#awaken

The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it. ↗

— Robert Musil

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It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality above idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their direction, and he awakens them. ↗

— Robert Musil

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All human males were as fascinated with cars as they were with breasts. ↗

— Anita Clenney

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A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations. ↗

— Patricia Neal

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One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most. ↗

— Walter Pater

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My appointed work is to awaken the divine nature that is within. ↗

— Peace Pilgrim

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If a Labour movement, on a bourgeois basis, has hitherto existed in the country where the new movement is awakening it will certainly not disappear all at once. ↗

— Karl Radek

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What we hear while we are asleep continues to resonate with us upon awakening. ↗

— Henry Reed

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When we awaken, we cannot account for the time spent. We simply don't remember. About the only evidence we have of experiences while we were asleep is when we happen to remember a dream. ↗

— Henry Reed

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