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• Summer weather, like being in love,is a philosopher's stone which turns our ordinary days to gold. But not the whole day ... For it is never the whole day, never all our life which is transformed in any happiness, but only the exquisite moments.

  Nan Fairbrother

  Summer, Being In Love, Love Is

  Nan Fairbrother (1954). “An English Year”

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• ...Prayer is not always petition, sometimes it is just communion. It is the exquisite ministry of friendship.

  John Henry Jowett

  Prayer, Ministry, Sometimes

  John Henry Jowett (1922). “God - Our Contemporary”

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• Since my stroke, I have begun to see so many miracles all around me. I look out of the window in my room: verdant grass, silver-tipped oak leaves, tall palm trees gentle swaying as they reach to the sky, masses and masses of roses. All colors, so many shapes, exquisite fragrances.

  Kirk Douglas

  Sky, Color, Rose

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• As we enter into exquisite awareness of the life that want to live as us, we learn to love deeply. - We claim our passion.

  Gunilla Brodde Norris

  Passion, Deep Love, Want

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• The coexistence of opposites - stillness and dynamism - makes you independent... When you quietly acknowledge this exquisite coexistence of opposites, you align yourself with the world of energy - the quantum soup, the non-material non-stuff that is the source of the material world. This world energy is fluid, dynamic, resilient, changing, forever in motion. And yet it is also non-changing, still, quiet, eternal and silent.

  Deepak Chopra

  Independent, Opposites, Forever

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• Refined and delicate natures understand the cat. Women, poets, and artists hold it in great esteem, for they recognize the exquisite delicacy of its nervous system; indeed, only coarse natures fail to discern the natural distinction of the cat.

  Champfleury

  Cat, Artist, Delicacy

  Champfleury (1885). “The Cat, Past and Present”

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• The joy of God is so exquisite that any sacrifice is worth the effort and seeming pain.

  David Hawkins

  Pain, Sacrifice, Effort

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• Laughter brightens the eye, increases the perspiration, expands the chest, forces the poisoned air from the least-used cells, and tends to restore that exquisite poise or balance which we call health.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Laughter, Eye, Air

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “Cheerfulness As A Life Power (Unabridged): How to Avoid the Soul-Consuming and Friction-Wearing Tendencies of Everyday Life”, p.5, e-artnow

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• Palermo was lovely. The most beautifully situated town in the world - it dreams away its life in the Conca d'Oro, the exquisite valley that lies between two seas. The lemon groves and the orange gardens were entirely perfect.

  Oscar Wilde

  Dream, Lying, Garden

  Oscar Wilde (1962). “Letters”

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• A nation which lives a pastoral and innocent life never decorates the shepherd's staff or the plough-handle; but races who live by depredation and slaughter nearly always bestow exquisite ornaments on the quiver, the helmet, and the spear.

  John Ruskin

  Race, Shepherds, Ornaments

  John Ruskin (1859). “The two paths: being lectures on art, and its application to decoration and manufacture, delivered in 1858-9”, p.17

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• Dylan Landis knows how to unnerve a reader, even as she's appreciating being unnerved. Rainey Royal thrums with sex and power. A brave, exquisite book.

  Mary Kay Zuravleff

  Sex, Book, Appreciate

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• The secret to happiness is to lower your expectations. ...that is what you compare your experience with. If your expectations and standards are very high and only allow yourself to be happy when things are exquisite, you'll never be happy and grateful. There will always be some flaw. But compare your experience with lower expectations, especially something not as good, and you'll find much in your experience of the world to love, cherish and enjoy, every single moment.

  Charlie Munger

  Gratitude, Grateful, Single Mom

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• Suffering accepted and vanquished. . . . will give you a serenity which may well prove the most exquisite fruit of your life.

  Desire-Joseph Mercier

  Sadness, Giving, Serenity

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• The most exquisite words and finest strokes of an author are those which very often appear the most doubtful and exceptionable to a man who wants a relish for polite learning; and they are those which a sour undistinguishing critic generally attacks with the greatest violence.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Want, Violence

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1852). “The Spectator”, p.331

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• The flamingoes are the most delicately colored of all the African birds, pink and red like a flying twig of an oleander bush. They have incredibly long legs and bizarre and recherché curves of their necks and bodies, as if from some exquisite traditional prudery they were making all attitudes and movements in life as difficult as possible.

  Isak Dinesen

  Attitude, Curves, Long

  Isak Dinesen (1938). “Out of Africa”

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• The work reveals the creator - and as our universe in its vastness, its orderliness, its exquisite detail, tells us something of the One who made it, so a work of fiction, for better or worse, will reveal the writer.

  Katherine Paterson

  Details, Fiction, Vastness

  Katherine Paterson (2001). “The Invisible Child: On Reading and Writing Books for Children”, Dutton Juvenile

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• Our own interests are still an exquisite means for dazzling our eyes agreeably.

  Blaise Pascal

  Mean, Eye, Interest

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• Conversation in its happiest development is a link, equally exquisite and adequate, between mind and mind, a system by which men approach one another with sympathy and enjoyment, a field for the finest amenities of civilization, for the keenest and most intelligent display of social activity. It is also our solace, our inspiration, and our most rational pleasure. It is a duty we owe to one another; it is our common debt to humanity.

  Agnes Repplier

  Inspiration, Intelligent, Men

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• Gary Snyder's The Practice of the Wild is an exquisite, far-sighted articulation of what freedom, wildness, goodness, and grace mean, using the lessons of the planet to teach us how to live.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Mean, Practice, Grace

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• We may remark in passing that to be blind and beloved may, in this world where nothing is perfect, be among the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness. The supreme happiness in life is the assurance of being loved; of being loved for oneself, even in spite of oneself; and this assurance the blind man possesses. In his affliction, to be served is to be caressed. Does he lack anything? no. Possessing love he is not deprived of light. A love, moreover, that is wholly pure. There can be no blindness where there is this certainty.

  Victor Hugo

  Life, Men, Light

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• Updike's style is an exquisite blend of Melville and Austen: reading him is like cutting through whale blubber with embroidery scissors.

  Florence King

  Reading, Cutting, Whales

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.168, Macmillan

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• If the souls of lives were voiced in music, there are some that none but a great organ could express, others the clash of a full orchestra, a few to which nought but the refined and exquisite sadness of a violin could do justice. Many might be likened unto common pianos, jangling and out of tune, and some to the feeble piping of a penny whistle, and mine could be told with a couple of nails in a rusty tin-pot.

  Miles Franklin

  Couple, Sadness, Piano

  Miles Franklin (2009). “My Brilliant Career”, p.456, The Floating Press

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• I have never cared very deeply about the actual taste of my work. Let its essential odor satisfy my mind and senses, and I am content. I rarely judge by the grosser test of actual gustation ... in cooking, to create a masterpiece for the nose alone - that is exquisite, that is Art!

  Elinor Wylie

  Art, Judging, Cooking

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• All through autumn we hear a double voice: one says everything is ripe; the other says everything is dying. The paradox is exquisite. We feel what the Japanese call "aware"--an almost untranslatable word meaning something like "beauty tinged with sadness.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Sadness, Autumn, Meaning Something

  Gretel Ehrlich (1985). “The solace of open spaces”, Viking Pr

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• The exquisite sight, sound, and smell of wilderness is many times more powerful if it is earned through physical achievement, if it comes at the end of a long and fatiguing trip for which vigorous good health is necessary. Practically speaking, this means that no one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.

  Garrett Hardin

  Mother, Powerful, Mean

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