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The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it? ↗

— Georges Duhamel

#afloat #beyond #himself #his #horizon

My family has been amazing, and they understand how blessed I am. They've been able to keep my sense of humor. ↗

— Karen Duffy

#am #amazing #been #blessed #family

We love the beautiful and serene, but we have a feeling as deep as love for the terrible and dark. ↗

— Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

#beauty

I'd love to write something for a male protagonist. That's sort of the next frontier for me. I think it'd be really amazing to write the kind of parts that I love for women but for a guy. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#frontier #guy #i #i love #i think

If you're writing, you're starting in private. It can really be this amazing, private, freeing experience. Forget that it's for other people - that comes in later. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#comes #experience #forget #freeing #later

The intense campaigns against domestic violence, rape, sexual harassment, and inequity in the schools all too often depend on an image of women as weak and victimized. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

#campaigns #depend #domestic #harassment #image

I need to broaden my horizons. ↗

— Trevor Dunn

#horizons #i #need

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within. ↗

— Ariel Durant

#conquered #destroyed #great #itself #until

Education is the transmission of civilization. ↗

— Ariel Durant

#education #transmission

Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity. ↗

— Will Durant

#civilization #cultural #freedom #order #promoting