34 Quotes About Proportion






  • Author audre lorde
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    Pulling down statues of rock from their high placeswe must level the expectationupon which they standwaiting for usto fulfill their imagewaitingfor our feet to replace them.Unless we refuse to sleepeven one night in houses of marblethe sight of our children's false pleasurewill undo usfor our children have grownin the shadow of what wasthe shape of marblebetween their eyes and the sunbut we do not wish to standlike great marble statuesbetween our children's eyesand their sun.

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  • Author E.M. Forester
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    The business man who assumes that this life is everything, and the mystic who asserts that it is nothing, fail, on this side and on that, to hit the truth. "Yes, I see, dear; it's about halfway between," Aunt Juley had hazarded in earlier years. No; truth, being alive, was not halfway between anything. It was only to be found by continuous excursions into either realm, and though proportion is the final secret, to espouse it at the outset is to ensure sterility

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