#ola

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#before #beside #connection #else #everything

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#art #greatest #isolate #limit #oneself

The entire North Polar ice cap is disappearing before our very eyes. It's been the size of the continental United States for the last 3 million years and now 40 percent is gone and the rest of it is going. ↗

— Al Gore

#before #cap #continental #disappearing #entire

Isolation is a self-defeating dream. ↗

— Carlos Salinas de Gortari

#isolation #self-defeating

My existence was never a Francis Ford Coppola existence. ↗

— Victoria Gotti

#existence #ford #francis #never

And with each day that passed, the gulf broadened and my isolation became more accentuated. In such a situation, the discovery that my experience was not unique, that it had also been that of other Spanish intellectuals, became very important for me. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

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Selling drug secrets violates a trust that is fundamental to the integrity of both scientific research and our financial markets. ↗

— Charles Grassley

#financial #financial markets #fundamental #integrity #markets

President Obama's decision to bypass the constitutional advice and consent of the Senate is not an isolated incident. ↗

— Chuck Grassley

#bypass #consent #constitutional #decision #incident

I think instead writers and publishers and readers need to go to the places where people are, and make the argument that there is great value to the quiet, contemplative process of reading a novel, that reading great books carefully offers pleasures and consolations that no iPad app ever can. ↗

— John Green

#books #carefully #consolations #contemplative #ever