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• I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.

  Sylvia Plath

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Soul, Excellent

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3, l. 90

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• To say goodbye is to die a little.

  Raymond Chandler

  Goodbye, Littles, Dies

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Long Goodbye: A Novel”, p.336, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

  Sylvia Plath

  Heartbreak, Home, Long

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.23, Anchor

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• You cannot save people. You can only love them.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Life, People

  "The Diary Of Anais Nin, Volume Two (1934-1939)". Book by Anais Nin, 1970.

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• The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered.

  William Irwin Thompson

  Science, Abstract

  William Irwin Thompson (1987). “Gaia, a Way of Knowing: Political Implications of the New Biology”, Inner Traditions International

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• Of course, the EU is not going to fall apart, but at best it will stagnate for the foreseeable future and we will be dealing with quite a lot of internal chaos.

  Peter Mandelson

  Fall, Internals, Courses

  "Interview: EU trade chief Peter Mandelson". Interview with Gareth Harding, www.upi.com. April 25, 2005.

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• Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Men, Feelings, Enthusiasm

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• I am so close, I may look distant.

  Rumi

  Looks, May

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• Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

  Eric Hoffer

  Creativity, Order, Introducing

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• I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?

  Federico Fellini

  Thinking, Voice, Confusion

  "I'm a Born Liar: A Fellini Lexicon". Book edited by Damian Pettigrew, December 1, 2003.

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• As a restaurateur, my job is to basically control the chaos and the drama. There's always going to be chaos in the restaurant business.

  Rocco DiSpirito

  Jobs, Drama, Restaurants

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• A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

  Annie Dillard

  Time, Hands, Schedules

  "The Writing Life". Book by Annie Dillard, 1989.

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• Most people go, I wish for world peace. But chaos has a place in balancing out the light and the dark in the world. I don't know if I would wish for world peace.

  Brendan Fraser

  Dark, Light, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Change, Bureaucracy, Interest

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• Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Agility, Irony, Consciousness

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• We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Intellectual

  Interview With Joseph Pearce, www.catholiceducation.org. February, 2003.

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• Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Reality, Ingredients, Individual

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1974). “Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce”, p.289, Harvard University Press

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• But the higher a man mounts, the greater may be his fall; all genius is a conquering of chaos, mystery.

  Otto Weininger

  Genius, Mystery, Conquer

  "Sex & Character".

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• The world is chaos. Nothingness is the yet-to-be-born god of the world.

  Georg Buchner

  World, Born, Nothingness

  "Danton's Death". Play by Georg Büchner, Act IV, 1835.

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• The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.

  William Irwin Thompson

  Nature, Purpose, Conscious

  William Irwin Thompson (1987). “Gaia, a Way of Knowing: Political Implications of the New Biology”, Inner Traditions International

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• The fact that New York continues in the face of all of the chaos, of the crime, of the madness, you just think that it would just pop and vanish, just explode.

  Spalding Gray

  New York, Thinking, Faces

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• My son is not wild about going back to Iraq, but he'd sure rather do that than sacrifice all that he and his fellow soldiers have accomplished by leaving too early and inviting chaos.

  Christopher Bond

  Son, Sacrifice, Iraq

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• I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy.

  Oscar Levant

  Art, Men, Study

  "TIME" Magazine, May 5, 1958.

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• Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.

  Balthus

  Order, Emotion, Painting

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