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The keeping of lists was for November an exercise kin to repeating of a rosary. She considered it neither obsessive nor compulsive, but a ritual, an essential ordering of the world into tall, thin jars containing perfect nouns. Enough nouns connected...

Palimpsest

For nearly thirty years the powerful propaganda machines of Stalinism worked furiously to expunge Trotsky's name from the annals of the revolution, or to leave it there only as the synonym for arch-traitor. To the present Soviet generation, and not o...

Isaac Deutscher

Books remember all the things you cannot contain.

The Giant's House

Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.

Arthur Erickson

The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw.

Humphry Davy

... novels contained something inexpressibly delicious.

Swann's Way

All I have ever wanted, needed, dreamed and desired is contained within you.

Unrequited

Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors.

Nikola Tesla

What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.

Theodor W. Adorno

I really wanted the MTV Award the most, It was a golden popcorn container and it looks really neat.

Kirsten Dunst

The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.

Mortimer Adler

Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.

Samuel Beckett

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.

Jane Smiley

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

Carl Jung

The law reports in newspapers contain perhaps the only real history of England that has any relation to truth.

Robert Baldwin Ross

It's just like any relationship, the more contained the environment, the more the good stuff appears and the more the bad stuff will reveal itself.

Bruce Greenwood

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

Socrates

What has always attracted me in life is poetry. Any genre can have poetry. For me, poetry contains truth.

Jean Marais

I believe the life of every person is worthy of scrutiny, containing its own secrets and dramas.

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Body can’t contain the inside hurricane. (Corps ne peut contenir - L'ouragan intérieur)

Charles de Leusse