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A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk round the island nearly every day, yet I can see nothing anywhere but a mass of wet rock, a strip of surf, and then a tumult of waves. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#day #desolation #every #every day #exile

The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life. ↗

— Leon Edel

#fade #his #house #inner #into

I confess I've never felt like a passenger. ↗

— Roger Waters

#felt #i #like #never #passenger

When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect. ↗

— M. H. Abrams

#comes #complain #continue #effect #especially

Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores. ↗

— Arthur Chapman

#dwells #envy #fly #like #parts

Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. ↗

— Diane Arbus

#aristocrats #born #dreading #experience #freaks

What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error. ↗

— Raymond Aron

#error #intellectual #most #often #optimism

My ideas about time all developed from the realization that if nothing were to change we could not say that time passes. Change is primary, time, if it exists at all, is something we deduce from it. ↗

— Julian Barbour

#change #could #deduce #developed #exists

It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false. ↗

— Pierre Bayle

#down #entirely #false #generation #illusion

For example, UNICEF works with governments to change legislation such as in India where a law was passed raising the age of compulsory school completion to keep children in school and away from the workplace for longer. ↗

— Carol Bellamy

#away #change #children #completion #compulsory