#awaken

One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most. ↗

— Walter Pater

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If a Labour movement, on a bourgeois basis, has hitherto existed in the country where the new movement is awakening it will certainly not disappear all at once. ↗

— Karl Radek

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What we hear while we are asleep continues to resonate with us upon awakening. ↗

— Henry Reed

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When we awaken, we cannot account for the time spent. We simply don't remember. About the only evidence we have of experiences while we were asleep is when we happen to remember a dream. ↗

— Henry Reed

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When we fall asleep, we withdraw our awareness from its hypnotic fascination with physical sensation, thereby enabling us to listen with our now awakening sixth sense. ↗

— Henry Reed

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Up until the time I was 14 years old, I was sure that I was going to be a big-league baseball player. But that dream came to a rude awakening when I got cut from my high school baseball team. ↗

— Phil Knight

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If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing. ↗

— Gail Sheehy

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Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they are fitted. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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But now it was spring again, and spring was almost unbearable for sensitive hearts. It drove creation to its utmost limits, it wafted its spice-laden breath even into the nostrils of the innocent. ↗

— Knut Hamsun

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The experience awakened 'my tremendous musical ambition, which has never subsided to this day. ↗

— Georg Solti

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