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«They may be America's last pioneers, urban nomads in search of wide open interior spaces.»
«New York is a granite beehive, where people jostle and whir like molecules in an overheated jar. Houston is six suburbs in search of a center.»
«Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.»
«One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge»
Author: Robert Lynd (Essayist, Journalist) | About: Joy | Keywords: flight, In Search Of
«Music is love in search of a word.»
Author: Sidonie Gabrielle | About: Music | Keywords: In Search Of, music, search, word
«Man - a being in search of meaning.»
Author: Plato (Philosopher) | Keywords: In Search Of, meaning, search
«There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we are in search of distance. But distance is not to be found. It melts away. And escape has never led anywhere. The moment a man finds that he must play the races, go the Arctic, or make war in order to feel himself alive, that man has begin to spin the strands that bind him to other men and to the world. But what wretched strands! A civilization that is really strong fills man to the brim, though he never stir. What are we worth when motionless, is the question.»
«Los Angeles is 72 suburbs in search of a city»
«The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.»
«No human ear shall ever hear me speak;No human dwelling ever give me food,Or sleep, or rest: but, over waste and wild,In search of nothing, that this earth can give,But expiation, will I wander on --A Man by pain and thought compelled to live,Yet loathing life -- till anger is appeasedIn Heaven, and Mercy gives me leave to die.»

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