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David Hume To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive.
Henry James To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman To escape utterly from others' anchors and holds!
To drive free! to love free! to dash reckless and dangerous!
To court destruction with taunts, with invitations!
To ascend, to leap to the heavens of the love indicated to me!
Tillie Olsen And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?
Ben Okri The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.
Life To know, to esteem, to love,—and then to part,
Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart.
Storm Jameson Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Criminal Minds Prentiss: "The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering." - Ben Okri

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