“ I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone. ”
- Nikolai Gogol- Copy
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“ Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness. ”
- William James- Copy
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“ There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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“ Few people realise the immensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material universe swims. ”
- H. G. Wells- Copy
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“ I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for. ”
- Norman Mailer- Copy
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“ This land is a little land; too much shut up within the narrow seas, as it seems, to have much space for swelling into hugeness. ”
- William Morris- Copy
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“ Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity. ”
- Honore de Balzac- Copy
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“ To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But it is from the far more difficult achievement of seeing ourselves amongst others, as a local example of the forms human life has locally taken, a case among cases, a world among worlds, that the largeness of mind, without which objectivity is self-congratulation and tolerance a sham, comes. ”
- Clifford Geertz- Copy
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