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• The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water to bar the way for our return. We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness.

  Joseph Conrad

  Heart, Water, Darkness

  Joseph Conrad (2008). “Heart of Darkness and Other Tales”, OUP Oxford

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• In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of the gold. From the point of view of the lawful owner this gold is a gift; Form the point of view of the burglar it is a theft. He must go and give it back. It is the same with our existence. We have stolen a little of God's being to make it ours. God has made us a gift of it. But we have stolen it. We must return it.

  Simone Weil

  God, Views, Giving

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• I know it's hard to blame the time, but there's a bit of an expectation for a summer movie. I think that 'Superman Returns' was a bit nostalgic and romantic, and I don't think that was what people were expecting, especially in the summer.

  Bryan Singer

  Summer, Thinking, People

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• After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.

  Shmuel Yosef Agnon

  Jerusalem, Possession, Burned

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• If anybody starts using me as scenery, I'll return to New York.

  Grace Kelly

  New York, Scenery, Using Me

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• A city man is a home anywhere, for all big cities are much alike. But a country man has a place where he belongs, where he always returns, and where, when the time comes, he is willing to die.

  Edward Abbey

  Country, Home, Men

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.56, RosettaBooks

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• Venice seemed incredibly lovely, elvishly lovely--to me like a dream of Old Gondor, or Pelargir of the Numenorean Ships, before the return of the Shadow.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Dream, Venice, Lovely

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• No, my secrets are of the grave and must be kept. And this is how I sometimes think of myself, as a great explorer who has discovered some extraordinary land from which he can never return to give his knowledge to the world: but the name of this land is hell.

  Malcolm Lowry

  Thinking, Land, Names

  Malcolm Lowry (2012). “Under the Volcano: A Novel”, p.50, Open Road Media

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• I will leave the U.S Congress when the term for which I was elected expires in January 2011 and return to the practice of law with a sense of duty fulfilled

  Mario Diaz-Balart

  Law, Practice, January

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• It is to have a compulsive, repetitive, and nostalgic desire for the archive, an irrepressible desire to return to the origin, a homesickness, a nostalgia for the return to the most archaic place of absolute commencement

  Jacques Derrida

  Desire, Archives, Nostalgia

  Jacques Derrida (1998). “Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression”, p.100, University of Chicago Press

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• For a generation and more, the government has sought to meet our needs by multiplying its bureaucracy. Washington has taken too much in taxes from Main Street, and Main Street has received too little in return. It is not necessary to centralize power in order to solve our problems.

  George McGovern

  Taken, Government, Order

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• I think that Americans should gradually begin to adopt positive behavior rather than doing evil. They should not expect an immediate reaction in return for their positive measures. It will take time.

  Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

  Thinking, Evil, Behavior

  "Rafsanjani Urges U.S. to Begin Thaw in Ties". The New York Times Interview, May 19, 2005.

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• Who could not return from a visit to Jack Vance's world, without feeling that he had been somewhere unique, that he had experienced things unavailable in our mundane world?

  Robert Silverberg

  Unique, Feelings, World

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• I'm not trying to return to Reagan-Bush.

  Mitt Romney

  Trying, Flopping, Flip Flops

  "Romney: 'I learn from experience'". "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com.

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• There is a great good in returning to a landscape that has had extraordinary meaning in one's life. It happens that we return to such places in our minds irresistibly. There are certain villages and towns, mountains and plains that, having seen them walked in them lived in them even for a day, we keep forever in the mind's eye. They become indispensable to our well-being; they define us, and we say, I am who I am because I have been there, or there.

  N. Scott Momaday

  Travel, Memories, Eye

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• If we are so contemptibly selfish that we can’t radiate a little happiness and pass on a bit of honest appreciation without trying to screw something out of the other person in return—if our souls are no bigger than sour crab apples, we shall meet with the failure we so richly deserve.

  Dale Carnegie

  Appreciation, Selfish, Apples

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• For a bowl of water give a goodly meal; For a kindly greeting bow thou down with zeal; For a simple penny pay thou back with gold; If thy life be rescued, life do not withhold. Thus the words and actions of the wise regard; Every little service tenfold they reward. But the truly noble know all men as one, And return with gladness good for evil done.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wise, Simple, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• This very second has vanished forever, lost in the anonymous mass of the irrevocable. It will never return. I suffer from this and I do not. Everything is unique - and insignificant.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Unique, Forever, Suffering

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• Most believe that a satisfactory future requires a return to an idealized past, a past which never in fact existed.

  Frank Herbert

  Believe, Past, Facts

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.351, Penguin

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• And so, when I began to read the proffered pages, I at one moment lost the train of thought in the text and drowned it in my own feelings. In these seconds of absence and self-oblivion, centuries passed with every read but uncomprehended and unabsorbed line, and when, after a few moments, I came to and re-established contact with the text, I knew that the reader who returns from the open seas of his feelings is no longer the same reader who embarked on that sea only a short while ago.

  Milorad Pavić

  Self, Sea, Train Of Thought

  "Dictionary of the Khazars". Book by Milorad Pavić, 1984.

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• He [Mitt Romney] didn't pay taxes for 10 years! Now, do I know that that's true? Well, I'm not certain, but obviously he can't release those tax returns. How would it look?

  Harry Reid

  Years, Looks, Pay

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• The politician is trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Art, Cutting, Political

  Address at London Guildhall, October 19, 1959.

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• When Christ returns, and only then, will the angel's message to the shepherds be totally fulfilled: Peace on earth, goodwill toward men.

  David Jeremiah

  Christian, Angel, Men

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• In asking for miracles, we are seeking a practical goal: a return to inner peace. We’re not asking for something outside us to change, but for something inside us to change. We’re looking for a softer orientation to life.

  Marianne Williamson

  Goal, Miracle, Inner Peace

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• The man who foolishly does me wrong, I will return to him the protection of my most ungrudging love; and the more evil comes from him, the more good shall go from me.

  Gautama Buddha

  Love, Buddhist, Men

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