Places You Live Quotes

• Objects should not touch because they are not alive. You use them, put them back in place, you live among them: they are useful, nothing more. But they touch me, it is unbearable. I am afraid of being in contact with them as though they were living beasts.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Nausea, Alive, Unbearable

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2013). “Nausea”, p.16, New Directions Publishing

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• Living alone,' November whispered, 'is a skill, like running long distance or programming old computers. You have to know parameters, protocols. You have to learn them so well that they become like a language: to have music always so that the silence doesn't overwhelm you, to perform your work exquisitely well so that your time is filled. You have to allow yourself to open up until you are the exact size of the place you live, no more or else you get restless. No less, or else you drown. There are rules; there are ways of being and not being.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Running, Distance, Skills

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• Whoever you may be, always have God before your eyes; whatever you do, do it according to the testimony of the holy Scriptures; in whatever place you live, do not easily leave it. Keep these three precepts and you will be saved.

  Anthony the Great

  Christian, Eye, Three

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• Respect the place you live, be aware of the impact that you have on things.

  Marion Cotillard

  Impact

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you're imaginatively responsible to the place you live in, you understand the watershed.

  Robert Hass

  Responsible, Watersheds, Ifs

  Interview with Sarah Pollock, www.motherjones.com. March/April, 1997.

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