…or like an old friend one has known too well and doesn’t want to see.
– Doris Lessing
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- That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you’ve understood all your life, but in a new way. – Doris Lessing
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- Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty. – Doris Lessing
- The boulder is the truth that the great men know by instinct, and the mountain is the stupidity of mankind. – Doris Lessing
- If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of suble air. – Doris Lessing
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- I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend’s prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief – Euripides
- … it’s not just for a friend. I mean, Reign is a friend, but… I like him. A lot. And I’d like it if he was more than just a friend. – Parker Elliot
- Let each man say what he deems truth, and let truth itself be commended unto God. – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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- Every tree is known by its fruits. So a man is known his deeds. – Lailah Gifty Akita
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- Fame is an island, and right before the castaway, the getaway of being known without being known. – Criss Jami
- He’d never known he had so much fight in him. Never known he could be capable of so much… He was going to change the world. – Ethel Rohan
- Trust what is not known to your Mind. Trust what is known to your Heart. – Tony Samara
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- I should have known he’d be trouble as soon as he walked into my workshop, but I couldn’t have known he’d be the death of me. – Pippa DaCosta
- He should have known. She was the only wanna be immortal he’d ever known. – Beth Bares
- If you become full-blown consciousness, everything that can be known will be known to you. – Sadghuru
- Being well known for being well-known did not necessarily imply intelligence. – David Halberstam
- Back then: to be regarded as well-known, one had to be great. Today: to be regarded as great, one has to be well-known. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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- Leaders do what ought to be done whether their deeds are known by thousands or known by no one. – Orrin Woodward
- Some of us make it out. But the game is played with loaded dice. I wish I had known more, and I wished I had known it sooner. – TaNehisi Coates
- Some secrets are meant to be known- but once known you can never forget them. – Pseudonymous Bosch
- Death is known only through dying and truth is known only through diving deep within oneself. – Maitreya Rudrabhayananda
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- Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service. – Doris Kearns Goodwin
- This is what happens when an outlaw kidnaps a scholar of myths and legends. – Doris Egan
- She feared that she would become a slave to superficial, symbolic duties. – Doris Kearns Goodwin
- In the reflected gaze of his (her husband’s) steady admiration, she saw the face of the girl he had fallen in love with. – Doris Kearns Goodwin
- Let us choose life and love, and happily use our selves up in loving service to one another. – Doris Haddock
- Nihilism, cynicism, sarcasm, and ??????. – Doris Block
- The Yale graduate who had refused to read outside the course curriculum (the future Pres. Taft) suddenly found himself inspired. – Doris Kearns Goodwin