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Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth. ↗

— William R. Alger

#dark #even #his #pearls #teeth

When I was discharged, I attended the University of Paris and met a beautiful Parisian girl, Janine. We soon married and eventually returned to the States. ↗

— Lloyd Alexander

#beautiful #discharged #eventually #girl #i

It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

#added #contemplated #contemplation #course #enjoyment

I have to be a lot more calculating because I'm a very private person. I actually really struggle with the attention; I'm generally a pretty shy kind of a person. So it's tough figuring out how to manage it. But there are ways of managing it, and you just have to be smart. ↗

— Emily Watson

#attention #because #calculating #figuring #generally

The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

#cold #coldness #degrees #desire #desires

Yes, I lay in my grave. But if you lie in a grave long enough, you get accustomed to it and you don't want to part from it. He had given me a pill of cyanide, He and his wife and their son also carried such pills. We all lived with death, and I want you to know that one can fall in love with death. Whoever has loved death cannot love anything else any more. When the liberation came and they told me to leave, I didn't want to go. I clung to the threshold like an ox being dragged to the slaughter. ("Hanka") ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

#grave #holocaust #death

I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today. ↗

— Penelope Keith

#am #believer #culture #future #future generations

When we come to images or memories or thoughts, speculation, while always closely related to practice, is more explicit, and it is in fact not immediately obvious that such processes can be described in any sense as practical. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

#any #closely #come #described #explicit

I believe life takes us where we need to be. ↗

— Sasha Alexander

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I could play everything but could never take a lead. My brain just doesn't work like that. ↗

— Kip Winger

#could #everything #i #just #lead