#itself

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#beautiful thing #course #itself #most #most beautiful

It should consist of short, sharply focused sentences, each of which is a whole scene in itself. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#each #focused #itself #scene #sentences

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#anticipation #change #happy #itself #life

Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment. ↗

— Ben Jonson

#fury #itself #like #mind #punishment

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

#all things #attempts #burden #excuse #feels

Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#alters #beloved #does #itself #love

Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

#attention spans #because #do you know #does #i

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude. ↗

— Joseph Wood Krutch

#gratitude #itself #kind

A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew clearly without a home, just the object itself, like a glass or an apple. ↗

— Philip Roth

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Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to gradually decline. ↗

— Philip Roth

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