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So often loneliness comes from...

So often loneliness comes from being out of touch with parts of oneself. We go searching for those parts in other people, but there's a difference between feeling separate from others and separate from oneself.

Diane Ackerman 235 quotes

Writer's block is a luxury mos...

Writer's block is a luxury most people with deadlines don't have.

Diane Ackerman 235 quotes

Complexity excites the mind, a...

Complexity excites the mind, and order rewards it. In the garden, one finds both, including vanishingly small orders too complex to spot, and orders so vast the mind struggles to embrace them.

Diane Ackerman 235 quotes

Which is crueler, an old man's...

Which is crueler, an old man's lost memories of a life lived, or a young man's lost memories of the life he meant to live?

Diane Ackerman 235 quotes

Couples are jigsaw puzzles tha...

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points.

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The heart is a museum, filled ...

The heart is a museum, filled with the exhibits of a lifetime's loves.

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I'm fascinated how often and w...

I'm fascinated how often and with what whole-heartedness people will risk their lives to perform acts of courage, sacrifice, and compassion for total strangers.

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We humans are obsessed with li...

We humans are obsessed with lights...Perhaps it is our way of hurling the constellations back at the sky.

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Much of life becomes backgroun...

Much of life becomes background, but it is the province of art to throw buckets of light into the shadows and make life new again.

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We ogle plants and animals up ...

We ogle plants and animals up close on television, the Internet and in the movies. We may not worship the animals we see, but we still regard them as necessary physical and spiritual companions. Technological nature can't completely satisfy that yearning.

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Though most of us don't hunt, ...

Though most of us don't hunt, our eyes are still the great monopolists of our senses. To taste or touch your enemy or your food, you have to be unnervingly close to it. To smell or hear it, you can risk being further off. But vision can rush through the fields and up the mountains, travel across time, country, and parsecs of outer space, and collect bushel baskets of information as it goes. Animals that hear high frequencies better than we do

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Mystery causes a mental itch, ...

Mystery causes a mental itch, which the brain tries to soothe with the balm of reasonable talk.

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Love, like truth, is the unass...

Love, like truth, is the unassailable defense.

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What an odd, ruminating, noisy...

What an odd, ruminating, noisy, self-interrupting conversation we conduct with ourselves from birth to death.

Diane Ackerman 235 quotes

Ecstasy is what everyone crave...

Ecstasy is what everyone craves - not love or sex, but a hot-blooded, soaring intensity, in which being alive is a joy and a thrill. That enravishment doesn't give meaning to life, and yet without it life seems meaningless.

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One can live at a low flame. M...

One can live at a low flame. Most people do. For some, life is an exercise in moderation (best china saved for special occasions), but given something like death, what does it matter if one looks foolish now and then, or tries too hard, or cares too
deeply?

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Words are small shapes in the ...

Words are small shapes in the gorgeous chaos of the world. ... they bring the world into focus, they corral ideas, they hone thoughts, they paint watercolors of perception.

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When I go biking, I am mentall...

When I go biking, I am mentally far far away from civilization. The world is breaking someone else's heart.

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Above all, we ask the poet to ...

Above all, we ask the poet to teach us a way of seeing...

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I am a great fan of the univer...

I am a great fan of the universe, which I take literally: as one. All of it interests me, and it interests me in detail.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

Что стало с детьми-звездами: Рэдклифф и компания спустя годы

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

Кира Найтли, Деми Мур и другие

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....