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• I am dying: it's a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh of the cello: dying. But the sound of it is the only beautiful thing about it.

  Sonya Hartnett

  Beautiful, Long, Dying

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• Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.

  Michael Jackson

  Beautiful, Hurt, Life Is

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• The soul grows into lovely habits as easily as into ugly ones, and the moment a life begins to blossom into beautiful words and deeds, that moment a new standard of conduct is established, and your eager neighbors look to you for a continuous manifestation of the good cheer, the sympathy, the ready wit, the comradeship, or the inspiration, you once showed yourself capable of. Bear figs for a season or two, and the world outside the orchard is very unwilling you should bear thistles.

  Kate Douglas Wiggin

  Beautiful, Cheer, Inspiration

  Kate Douglas Wiggin (2016). “REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM & NEW CHRONICLES OF REBECCA (Children’s Book Classics): Adventure Novels”, p.124, e-artnow

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• Is it love, obsession, infatuation? You don't know. You think of a strange and beautiful word you read about once, Limerance, a psychological term, meaning an obsessive love, a state that's almost like a drug. Need like a wolf paces the perimeter of your world, back and forth, back and forth, never letting up. ...You're appalled by the new appetites within you, kicking their feet and clawing to get out.

  Nikki Gemmell

  Beautiful, Thinking, Feet

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• Truth possesses within herself a penetrating force, unknown alike to error and falsehood. I say 'truth' and you understand my meaning. For the beautiful words truth and justice need not to be defined in order to be understood in their true sense.

  Anatole France

  Beautiful, Errors, Order

  Anatole France (2015). “The Amethyst Ring: Works by France”, p.75, 谷月社

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• A beautiful word in the middle of a sentence can sometimes reduce me to tears in an interview, and when I'm reading, too. I've sometimes wondered whether I'm at the point of tears all the time because I use my eyes so much that they're strained and on the verge of tears anyway.

  Michael Silverblatt

  Beautiful, Reading, Eye

  Interview with Sarah Fay, believermag.com. June 1, 2010.

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• Jazz is a beautiful word. I love it.

  Dexter Gordon

  Music, Beautiful, Jazz

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• Enthusiasm is the most beautiful word on earth.

  Christian Morgenstern

  Beautiful, Earth, Enthusiasm

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• I think 'modesty' is a beautiful word today - and a beautiful attitude.

  Alber Elbaz

  Beautiful, Attitude, Thinking

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• I think 'vegan' is a beautiful word. It is more than just a description for our diet. I see it as a visible template for an ethical, healthy, responsible, and rational life. Because it describes our character, it says we do not take the life of another living being to satisfy our wants.

  Philip Wollen

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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• The most beautiful words in the English language are 'not guilty'.

  Maxim Gorky

  Beautiful, Money, Business

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• In the word question, there is a beautiful word - quest. I love that word.

  Elie Wiesel

  Beautiful, Quests

  "Oprah Talks to Elie Wiesel". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. November 2000.

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• Because of the Saviors Atonement, repentance is a beautiful word and a marvelous refuge.

  Theodore M. Burton

  Beautiful, Atonement, Repentance

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• The most beautiful sea hasn't been crossed yet.
  The most beautiful child hasn't grown up yet.
  The most beautiful days we haven't seen yet.
  And the most beautiful words I wanted to tell you
  I haven't said yet.

  Naz?m Hikmet

  Beautiful, Children, Sea

  Nâzım Hikmet, Mutlu Konuk Blasing (1994). “Poems of Nazim Hikmet”

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• Many prayers are declined because of the rank odor of a corrupt heart, rising through the beautiful words. Let the words be wrong but the meaning right. . . .
  That flawed utterance is dearer to God!

  Rumi

  Beautiful, Prayer, Heart

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• Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

  Laozi

  Beauty, Beautiful, Thought Provoking

  Laozi, D. C. Lau (1989). “Tao Te Ching”, p.117, Chinese University Press

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• I like to write about the way things used to be and paint pictures of my memories with beautiful words and melodies.

  Lana Del Rey

  Beautiful, Memories, Writing

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• I see no reason why the artistic world can't absolutely merge with Madison Avenue. Pop art is a move in that direction. Why can't we have advertisements with beautiful words and beautiful images?

  William S. Burroughs

  Beautiful, Art, Moving

  William S. Burroughs (2001). “Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997”, Semiotext

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• Home, bed, sleep, mother--who knew more beautiful words than these?

  Ann Patchett

  Beautiful, Mother, Sleep

  Ann Patchett (2012). “Run”, p.58, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• consolation is a beautiful word. everyone skins his knee-that doesnt make yours hurt anyless.

  Amy Hempel

  Beautiful, Hurt, Skins

  Amy Hempel (2006). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.270, Simon and Schuster

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• There is great worth in holding universal truths and timelessly beautiful words in your heart, which will stay there forever, infusing your thoughts and speech.

  Dan Stevens

  Beautiful, Heart, Forever

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• The Greeks bequeathed to us one of the most beautiful words in our language--the word 'enthusiasm'--en theos--a god within. The grandeur of human actions is measured by the inspiration from which they spring. Happy is he who bears a god within, and who obeys it.

  Louis Pasteur

  Beautiful, Spring, Inspiration

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• What I'm doing, I prefer to call that jazz, because it is a beautiful word - I love it.

  Dexter Gordon

  Music, Beautiful, Jazz

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• The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.

  Laozi

  Beauty, Beautiful, Truth

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• I've always loved the word blunderbuss. I've always thought that it was a beautiful word and that it could mean several different things.

  Jack White

  Beautiful, Mean, Different

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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