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  • Close your bodily eye, so that you may see your picture first with the spiritual eye. Then bring to the light of day that which you have seen in the darkness so that it may react on others from the outside inwards.

    - Caspar David Friedrich
    Quoted in Caspar David Friedrich1774^1840, Tate Gallery (1972).

  • There is an inside and an outside to every form.

    - Dame Barbara Hepworth
      A Pictorial  Autobiography.

  • Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside pissing in.

    - Lyndon B(aines) also called LBJ Johnson
    Of J Edgar Hoover. Quoted in David Halberstam TheBest and the Brightest (1971), ch.20.

  • England still stands outside Europe. Europe's voiceless tremors do not reach her. Europe is apart, and England is not of her flesh and body.

    -John Maynard, 1st Baron Keynes (of Tilton)
      The Economic Consequences of the Peace.

  •    Give me the outside of all things, I am a fanatic for the externality of things.

    -Jose Lezama Lima
      Blasting and Bombardiering, ch.1.

  • I am just going outside and may be some time. See Scott 722:82.

    - Lawrence Edward Grace Oates
      Last words, Mar.

  • It is only in science, I find, that we can get outside ourselves. It's realistic, and to a great degree verifiable, and it has this tremendous stage on which it plays. I have the same feelingto a certain degreeabout some religious expressions†but only to a certain degree. For me, the proper study of mankind is science, which also means that the proper study of mankind is man.

    - Isidor Isaac Rabi
    Quoted inJeremy Bernstein Experiencing Science (1978).

  • Hab|a un solo t u nel, oscuro y solitario: el m|o, el t u nel en que hab|a transcurrido mi infancia, mi juventud, toda mi vida† Yentonces, mientras yo avanzaba siempre por mi pasadizo, ella viv|a afuera su vida normal, la vida agitada que llevan esas gentes que viven afuera. There was only one tunnel, dark and solitary: mine, the tunnel in which I had spent my childhood, my youth, my entire life† And then, while I kept moving through my passageway, she lived her normal life outside, the exciting life of people who live outside.

    - Ernesto Sa  bato
      El tu  nel, ch.36 (translated asThe Outsider,1950).

  • At times I suffer from the strangest sense of detachment from myself and the world about me; I seem to watch it all from the outside, from somewhere inconceivably remote, out of time, out of space, out of the stress and tragedy of it all.

    - H(erbert) G(eorge) Wells
      TheWar of theWorlds, bk.1, ch.7.

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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