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Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

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It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it. ↗

— Georgia O'Keeffe

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Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite dress, came from the bottom, and he's not a trash can. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

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I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should be 'the happiest moment' of one's life. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

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Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying. ↗

— Langston Hughes

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I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing. ↗

— Bernard Malamud

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I want to lead the Victorian life, surrounded by exquisite clutter. ↗

— Freddie Mercury

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