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Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer.
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The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.
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The butterfly, a cabbage-white, (His honest idiocy of flight) Will never now, it is too late, Master the art of flying straight.
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There is one story and one story only.
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Before an attack, the platoon pools all its available cash and the survivors divide it up afterwards. Those who are killed can't…
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The old lady told me that all the girls in the village of Annezin prayed every night for the War to end,…
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We once discussed which were the cleanest troops in the trenches, taken by nationalities. We agreed on a descending-order like this: English…
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The gas-cylinders had by this time been put into position on the front line. A special order came round imposing severe penalties…
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No honest theologian therefore can deny that his acceptance of Jesus as Christ logically binds every Christian to a belief in reincarnation…
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Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.
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To recommend a monarchy on account of the prosperity it gives the provinces seems to me like recommending that a man should…
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Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought, patience or…
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Valentine's Day money-saving tips: Break up on February 13th, get back together on the 15th. In place of bubble bath, use lavender-scented…
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Our eyes reflect light. Better that the lips are more like a rose petal.
— Olivier Theyskens
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You know, maybe I was just born in the wrong time, but I love all things romantic. Puffy understands that. For my…
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Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
— Don Marquis
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Her body was wrapped in shadows like moth wings, like rose-petals.
— Stephen King
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In mythos and fairy tales, deities and other great spirits test the hearts of humans by showing up in various forms that…
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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Dead fields under a November sky, scattered rose petals brown and turning up at the edges, empty pools scummed with algae, rot,…
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The difference between you and her (whom I to you did once prefer) Is clear enough to settle: She like a diamond…
— Robert Graves
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They had a year of joy, twelve months of the strange heaven which the salmon know on beds of river shingle, under…
— T.H. White
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Salt is added to dried rose petals with the perfume and spices, when we store them away in covered jars, the summers…
— Wallace Stegner
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Curse him for being all tight muscle, with ivory skin and a mouth as soft as rose petals. Curse him for having…
— Tamora Pierce
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Yep, that's me. I know. I know. You're humbled I'm here, feel like throwing rose petals at my feet, blah, blah, blah.…
— Gena Showalter
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