces the true rhythm of life.”

— Romain Rolland

“Everything has its place, every being has its function, and all take part in the divine concert, their different voices, and their very dissonances, creating, in the phrase of…”

— Romain Rolland

“Never do I hesitate to look squarely at the unexpected face that every passing hour unveils to us, and to sacrifice the false images of it formed in advance, however dear they may…”

— Romain Rolland

“May life herself speak! However inadequate I may be in listening to her, and in repeating her words, I shall try to record them, even if they contradict my most secret desires.”

— Romain Rolland

“And this definition is something you may then carry with you for the rest of your life, trying to confirm it or extend or correct or deny it; but you can never eliminate it.”

— Italo Calvino

“The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together.”

— Italo Calvino

“The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it.”

— Italo Calvino

“The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure…”

— Italo Calvino

“What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space.”

— Italo Calvino

“Don't be amazed if you see my eyes always wandering. In fact, this is my way of reading, and it is only in this way that reading proves fruitful to me.”

— Italo Calvino

“The stimulus of reading is indispensable to me, and of meaty reading, even if, of every book, I manage to read no more than a few pages.”

— Italo Calvino

“But those few pages already enclose for me whole universes, which I can never exhaust.”

— Italo Calvino

“Following this visual trail, you have forced your way through the shop past the thick barricade of Books You Haven't Read, which were frowning at you from the tables and shelves…”

— Italo Calvino

“But it is the software that gives the orders, acting on the outside world and on machines that exist only as functions of software and evolve so that they can work out ever more…”

— Italo Calvino

“We must have passed through life very unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others.”

— Frederick William Faber

“The very attempt to be like our dearest Lord is already a well-spring of sweetness within us, flowing with an easy grace over all who come within our reach.”

— Frederick William Faber

“The sea, unmated creature, tired and lone, Makes on its desolate sands eternal moan.”

— Frederick William Faber

“Labour itself is but a sorrowful song, The protest of the weak against the strong.”

— Frederick William Faber

“Dear Lord! in all our loneliest pains Thou hast the largest share, And that which is unbearable 'Tis Thine, not ours, to bear.”

— Frederick William Faber

“Yesterday This Day's Madness did prepare; To-morrow's Silence, Triumph, or Despair: Drink! for you know not whence you came, nor why: Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.”

— Omar Khayyam

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