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He was bored now when Emma suddenly began to sob on his breast; and his heart, like the people who can only stand a certain… — Gustave Flaubert
....there is an ending [to Infinite Jest] as far as I'm concerned. Certain kind of parallel lines are supposed to start converging in such a… — David Foster Wallace
This rough magic I here abjure and when I have required some heavenly music, which even now I do, to work mine end upon their… — William Shakespeare
Atheism and agnosticism signify the rejection of certain images and concepts of God or of truth, which are historically conditioned and therefore inadequate. Atheism is… — Bede Griffiths
We spend our whole lives worrying about the future, planning for the future, trying to predict the future, as if figuring it out will cushion… — Shonda Rhimes
Under certain circumstances the fateful decisions in life, sometimes even in matters of life and death, are made with an almost indifferent ease. While the… — Peter HÃ¸eg
There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit… — Robert A. Heinlein
There are certain things we must not pray about - moods, for instance. Moods never go by praying, moods go by kicking. — Oswald Chambers
How ironic, she thought, as she fell to her certain death, that at that moment she would have given anything to be a giant goose… — Michael Buckley
Sure as the most certain sure, plumb in the uprights, well entretied, braced in the beams, Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical, I and… — Walt Whitman
(An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation, and the attendance… — Rudyard Kipling
If love makes you sad, you acquire a little depth, a little compassion. If it makes you happy, you learn how to be joyous. Every… — Sharon Shinn
The psychological and physiological mechanism of love is so complex that at a certain period in his life a young man must concentrate all his… — Milan Kundera
It is enough for me to hear someone talk sincerely about ideals, about the future, about philosophy, to hear him say “we" with a certain… — Emile M. Cioran
Americans have a taste for…rocking-chairs. A flippant critic might suggest that they select rocking-chairs so that, even when they are sitting down, they need not… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Some people come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede -- not because they… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Your stockings prove your virtues. Be certain they are clean and free of tears. — Emilie Autumn
The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of… — Aberjhani
Certain things in life simply have to be experienced -and never explained. Love is such a thing. — Paulo Coelho
There was a certain power beautiful mothers held over their less beautiful daughters. — Sarah Addison Allen
Nearly every morning, a certain woman in our community comes running out of her house with her face white and her overcoat flapping wildly. She… — Lydia Davis
In this world, there must be a certain degree of honor just as there must be a certain amount of light. When there are many… — Jose Marti
Nobody believes in magicians any more, nobody believes that anyone can come along and wave a wand and turn you into a frog. But if… — Agatha Christie
When someone refuses to tell me a certain piece of information, it only makes me that much more determined to find out the truth. I… — Christopher Paolini
I had become too accustomed to the pseudo-Left new style, whereby if your opponent thought he had identified your lowest possible motive, he was quite… — Christopher Hitchens

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