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As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature's holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as… — Jonathan Edwards
No experience has been too unimportant, and the smallest event unfolds like a fate, and fate itself is like a wonderful, wide fabric in which… — Rainer Maria Rilke
With one long breath, caught and held in his chest, he fought his sadness over his solitary life. Don't cry, you idiot! Live or die,… — Saul Bellow
And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all. — Edgar Allan Poe
The first building she reached appeared to be an old barn. Only one young guard stood before its bolted door, staring at her with wide… — Shannon Hale
This love was a torment, and he resented bitterly the subjugation in which it held him; he was a prisoner and he longed for freedom.… — W. Somerset Maugham
From daydreams on the road there was no waking. He plodded on. He could remember everything of her save her scent. Seated in a theatre… — Cormac McCarthy
But on the way home tonight, you wish you'd picked him up, held him a bit. Just held him, very close to your heart, his… — Thomas Pynchon
...It looked very different from the Statue of Liberty, but what did that matter? What was the good of having the statue without the liberty,… — Josephine Baker
A contest was held in 1994 to rename the Los Angeles Convention and Exhibition Center after an extensive renovation and expansion. The winning name, chosen… — James Frey
No, everybody's gotta learn, nobody's born knowin'. That Walter's as smart as he can be, he just gets held back sometimes because he has to… — Harper Lee
On the evenings when my parents held parties, the drawing-room mirrors multiplied to infinity the scintillations of a crystal chandelier. Mama would take her seat… — Simone de Beauvoir
Treat a dog right and he'll treat you right. ... Cats is different, but I never held it against them. — Mary Ann Shaffer
At heart, he could not abide sense in women: he liked to see them as silly, as light-headed, as vain, as open to ridicule as… — Charlotte Bronte
I SEE thee better in the dark, I do not need a light. The love of thee a prism be Excelling violet. I see thee… — Emily Dickinson
Maybe it was a Patty Hearst thing. Stockholm syndrome or whatever it's called when you're being held against your will but then you become sucked… — Augusten Burroughs
However in the world did her skin come green?" Nanny wondered, stupidly, for Melena blanched and Frex reddened, and the baby held her breath as… — Gregory Maguire
A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to… — Jeanette Winterson
the world is not a pleasant place to be without someone to hold and be held by. — Nikki Giovanni
Her thoughts ran away to her girlhood with its passionate longing for adventure and she remembered the arms of men that had held her when… — Sherwood Anderson
In that high place in the darkness the two oddly sensitive human atoms held each other tightly and waited. In the mind of each was… — Sherwood Anderson
by then I'd figured out the gift of failure, which is that it breaks through all that held breath and isometric tension about needing to… — Anne Lamott
The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may… — Carl Sagan
The truth is, when our mothers held us, rocked us, stroked our heads -none of us ever got enough of that. We all yearn in… — Mitch Albom

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