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Thomas Wolfe Quotes: Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.
         

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.


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You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.



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The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.



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All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.



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Man is born to live, to suffer, and to die, and what befalls him is a tragic lot. There is no denying this in the final end. But we must deny it all along the way.



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Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.



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I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.



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The mountains were his masters. They rimmed in life. They were the cup of reality, beyond growth, beyond struggle and death. They were his absolute unity in the midst of eternal change.



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Making the world safe for hypocrisy.



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It seems to me that in the orbit of our world you are the North Pole, I the South--so much in balance, in agreement--and yet... the whole world lies between.





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