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I dreamt four nights ago of clock hands descending from the universe like rain, of the moon as a green eye, of mirrors and insects,… — Jonathan Safran Foer
However, as words become particularized, and as men begin - in however small a way - to use them in personal, arbitrary ways, so their… — Yukio Mishima
Oh God, Mae," said Jamie in a hollow voice, descending the stairs. "I will never drink again. I'm only seeing in black and white. My… — Sarah Rees Brennan
It must be that I am dreaming, and that I shall awaken in a moment to see that awful knife descending toward my heart- kiss… — Edgar Rice Burroughs
I had it together on Sunday. By Monday at noon it had cracked. On Tuesday debris Was descending on me. And by Wednesday no part… — Judith Viorst
Yet the story of Orpheus, it occurs to me, is not just about the desire of the living to resuscitate the dead but about the… — Meghan O'Rourke
Elizabeth’s entire body started to tremble as his lips began descending to hers. and she sought to forestall what her heart knew was inevitable by… — Judith McNaught
The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me And I cannot, cannot go. The giant… — Emily Bronte
grows like a seed in the dark out of the leaf-mould of the mind: out of all that has been seen or thought or read,… — J.R.R. Tolkien
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The bristling eyebrows shot up in mock surprise. Mesmerized, the boy watched them disappear under the hanging thatch of white hair. There, almost coyly, they… — Jonathan Stroud
There are those who do not hold that there is any innate goodness to mankind. To them I say, had you lived my life, you… — Jacqueline Carey
And if you would know God, be not therefore a solver of riddles. Rather look about you and you shall see Him playing with your… — Khalil Gibran
Violence never really deals with the basic evil of the situation. Violence may murder the murderer, but it doesn’t murder murder. Violence may murder the… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
For my own part I would as soon be descended from that heroic little monkey, who braved his dreaded enemy in order to save the… — Charles Darwin
To trace the history of a river or a raindrop is also to trace the history of the soul, the history of the mind descending… — Gretel Ehrlich
I want to ski down Mount Cho Oyu in the Himalayas when I am 85, descending from a height of 8,201 meters. — Yuichiro Miura
The sight of parents, children and grandparents all descending on a tented field to enjoy the pleasure of ideas and books renews my faith in… — Mariella Frostrup
2013 was a year of myths falling apart. The myth of President Obama - a myth in which Obama was a messianic figure descending to… — Ben Shapiro
They saw a Dream of Loveliness descending from the train. — Charles Godfrey Leland
I explained I wanted to descend as quickly as possible to camp IV in order to warm myself and gather a supply of hot drink… — Anatoli Boukreev
I said to Scott that the ascent seemed to be going slowly and that I was concerned descending climbers could possibly run out of oxygen… — Anatoli Boukreev
After clearing 9 metres of the descending passage, in about the middle of the afternoon, we came upon a second sealed doorway, which was almost… — Howard Carter
Obviously this is the world descending into worse and worse standards of targeting civilians both in state violence in Iraq, Gaza and so on and… — Clare Short
Owing to the difficulty of obtaining horses, Mr. Henry returns from this place. In descending the Mississippi I will request him to pay his respects… — Zebulon Pike

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