#nearest

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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The nearest figure to myself would be Shakespeare. ↗

— Michael Tippett

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The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

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Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us. ↗

— Meister Eckhart

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I don't think radio is selling records like they used to. They'd hawk the song and hawk the artist and you'd get so excited, you'd stop your car and go into the nearest record store. ↗

— Herb Alpert

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Taking a child to the toy store is the nearest thing to a death wish parents can have. ↗

— Fred G. Gosman

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The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch. ↗

— George Byron

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I'm not feeling very well - I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course. ↗

— Groucho Marx

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If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up. ↗

— Abraham Maslow

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The nearest the modern general or admiral comes to a small-arms encounter of any sort is at a duck hunt in the company of corporation executives at the retreat of Continental Motors, Inc. ↗

— C. Wright Mills

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