#descend

The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart. ↗

— Julien Green

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Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

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There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

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I thought I'd been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing young adult literature. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

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Perhaps most ridiculous of all is the suggestion that we 'keep' our radioactive garbage for the use of our descendants. This 'solution', I think, requires an immediate poll of the next 20,000 generations. ↗

— David R. Brower

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Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts. ↗

— Elizabeth I

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All of the guests on 'Faces of America' were deeply moved by what we revealed about their ancestry. We were able to trace the ancestry of Native American writer Louise Erdrich back to 438 A.D. We found that Queen Noor is descended from royalty, and that's before she married King Hussein of Jordan. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

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Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls. ↗

— Amy Lowell

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I started thinking about my relationship with my students; I'm this guy who comes in from book - and movie - land and descends on angel wings into their classroom. ↗

— Richard Price

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One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

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