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• Harshness vanished. A sudden softness has replaced the meadows' wintry grey. Little rivulets of water changed their singing accents. Tendernesses, hesitantly, reach toward the earth from space, and country lanes are showing these unexpected subtle risings that find expression in the empty trees.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Country, Spring, Expression

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• FROZEN DREAM I'll take the dream I had last night And put it in my freezer, So someday long and far away When I'm an old grey geezer, I'll take it out and thaw it out, This lovely dream I've frozen, And boil it up and sit me down A dip my old cold toes in.

  Shel Silverstein

  Inspiring, Dream, Night

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• Time wastes too fast : every letter I trace tells me with what rapidity Life follows my pen ; the days and hours of it, more precious, my dear Jenny! than the rubies about thy neck, are flying over our heads like light clouds of a windy day, never to return more -- every thing presses on -- whilst thou are twisting that lock, -- see! it grows grey ; and every time I kiss thy hand to bid adieu, and every absence which follows it, are preludes to that eternal separation which we are shortly to make!

  Laurence Sterne

  Kissing, Clouds, Light

  Laurence Sterne (1830). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: In One Volume, with a Life of the Author”, p.257

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• I have to keep moving I don't want to think I'm going to work all day today I don't want to stop Don't want to let my brain catch up my thoughts How will I be able to tell them that I'm a shadow A grey patch of cold rotting life

  Henry Rollins

  Moving, Thinking, Brain

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• Oh, 'twould be marvelous if the world and its moral questions were like some game board, with plain black players and white, and fixed rules, and nary a shade of grey.

  Glen Cook

  Player, Games, White

  Glen Cook (2007). “Chronicles of the Black Company”, p.368, Macmillan

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• Grey has no agenda. . . . Grey has the ability, that no other colour has, to make the invisible visible.

  Roma Tearne

  Agendas, Invisible, Ability

  Roma Tearne (2008). “Mosquito”, Europa Editions Incorporated

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• Oh, Grey, no one really likes keeping secrets. The only thing that makes a secret fun is knowing that you weren't supposed to tell it.

  Kate Morton

  Fun, Keeping Secrets, Knowing

  Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden: A Novel”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

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• When he awoke it was dawn. Or something like dawn. The light was watery, dim and incomparably sad. Vast, grey, gloomy hills rose up all around them and in between the hills there was a wide expanse of black bog. Stephen had never seen a landscape so calculated to reduce the onlooker to utter despair in an instant. "This is one of your kingdoms, I suppose, sir?" he said. "My kingdoms?" exclaimed the gentleman in surprize. "Oh, no! This is Scotland!

  Susanna Clarke

  Light, Scotland, Rose

  Susanna Clarke, Portia Rosenberg (2005). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.604, A&C Black

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• What shall I do, singer and first-born, in a world where the deepest black is grey, and inspiration is kept in a thermos? with all this immensity in a measured world?

  Marina Tsvetaeva

  Inspiration, Black, World

  Marina Tsvetaeva (2011). “Bride of Ice: New Selected Poems”, p.86, Carcanet

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• Man's highest blessedness, In wisdom chiefly stands; And in the things that touch upon the Gods, 'Tis best in word or deed To shun unholy pride; Great words of boasting bring great punishments, And so to grey-haired age Teach wisdom at the last.

  Sophocles

  Wisdom, Pride, Men

  Sophocles, Edward Hayes PLUMPTRE (Dean of Wells.) (1867). “The Tragedies of Sophocles. A new translation, with a biographical essay by E. H. Plumptre”, p.177

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• The world is always full of brilliant youth which fades into grey and embittered middle age: the first flowering takes everything. The great men are those who have developed slowly, or who have been able to survive the glamour of their early florescence and to go on learning from life.

  Willa Cather

  Men, Age, Goes On

  Willa Cather (1988). “Not Under Forty”, p.116, U of Nebraska Press

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• So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease Gathered, not harshly plucked, for death mature: This is old age; but then thou must outlive Thy youth, thy strength, thy beauty, which will change To withered weak and grey.

  John Milton

  Mother, Age, Lap

  1665 Michael to Adam. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.11, l.535-40.

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• To me, grey is the welcome and only possible equivalent for indifference, noncommitment, absence of opinion, absence of shape. But grey, like formlessness and the rest, can be real only as an idea, and so all I can do is create a colour nuance that means grey but is not it. The painting is then a mixture of grey as a fiction and grey as a visible, designated area of colour.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Real, Mean

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007”

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• I was asked to be in the last two 'Harry Potter' films and I couldn't do it because I was busy filming 'Grey's Anatomy.

  Kevin McKidd

  Two, Potters, Lasts

  "KEVIN MCKIDD SAYS HE TURNED DOWN 'BIG VILLAIN' CHARACTER IN FINAL 'HARRY POTTER' FILMS" by Eric Ditzian, www.mtv.com. February 09, 2010.

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• I use very little red. I use blue, yellow, a little green, but especially... black, white and grey. There is a certain need in me for communication with human beings. Black and white is writing.

  Hans Arp

  Communication, Writing, Black And White

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• People think that everyone wears black in France; in fact they all wear grey.

  Jean Paul Gaultier

  Thinking, People, Black

  Interview with Celia Walden, fashion.telegraph.co.uk. December 8, 2010.

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• I wanted to see people from different age groups, body shapes and personalities wearing Lanvin That is what Lanvin is all about and represents - we dont only do clothes for 20-year-old girls. I love to see mature women wearing Lanvin as well. I love wrinkles, I love grey hair.

  Alber Elbaz

  Girl, Clothes, Wrinkles

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• Thus for each blunt-faced ignorant one The great grey rigid uniform combined Safety with virtue of the sun. Thus concepts linked like chainmail in the mind.

  Thom Gunn

  Safety, Ignorant, Mind

  Thom Gunn (2017). “Selected Poems of Thom Gunn”, p.57, Faber & Faber

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• There comes a terrible moment to many souls when the great movements of the world, the larger destinies of mankind, which have lain aloof in newspapers and other neglected reading, enter like an earthquake into their own lives--when the slow urgency of growing generations turns into the tread of an invading army or the dire clash of civil war, and grey fathers know nothing to seek for but the corpses of their blooming sons, and girls forget all vanity to make lint and bandages which may serve for the shattered limbs of their betrothed husbands.

  George Eliot

  Girl, Husband, War

  George Eliot (2009). “Daniel Deronda”, p.689, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Grey. It makes no statement whatever; it evokes neither feelings nor associations: it is really neither visible nor invisible. Its inconspicuousness gives it the capacity to mediate, to make visible, in a positively illusionistic way, like a photograph. It has the capacity that no other colour has, to make 'nothing' visible.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Giving, Feelings

  Robert Storr, Gerhard Richter (2000). “Gerhard Richter: October 18, 1977”, ABRAMS

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• Grey time-worn marbles Hold the pure Muses. In their cool gallery, By yellow Tiber, They still look fair.

  Matthew Arnold

  Yellow, Looks, Muse

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.179, Delphi Classics

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• When all candles are out, all cats are grey,
  All things are then of one color, as who say.
  And this proverb faith, for quenching hot desire,
  Foul water as soon as faire, will quench hot fire.

  John Heywood

  Cat, Water, Hot

  "Proverbs". Part I, chapter 5, 1546.

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• The world, that grey-bearded and wrinkled profligate, decrepit, without being venerable.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  World, Decrepit

  1851 The House of the Seven Gables, ch.12.

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• The sun of the mind, and the life of the heart is Wisdom. She is pure and full of light, crowning grey hairs with lustre, And kindling the eye of youth with a fire not its own.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Wisdom, Heart, Eye

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1867). “Proverbial Philosophy (the First and Second Series) by Martin F. Tupper”, p.6

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• A face peered. All the grey night In chaos of vacancy shone; Nought but vast Sorrow was there The sweet cheat gone.

  Walter de La Mare

  Sweet, Night, Sorrow

  'The Ghost' (1918)

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