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• If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Life, Flavor, Ifs

  "Tomorrow Is Now" by Eleanor Roosevelt, (p. 80), 1963.

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• When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Quoted in Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor: The Years Alone (1972)

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• I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

  Leo Rosten

  Believe, People, Atheism

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• Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Philosophical, Desire, Philosopher

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  What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

  Salman Rushdie

  Honesty, Integrity, Expression

  Salman Rushdie (1990). “In good faith”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

  John Ruskin

  Beauty, Light, Shadow

  John Ruskin (1888). “Modern Painters (Complete)”, p.743, Library of Alexandria

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• A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Inspirational, Life, Creativity

  "Flight to Arras". Book by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, 1942.

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• Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Confidence, Courage, Fear

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• War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits her reproductivity and human life is no longer a thing to be wasted.

  Margaret Sanger

  War, Limits, Poverty

  Margaret Sanger (2005). “Woman and the New Race”, p.7, Cosimo, Inc.

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• One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Death, Existence Of Life, Existentialism

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Saint Genet: Actor and Martyr”, p.2, U of Minnesota Press

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• Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Learning, Responsibility, Exercise

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• The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.

  Walter Scott

  Life, Power, Men

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• But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Tree, Soul, Humanity

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein Or the Modern Prometheus”

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• There is a stage you reach, Deagle thinks, a time somewhere in early middle age, when your past ceases to be about yourself. Your connection to your former life is like a dream or delirium, and that person who you once were is merely a fond acquaintance, or a beloved character from a storybook. This is how memory becomes nostalgia. They are two very different things - the same way that a person is different from a photograph of a person.

  Dan Chaon

  Love, Dream, Memories

  "Stay Awake". Book by Dan Chaon, February 7, 2012.

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• I haven't any language weak enough to depict the weakness of my spiritual life. If I weakened it enough it would cease to be language at all. As when you try to turn the gas-ring a little lower still, and it merely goes out.

  C. S. Lewis

  Spiritual, Trying, Weakness

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• The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings. Viewed by this light it becomes a coherent scheme, and not the monstrous maze the laity are apt to think it. Let them but once clearly perceive that its grand principle is to make business for itself at their expense, and surely they will cease to grumble.

  Charles Dickens

  Thinking, Light, Law

  1852-3 Bleak House, ch.39.

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• I read and am liberated. I acquire objectivity. I cease being myself and so scattered. And what I read, instead of being like a nearly invisible suit that sometimes oppresses me, is the external world’s tremendous and remarkable clarity, the sun that sees everyone, the moon that splotches the still earth with shadows, the wide expanses that end in the sea, the blackly solid trees whose tops greenly wave, the steady peace of ponds on farms, the terraced slopes with their paths overgrown by grape-vines.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Moon, Objectivity, Sea

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• The best stories I have heard were pointless, the best books those whose plot I can never remember, the best individuals those whom I never get anywhere with. Though it has been practised on me time and again I never cease to marvel how it happens that with certain individuals whom I know, within a few minutes after greeting them we are embarked on an endless voyage comparable in feeling and trajectory only to the deep middle dream which the practised dreamer slips into like a bone slips into its sockets

  Henry Miller

  Dream, Book, Feelings

  Henry Miller (1958). “The Colossus of Maroussi”, p.71, New Directions Publishing

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• One day a long time from now you'll cease to care anymore whom you please or what anybody has to say about you. That's when you'll finally produce the work you're capable of.

  J. D. Salinger

  Long, One Day, Care

  "Other People's Secrets" by Joyce Maynard, www.sfgate.com. September 13, 1998.

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• At some point as adults we cease to be our parents' children and we become our children's parents instead.

  William Landay

  Children, Parent, Adults

  William Landay (2012). “Defending Jacob: A Novel”, p.71, Delacorte Press

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• Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him, for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low, could still be saved; the bitterest enemy and also he who was your friend could again be your friend; love that has grown cold can kindle.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Hope, Falling In Love, Giving Up

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• If we one day cease to exist, what will be remarkable is that we were ever here at all.

  Nick Harkaway

  One Day, Remarkable, Ifs

  Nick Harkaway (2008). “The Gone-Away World”, p.146, Random House

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• May the peace of God be with you," she says, her voice low, "even in the midst of trouble." "Why would it?" I say softly, so no one else can hear. "After all I've done..." "It isn't about you," she says. "It is a gift. You cannot earn it, or it ceases to be a gift.

  Veronica Roth

  Voice, Done, May

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• Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be… And thou, O Lord, art more than they.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Art, Littles, Lord

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) prologue

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• ...and it strikes her, as she walks, that borders, like hatred, are exaggerated precisely because otherwise they would cease to exist altogether. 

  Colum McCann

  Hatred, Borders, Strikes

  "Zoli". Book by Colum McCann, 2007.

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