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• We were that generation called silent, but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we shared the period's official optimism nor, as others thought, because we feared its official repression. We were silent because the exhilaration of social action seemed to many of us just one more way of escaping the personal, of masking for a while that dread of the meaningless which was man's fate.

  Joan Didion

  Fate, Men, Optimism

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Aug 24, 2011

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• There was no escaping by means of any journey, however adventurous, one took one's problems and sorrows with one.

  Elizabeth Aston

  Mean, Journey, Sorrow

  Elizabeth Aston (2006). “The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy: A Novel”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

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• No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Inspirational, Graduation, Education

  1967 In Partisan Review, Summer issue.

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• Whenever humanity seems condemned to heaviness, I think I should fly like Perseus into a different space. I don't mean escaping into dreams or into the irrational. I mean that I have to change my approach, look at the world from a different perspective, with a different logic and with fresh methods of cognition and verification.

  Italo Calvino

  Dream, Believe, Mean

  "Six Memos for the Next Millennium".

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• A writer's style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias...it is the Self escaping into the open.

  E. B. White

  Self, Style, Spirit

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• Whether a person is spiritual or not, we all seek to get away from the stress, anger, and anxiety of everyday life. Some people drink, do drugs, or do worse to escape, and they hurt themselves in the process. Some people listen to music, mine included, and feel better.

  Yanni

  Life, Motivational, Music

  Yanni (2003). “Yanni in Words”

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• Fare forward, travellers! not escaping from the past
  Into different lives, or into any future;
  You are not the same people who left that station
  Or who will arrive at any terminus,
  While the narrowing rails slide together behind you.

  T. S. Eliot

  Time, Past, People

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.170, Faber & Faber

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• Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life! Do not be concerned with escaping safely- lay your life before him!!

  Bruce Lee

  Life, Pain, Fighting

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.192, Tuttle Publishing

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• We are at home here. Alienation is unnecessary. Contact with reality at a deep level is part of the Christian's life. He enters into reality, rather than escaping from it. The flight from reality is a mark of Eastern and classical mysticism, not of Christianity.

  Hans Rookmaaker

  Christian, Art, Home

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• [N]either in war nor yet at law ought any man to use every way of escaping death. For often in battle there is no doubt that if a man will throw away his arms, and fall on his knees before his pursuers, he may escape death; and in other dangers there are other ways of escaping death, if a man is willing to say and do anything. The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.

  Socrates

  Running, War, Fall

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• Play, and escaping the ideology one grew up in, is freedom.

  Frank Bidart

  Play, Grew Up, Ideology

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• Keep an eye on the weather, which is changing faster than predicted, and on the new diseases escaping or being made, even as we speak. It's a race between new tech and biosphere bankruptcy, I'd say.

  Margaret Atwood

  Eye, Race, Weather

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• There is a tonic strength, in the hour of sorrow and affliction, in escaping from the world and society and getting back to the simple duties and interests we have slighted and forgotten. Our world grows smaller, but it grows dearer and greater. Simple things have a new charm for us, and we suddenly realize that we have been renouncing all that is greatest and best, in our pursuit of some phantom.

  William George Jordan

  Simple, Our World, Relaxation

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• Useless pursuits and conversations always about the same things absorb the better part of one's time, the better part of one's strength, and in the end there is left a life grovelling and curtailed, worthless and trivial, and there is no escaping or getting away from it—just as though one were in a madhouse or prison.

  Anton Chekhov

  Useless, Prison, Ends

  Anton Chekhov (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Anton Chekhov (Illustrated)”, p.2939, Delphi Classics

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• Meditation is nothing but coming to terms with your inner emptiness: recognizing it, not escaping; living through it, not escaping; being through it, not escaping. Then suddenly the emptiness becomes the fullness of life.

  Rajneesh

  Fullness Of Life, Meditation, Emptiness

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• To reverence the impersonal creation instead of the personal God who created us is a perversion designed for escaping moral accountability to the Creator. God indicts those who worship the creation instead of its Creator (Rom 1:18-23); and warns of the corruption of morals and behavior which results.

  Dave Hunt

  Atheist, Creator God, Accountability

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• Live with it. You live with pleasure, don't you? Why don't you live with suffering completely? Can you live with it in the sense of not escaping from it? What takes place? Watch. The mind is very clear, sharp. It is faced with the fact. The very suffering transformed into passion is enormous. From that arises a mind that can never be hurt. Full stop. That is the secret.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Sad, Hurt, Passion

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• The first rule for escaping prison in the United States is always having someone more important than yourself to incriminate.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Important, United States, Firsts

  Alan Dershowitz (2009). “Letters to a Young Lawer (Easyread Large Edition)”, p.89, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I was escaping from Nature and at last becoming myself, that Other whom I was aspiring to be in the eyes of others.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Nature, Eye, Lasts

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• When things fall apart, the children of the land scurry and scatter like birds escaping a burning sky....They will never be the same again because you cannot be the same once you leave behind who and what you are, you just cannot be the same....Look at them leaving in droves, despite knowing they will be welcomed with restraint in those strange lands because they do not belong

  NoViolet Bulawayo

  Children, Fall, Land

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• While it's really hard to do, at the same time, I'm escaping my body, which I really want to do. I'm living someone else's life. I get very intensely into the story, into the interviews and the research. I'm experiencing things along with my subjects. I have a freedom I don't have in my physical life

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Stories, Research, Body

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• Jesus makes you happy in reality. The world makes you happy escaping from reality.

  Jack Hyles

  Jesus, Reality, World

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• I think that physics is about escaping the prison of the received thoughts and searching for novel ways of thinking the world, about trying to clear a bit the misty lake of insubstantial dreams, which reflect reality like the lake reflects the mountains.

  Carlo Rovelli

  Dream, Reality, Thinking

  Carlo Rovelli (2007). “Quantum Gravity”, p.17, Cambridge University Press

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• A favorite means of escaping the solution to any problem is to declare it too complex for solution. This absolves us from attempting solution. ... Any problem is too complex to solve when we do not wish to accept the conditions of solution. Solution is possible where acceptance is ready.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Mean, Acceptance, Wish

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• Hair is the most delicate and lasting of our materials, and survives us, like love. It is so light, so gentle; so escaping from the idea of death, that, with a lock of hair belonging to a child or friend, we may almost look up to heaven and compare notes with the angelic nature,--may almost say, "I have a piece of thee here not unworthy of thy being now.

  Leigh Hunt

  Children, Like Love, Ideas

  Leigh Hunt (1870). “Men, Women, and Books: A Selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs from His Uncollected Prose Writings”, p.145

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