Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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The minds of stone lovers had colonised stones as lichens clung to them with golden or grey-green florid stains. The human world of stones is caught in organic metaphors like flies in amber. Words came from flesh and hair and plants. Reniform, mammilated, botryoidal, dendrite, haematite. Carnelian is from carnal, from flesh. Serpentine and lizardite are stone reptiles ; phyllite is leafy-green.

A. S. Byatt's Popular Quotes

Harm can come about without will or action. But will and action can avert harm.

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I like feeling my way into different minds and experiences. It comes naturally and always has.

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I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self the more you do.

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I don't like gurus. I don't like people who ask you to follow or believe. I like people who ask you to think independently.

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What I need to write well is a combination of heat, light and solitude.

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I'm more interested in books than people, and I always expect everybody else to be, but they're not.

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Independent women must expect more of themselves, since neither men nor other more conventionally domesticated women will hope for anything, or expec…

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Everything is surprising, rightly seen.

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Young girls are sad. They like to be; it makes them feel strong.

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