Selden and Lily stood still, accepting the unreality of the scene as a part of their own dream-like sensations. It would not… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
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There he got out the luncheon-basket and packed a simple meal, in which, remembering the stranger's origin and preferences, he took care… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
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There are houses in certain provincial towns whose aspect inspires melancholy, akin to that called forth by sombre cloisters, dreary moorlands, or… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
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There are videos where I would go approaching strangers and sing the songs from 'The Lion King. I would have been about… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
Haunted Gulp down your wine, old friends of mine, Roar through the darkness, stamp and sing And lay ghost hands on everything,… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
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For them (the peoples of the Soviet Union) We cherish the warmest paternal affection. We are well aware that not a few… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
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Howard Altmann has found a way to make language transform itself. If the elusive moment between I and Thou could speak, it… — Dennis Nurkse Copy Share Image
“He, the stranger, was speaking to her brother Jesse. The sun was at his back and it shone around him like a… — Pamela Morsi Copy Share Image
Do you not know that God entrusted you with that money (all above what buys necessities for your families) to feed the… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
I wouldn't place much stock in numbers. I don't believe that they reflect Putin's true popularity. Just think about how the pollsters… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
And why do we reduce the beauty of relating to relationship? Why are we in such a hurry? - because to relate… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
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Hospitality means primarily the creation of free space where the stranger can enter and become a friend instead of an enemy. Hospitality… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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She had said she didn’t feel fear, but it was a lie; this was her fear: being left alone. Because of one… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“If one morning in the Spring, a stranger came and said to me, Your mother, father, brother, sister, uncle, lover, friend, is… — Lê Thi Diem Thúy Copy Share Image
What is a child, but a piece of the parent enrapt up in another skin? And yet our dearest children are but… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
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The fact that men have a same origin and live in the same universe means that they are representatives of a same… — African Spir Copy Share Image
When we die, these are the stories still on our lips. The stories we’ll only tell strangers, someplace private in the padded… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“For you, Elisabeth.” He offered me the flute again. This time I took it. Despite the cold air, the instrument was warm,… — S. Jae-Jones Copy Share Image
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In my own life, as winters turn into spring, I find it not only hard to cope with mud but also hard… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
It's Will Ferrell, he does Will Ferrell movies. But if you really look at it, he tries to do something different with… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
Every family had its own peculiar cult, to which no stranger was ever admitted, and which alone could appease and satisfy the… — Helen Bosanquet Copy Share Image
I don't hold on to fear as much as I used to, because I've learned a lot about genuinely not caring what… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
Holocausts do not amaze me. Rapes and child slavery do not amaze me. And Franklin, I know you feel otherwise, but Kevin… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
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