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I’m afraid I’ll be a book that no one reads. Music that no one listens to anymore. I’m afraid I’ll be abandoned like a movie playing in an empty theater.
Tablo
I'm apprehensive I'll be a tome that no one peruses. Melody that nobody heeds any longer. I'm terrified I'll be forsaken like a picture playing in an uninhabited theater.
2.
It’s hard to feel attracted to someone who has abandoned her sense of autonomy.
Esther Perel
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The chief purpose of government is to protect life. Abandon that and you have abandoned all.
Thomas Jefferson
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I have long since abandoned the notion that higher education is essential to either success or happiness. Hothouses of learning do not always grow anything edible.
Robert Moses
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Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God
John Eldredge
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I always had the fear of being separated and abandoned. The sewing is my attempt to keep things together and make things whole.
Louise Bourgeois
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The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted.
Peter McWilliams
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Jnana teaches that the world should be given up, but not on that account to be abandoned. To be in the world but not of it-is the true test of the sannyasin.
Swami Vivekananda
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At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned.
Georges Danton
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WIth both trepidation and relief, I abandoned pragmatism in favor of magnetism.
Tama J. Kieves
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The need to be loved and protected is at a peak when we feel abandoned and are particularly vulnerable to difficult circumstances.
Uta Hagen
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To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings.
David Whyte
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I really wanted to emphasize the idea of the women being isolated and abandoned . . . and they weren't raised to take care of themselves, so they had to learn to survive.
Sofia Coppola
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I closed my eyes and abandoned myself to my grief. It felt better, somehow, to be helpless. I didn't feel ashamed.
S.J. Watson
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I have abandoned my search for truth and am now looking for a good fantasy
Ashleigh Brilliant
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Ground which can be abandoned but is hard to re-occupy is called entangling.
Sun Tzu
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A book is never finished; it's abandoned.
Gene Fowler
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I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned.
Jamaica Kincaid
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A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned.
E. M. Forster
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Mans true taproots are nourished in the sequence of generations, and he loses his taproots in disrupted developmental time, not in abandoned localities.
Erik Erikson
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But perhaps the truth newly discovered is itself only temporary and when new discoveries are made these truths too will be abandoned. But one truth remains for ever, and that is the search for truth.
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
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There are ways of being abandoned even when your parents are right there.
Louise Erdrich
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If I die, I die friendless and abandoned. What choice did that leave him, but to live?
George R. R. Martin
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Novels, since the birth of the genre, have been full of rejected, seduced, and abandoned maidens, whose proper fate is to die.
Margaret Drabble
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Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.
Oscar Wilde
30.
I am not brutal or cruel to animals. My mission has always been to save dogs - especially troubled and abandoned dogs. I've dedicated my life to this.
Cesar Millan
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Movies aren't finished, they're abandoned. And you have to make your peace with that.
David Fincher
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Love can be put off, never abandoned.
Propertius
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Men are perfectly willing to abandon a woman but they refuse to be abandoned by her.
Honore de Balzac
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A humankind abandoned in its earlier formative stage becomes its own greatest threat to survival.
Maria Montessori
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The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me.
Ida Tarbell
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Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned.
William Bartram
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Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality.
Ben Nicholson
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The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty.
Thomas B. Griffith
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No one has ever abandoned a belief because he was forced to do so.
Hillary Clinton
40.
It was during my time at secondary school that I abandoned religion.
Paul Nurse
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Finally, mutually, and completely, they released all doubts, abandoned all fears, unwilling and unable to deny this overpowering love.
R. Lee Ermey
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When Mother died I was both freed and abandoned, as are we all at this profound juncture in our lives.
Rita Mae Brown
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God loves me and sent his son to die for me so I have to live to please him because he saved me when everyone abandoned me.
Mary J. Blige
44.
The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes.
George Bernard Shaw
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A highly learned man has two sources of happiness: either he abandons all earthly interests, or else he possesses much which could be abandoned.
Akkineni Nagarjuna
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If we are abandoned to Jesus we have no ends of our own to serve.
Oswald Chambers
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Altman was told they wouldn't do the film with me. He could easily have abandoned me, but he stood by me and really bailed me out.
Tim Robbins
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Poems are never finished - just abandoned
Paul Valery
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The Democratic Party has pretty much abandoned all the things that they cherish.
Dick Armey
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There is no single grand strategy. Just as the New Left abandoned an overarching program and became a series of like-minded groups advancing area by area, so it must counterattacked area by area.
Robert Bork