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Diane Ackerman
: Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.
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Henry glanced hastily at the mirror. Yes, he did look rather old. He must have overdone some of the lines on his forehead. He looked something between a youngish centenarian and a nonagenarian who had seen a good deal of trouble.
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Emile Durkheim :
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The wise man, knowing how to enjoy achieved results without having constantly to replace them with others, finds in them an attachment to life in the hour of difficulty. But the man who has always pinned all his hopes on the future and lived with his eyes fixed upon it, has nothing in the past as a comfort against the present's afflictions, for the past was nothing to him but a series of hastily experienced stages. What blinded him to himself was his expectation always to find further on the happiness he had so far missed. Now he is stopped in his tracks; from now on nothing remains behind or ahead of him to fix his gaze upon.
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Thomas Carlyle :
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We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our own position in it. Let us, instead of gazing idly into the obscure distance, look calmly around us, for a little, on the perplexed scene where we stand. Perhaps, on a more serious inspection, something of its perplexity will disappear, some of its distinctive characters and deeper tendencies more clearly reveal themselves; whereby our own relations to it, our own true aims and endeavors in it, may also become clearer.
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Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave.
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John Ruskin :
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It is not, truly speaking, the labor that is divided; but the men: divided into mere segments of men --broken into small fragments and crumbs of life, so that all the little piece of intelligence that is left in a man is not enough to make a pin, or a nail, but exhausts itself in making the point of a pin or the head of a nail.
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Herman Melville :
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Let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God.
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The secret to life is that there is no secret.
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Secrets travel fast in Paris.
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Henry Ward Beecher :
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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A secret between two is God's secret, between three is all men s.
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George Bernard Shaw :
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There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.
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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
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There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
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Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.
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We live on the leash of our senses.
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Diane Ackerman:
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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
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Diane Ackerman:
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A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.
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There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.
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It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.
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Diane Ackerman:
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Human beings are sloshing sacks of chemicals on the move.
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