Exquisite Quotes
360 quotes by 251 authors
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So in writing, there is always a right word, and every other than that is wrong. There is no beauty in words except in their…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The spectacle of Nature is always new, for she is always renewing the spectators. Life is her most exquisite invention; and death is her expert…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I held a blue flower in my hand, probably a wild aster, wondering what its name was, and then thought that human names for natural…
— Sally Carrighar
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We may remark in passing that to be blind and beloved may, in this world where nothing is perfect, be among the most strangely exquisite…
— Victor Hugo
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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter…
— Adrienne Rich
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Until now I have never really lived! Life on earth is a creeping, crawling business. It is in the air that one feels the glory…
— Gabriele d'Annunzio
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I consider the differences between man and animals in propensities, feelings, and intellectual faculties, to be the result of the same cause as that which…
— Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet
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Eva Stachniak has given readers a thrilling glimpse into the scandals and secrets at the heart of the Russian Imperial court. With deft prose and…
— Deanna Raybourn
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Steve Martin is such an exquisite and precise writer. Everything is so clear; it's like a bell. He says what he means and says it…
— Jason Schwartzman
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It's an honour to have such a wonderful international cast on board for this world famous murder mystery. Writer Stewart Harcourt has created an exquisite…
— David Suchet
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The cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths / of exquisite interrelationships / of the awesome machinery of nature
— Carl Sagan
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What is saving my life now is the conviction that there is no spiritual treasure to be found apart from the bodily experiences of human…
— Barbara Brown Taylor
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The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself; that is impatient of…
— William Hazlitt
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A pleasure so exquisite as almost to amount to pain.
— Leigh Hunt
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The skies and land are so enormous, and the detail so precise and exquisite that wherever you are you are isolated in a glowing world…
— Ansel Adams
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The finest music in the room is that which streams out to the ear of the spirit in many an exquisite strain from the little…
— James Lane Allen
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Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge…
— Bernard Malamud
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It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas.
— George Santayana
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My first American ancestor, gentlemen, was an Indian-an early Indian. Your ancestors skinned him alive, and I am an orphan. All those Salem witches were…
— Mark Twain
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To eat figs off the tree in the very early morning, when they have been barely touched by the sun, is one of the exquisite…
— Elizabeth David
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