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Mister Teatime had a truly brilliant mind, but it was brilliant like a fractured mirror, all marvellous facets and rainbows but, ultimately, also something that… — Terry Pratchett
We have educated ourselves into a world from which wonder, and he fear and dread and splendor and freedom of wonder have been banished. Of… — Robertson Davies
And the marvellous rose became crimson, like the rose of the eastern sky. Crimson was the girdle of petals, and crimson as a ruby was… — Oscar Wilde
I therefore invite you all," Mr Fox went on, 'to stay here with me for ever.' For ever!' they cried. 'My goodness! How marvellous!' And… — Roald Dahl
I adore Life. What do all the fools matter and all the stupidity. They do matter but somehow for me they cannot touch the body… — Katherine Mansfield
I once read somewhere that Sean Connery left school at the age of 13 and later went on to read Proust and Finnegans Wake and… — Helen DeWitt
All unwillingly I opened my eyes - then I opened them wider, and lifted my head. The heat, my weariness, were quite forgotten. Piercing the… — Sarah Waters
[about suicide] And why is it the biggest sin of all? All your life you're told that you'll be going to this marvellous place when… — Nick Hornby
I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire. — Angela Carter
Tolkien, who created this marvellous vehicle, doesn't go anywhere in it. He just sits where he is. What I mean by that is that he… — Philip Pullman
What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it? — Jules Verne
our acquaintances—not our friends—are our greatest source of new ideas and information. the internet lets us exploit the power of these kinds of distant connections… — Malcolm Gladwell
I have a truly marvellous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain. — Steig Larsson
Bach is an astronomer, discovering the most marvellous stars. Beethoven challenges the universe. I only try to express the soul and the heart of man. — Frederic Chopin
What was it that drew you back? My marvellous personality, I suppose? Or my sparkling conversation? — Jonathan Stroud
There are few persons, even among the calmest thinkers, who have not occasionally been startled into a vague yet thrilling half credence in the supernatural,… — Edgar Allan Poe
I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest. — Anton Chekhov
Everything in life is unusual until you get accustomed to it -The Scarecrow - The Marvellous Land Of Oz by L. Frank Baum pg 103… — L. Frank Baum
...we need to fall, and we need to be aware of it; for if we did not fall, we should not know how weak and… — Julian of Norwich
Science for me is very close to art. Scientific discovery is an irrational act. It's an intuition which turns out to be reality at the… — Unknown Author
Evolutionary biology is genuinely scientific, but more than that it opens the door to a world more marvellous than any Christian fundamentalist has ever read… — Ambrose Bierce
If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything. When a child presents himself to you with his smile, if… — Nhat Hanh
You put on eyeliner, and people start screaming at you. How strange, and how marvellous. — Robert Smith
We are evolutionary descendents of this marvellous panoply of life. And what that says unequivocally is we have an utter total obligation to make sure… — Leroy Hood
It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches - legislative, executive and judicial - and of the governmental functions possessed by each… — J. Reuben Clark

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