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  • Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

    Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.27, Heron Dance Press
  • It is said, in Imardin, that the wind has a soul, and that it wails through the narrow streets because it is grieved by what it finds there.

    Wind   Soul   Said  
    Trudi Canavan (2009). “The Magicians' Guild: The Black Magician Trilogy”, p.3, Harper Collins
  • An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

    Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (2017). “The Measure of a Man”, p.18, Pickle Partners Publishing
  • 'What was being on the moon literally like?' [. . .] 'Being on the moon?' His tired gaze inspected the narrow street of cheap jewellery stores, with its office messengers and lottery touts, the off-duty taxi-drivers leaning against their cars. 'It was just like being here.'

    Tired   Moon   Car  
  • In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.

    Cities   House   Athens  
    Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The House: Its Origins and Evolution”, Ivan R Dee
  • Silence emerges from the sound of rain and spreads in a crescendo of gray monotony over the narrow street I contemplate. I’m sleeping while awake, standing by the window, leaning against it as against everything. I search in myself for the sensations I feel before these falling threads of darkly luminous water that stand out from the grimy building facades and especially from the open windows. And I don’t know what I feel or what I want to feel. I don’t know what to think or where I am.

    Rain   Fall   Sleep  
    Fernando Pessoa (2002). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.63, Penguin UK
  • Walk in the narrow streets after midnight under moonlight! Tranquillity is like a sugar for the mind; you think better in the silence of empty spaces!

  • Madrid is enjoyed most from the ground, exploring your way through its narrow streets that always lead to some intriguing park, market, tapas bar or street performer. Each night we'd leave our hotel to begin a new adventure in Madrid and nine out of 10 times, we'd walk through the Plaza Mayor.

  • It's the reductionist approach to life: if you keep it small, you'll keep it under control. If you don't make any noise, the bogeyman won't find you. But it's all an illusion, because they die too, those people who roll up their spirits into tiny little balls so as to be safe. Safe?! From what? Life is always on the edge of death; narrow streets lead to the same place as wide avenues, and a little candle burns itself out just like a flaming torch does. I choose my own way to burn.

    People   Torches   Doe  
    As quoted in "O2 : Breathing New Life Into Faith" by Richard Dahlstrom, Ch. 4 : Artisans of Hope: Stepping into God's Kingdom Story, (p. 63), 2008.
  • They looked at one another in incomprehension, two minds driving opposite ways up a narrow street and waiting for the other man to reverse first.

    Men   Opposites   Two  
    Terry Pratchett (2009). “Soul Music: (Discworld Novel 16)”, p.208, Random House
  • The modern city consists of...dark, narrow streets full of gasoline fumes, coal dust, and toxic gasses, torn by the noise.

    Dark   Dust   Cities  
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