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The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary. – Italo Calvino	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face. – Sydney J. Harris	added by anonymous 10 years ago
With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves. – Eric Hoffer	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us. – Peter De Vries	added by anonymous 10 years ago
In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by step, decade by decade, I was forced to acknowledge that even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity. – Camille Paglia	added by anonymous 10 years ago
A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes. – Clare Boothe Luce	added by anonymous 10 years ago
I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty. – William Ralph Inge	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape into an intensification of the conditions of ordinary life, into a deliberate aggravation of those conditions: further from nature, nearer to artifice, to abstraction, to total pollution, to well above average levels of stress, pressure, concentration and monotony -- this is the ideal of popular entertainment. No one is interested in overcoming alienation; the point is to plunge into it to the point of ecstasy. That is what holidays are for. – Jean Baudrillard	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody. – Albert Camus	added by anonymous 10 years ago
It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say. – Jawaharlal Nehru	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape. – Antonin Artaud	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey. – Matthew Prior	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he picture us caught in a tremendous man-made or God-made trap from which there is no escape, but we must also listen to him day in, day out, describe how the trap is inexorably closing. To such prophecies the human race, as presently bred and educated and situated, is incapable of listening. So some dance and some immolate themselves as human torches; some take drugs and some artists spill their creativity in sets of randomly placed dots on a white ground. – Margaret Mead	added by anonymous 10 years ago
They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses of eternity; and thrill; in waking; to find they have been upon the verge of the great secret. – Edgar Allan Poe	added by anonymous 10 years ago
No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from. – George Eliot	added by anonymous 10 years ago
A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked – Anaïs Nin	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion… – T. S. Eliot	added by anonymous 10 years ago
In such moments I can't escape the truth that I'm not coping as well as I pretend to be. – Dean Koontz	added by anonymous 11 years ago
When love, joy and hope are present hopeless escape. – Foodi S. M.	added by anonymous 11 years ago
Ideas are etheric like dreams. Use them NOW they will escape from your Reality. – Gordana Biernat	added by anonymous 11 years ago
A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape. – Dejan Stojanovic	added by anonymous 11 years ago
Our time is like our money; when we change a guinea the shillings escape as things of small account; when we break a day by idleness in the morning, the rest of the hours lose their importance in our eyes. – Sir Walter Scott	added by anonymous 12 years ago
The guilty man may escape, but he cannot be sure of doing so. – Epicurus	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those we have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these things. – Emily Dickinson	added by anonymous 13 years ago

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