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“In learning a language, when from mere words we reach the laws of words, we have gained a great deal. But if… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
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“ You act as if I were your enemy. “You are my enemy. You seek to end the things I love.” And… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“I was set free! I dissolved in the sea, became white sails and flying spray, became beauty and rhythm, became moonlight and… — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
“Most of this is my contribution to Havenhurst,” she told him proudly. The sight that Ian beheld when he looked up made… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
“I wanted to find something of the beauty of myth that we’ve left behind, carry its shreds before us all, so we… — Signe Pike Copy Share Image
“Again, the law of balance does not allow anyone to take the lion's share of nature's gifts. Beauty in face is accompanied… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“He’d never encountered beauty of such magnitude and intensity. It was not allure, but grace, like the sight of land to a… — Sherry Thomas Copy Share Image
“Wine and women make wise men dote and forsake God's law and do wrong." However, the fault is not in the wine,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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“Widen your vision of what beauty is. Realize and keep close the fact that a beauty standard has been created by the… — Lindsey Gates Markel Copy Share Image
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“Claudette Colbert was not Hollywood’s greatest beauty, but her trim little figure, round, kitten-like face, and obviously intelligent good humor made her… — Eve Golden Copy Share Image
“Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful. And though you seek in garments the freedom of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It’s like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“I feel sorry for beautiful people. Beauty, from the moment you possess it, is already slipping away, ephemeral. That must be difficult.… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
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“Your eyes, Their glamorous radiance, Their eternal, heavenly warmth, Their delicate and intricate beauty, The desire to see that twinkle, That gorgeous… — L.S Copy Share Image
“Most days I live awed by the world we have still, rather than mourning the worlds we have lost. The bandit mask… — Paul Bogard Copy Share Image
“At thirteen, she was already five feet seven, a little hollowed-out by her growth spurt, her chest concave, her eyes with their… — Diana Abu-Jaber Copy Share Image
“Gdmng, Sunshine! This morning, I offer a gentle reminder: even when everything sucks, pretend you’re a wildflower & push through anyway. Isn’t… — Rajesh Goyal, राजेश गोयल Copy Share Image
“ Giving Birth by Marcus Amaker do you remember when the earth was just a baby, settling in its skin, safe in… — Marcus Amaker Copy Share Image
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“It was under English trees that I meditated on that lost labyrinth: I pictured it perfect and inviolate on the secret summit… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“She was beautiful, only hers was the dark beauty of night, just as Sherry's was the bright beauty of daytime. Her hair… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
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“I sit in meditation…and soon all sounds, and all one sees and feels, take on imminence, an immanence, as if the Universe… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
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