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How many people came and stayed a certain time, Uttered light or dark speech that became part of you Like light behind windblown fog and… — John Ashbery
The more necessary anything appears to my mind, the most certain it is that I only assert a limitation. — Aleister Crowley
Whatever you do," Seth said around a chewy mouthful, "try not to leave me down here too long. You can only play a certain amount… — Brandon Mull
We are symbolic. We are driving to the edge of the city and talking in vague-yet-resolute certainties about our dreams and our futures. We are… — Pete Wentz
If we must put our head into the lionâ€™s mouth, let us make certain that he chokes upon our flesh! — Brandon Sanderson
Colinialism hardly ever exploits the whole of a country. It contents itself with bringing to light the natrual resources, which it extracts, and exports to… — Frantz Fanon
As soon as a friendship passed a certain point - some obscure and secret boundary - a woman quite automatically became overwhelmed by a raging… — David Eddings
Adam wasn't certain what came first with Blue--her treating the boys as friends, or them all becoming friends. It seemed to Adam that this circular… — Maggie Stiefvater
Then at certain moments I remember one of his words and I suddenly feel the sensual woman flaring up, as if violently caressed. I say… — Anais Nin
For a second, I feel a sense of overwhelming grief: for how things change, for the fact that we can never go back. I'm not… — Lauren Oliver
Autumnal -- nothing to do with leaves. It is to do with a certain brownness at the edges of the day ... Brown is creeping… — Tom Stoppard
And if I'm alone in bed, I will go to the window, look up at the sky, and feel certain that loneliness is a lie,… — Paulo Coelho
There are certain half-dreaming moods of mind in which we naturally steal away from noise and glare, and seek some quiet haunt where we may… — Washington Irving
There was a certain history to this. While heavily pregnant with Amelia, she had asked him if she was radiant or if she just looked… — Julia Quinn
In our hearts... there must abide some pity for those people who have always felt themselves to be separate from even their most familiar surroundings,… — John Irving
Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to… — Ramana Maharshi
You gonna put on your big-girl panties and fight with the boys, now?â€ He looked over his shoulder as if he expected me to blush… — Faith Hunter
Any leader has to have a certain amount of steel in them, so I am not that put out being called the Iron Lady. — Margaret Thatcher
Beyond the element of giving, the active characteristic of love becomes evident in the fact that it always implies certain basic elements, common to all… — Erich Fromm
We won't be having an affair." I stare dumbly, certain I just heard an organ in my body crack in my chest. His hands clamp… — Katy Evans

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