Rare Quotes

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We knew so little about eachother. We lay mostly submerged, like ice floes with our visible social selves projecting only cool and white. Here was… — Ian Mcewan
He came to a decision and looked at Dagon before climbing into the car. "Find the Disir." Dagon stiffened, showing a rare sign of emotion.… — Michael Scott
My love is of a birth as rare As 'tis, for object, strange and high; It was begotten by Despair Upon Impossibility. — Andrew Marvell
When people say, "I've told you fifty times," / They mean to scold, and very often do; / When poets say, "I've written fifty rhymes,"… — Lord Byron
I will find you," he whispered in my ear. "I promise. If I must endure two hundred years of purgatory, two hundred years without you… — Diana Gabaldon
How rare were the tears of a dragon. We once lived in paradise and because of the corruption of an angel disgused as a dragon,… — Bryan Davis
Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer. — Kurt Vonnegut
It is almost impossible to describe happiness, because at the time it feels entirely natural, as if all the rest of your life has been… — Margaret George
True beauty is rare, and seldom recognized by the one who possesses it. — Francine Rivers
Nothing is fair. The most one can hope is for things to be logical. Justice is a rare illness in a world that is otherwise… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
It is sweet to dance to violins When love and life are fair: To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes Is delicate and rare:… — Oscar Wilde
No doubt it is true that there is more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner repented than over all the saints who consistently remain holy,… — Booth Tarkington
Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort. Love is not a spontaneous feeling, a thing that you fall into, but is something… — Erich Fromm
and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical sense and are not easy to fool with laughter — Charles Bukowski
Literature, real literature, must not be gulped down like some potion which may be good for the heart or good for the brain—the brain, that… — Vladimir Nabokov
Was love then like a bag of assorted sweets passed around from which one might choose more than once? Some might sting the tongue, some… — Annie Proulx
All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it. And even then, on the rare occasions when something opens within,… — James A. Baldwin
It is very rare or almost impossible that an event can be negative from all points of view. — Dalai Lama
It's a rare thing not to have been bonny-- once. — Samuel Beckett
And still it is not enough to have memories. One must be able to forget them when they are many, and one must have the… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Because, you see, God—whatever anyone chooses to call God—is one's highest conception of the highest possible. And whoever places his highest conception above his own… — Ayn Rand
Common sense is as rare as genius. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Science manipulates things and gives up living in them. It makes its own limited models of things; operating upon these indices or variables to effect… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Good sense tells us that earthly things are rare and fleeting, and that true reality exists only in dreams. To draw sustenance from happiness- natural… — Charles Baudelaire
its a rare thing to know one completly to the core and stil love him — Dean Koontz

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