#depth

Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair. ↗

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

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I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered. ↗

— Otto Dix

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A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there. ↗

— Meister Eckhart

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The corals do not look much worn, but still appear to have been dead. There are some delicate shells of molluscs from depths beyond 500 fathoms, where they were certainly living. ↗

— Edward Forbes

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One does not allow the plumbers to decide the temperature, depth and timing of a bath. ↗

— Jack Gould

#bath #decide #depth #does #temperature

Shyness is just egoism out of its depth. ↗

— Penelope Keith

#egoism #just #out #shyness

I play music, I paint - these things come from your depths. ↗

— John Lurie

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You can be interested in a Jane Smiley novel whether or not anyone says a word. She enters into her characters' thoughts with great understanding and depth. ↗

— Richard Russo

#characters #depth #enters #great #her

We are so overwhelmed with quantities of books, that we hardly realize any more that a book can be valuable, valuable like a jewel, or a lovely picture, into which you can look deeper and deeper and get a more profound experience very time. It is far, far better to read one book six times, at intervals, than to read six several books. ↗

— D.H. Lawrence

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