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• ... since she might not be splendid, she would at least be immaculate.

  Henry James

  Might, Splendid

  Henry James (2015). “Washington Square (Unabridged): Satirical Novel from the famous author of the realism movement, known for Portrait of a Lady, The Ambassadors, The Princess Casamassima, The Bostonians, The American…”, p.53, e-artnow

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• For as long as I care to remember, religion, like the striptease, has always been a display of the power of suggestion. Like the Virgin Birth, it has all too often supported an immaculate deception.

  Bernard Katz

  Hype, Long, Deception

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• She liked to imagine that when she passed, the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was. Except when she was at work, no one knew where she was at any time of day and no one waited for her. It was immaculate anonymity.

  Alice Sebold

  World, Imagine, Time Of Day

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.177, Pan Macmillan

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• I have this desire to have this immaculate form of love that really doesn't exist, so my obsession goes on through life and I never find it and I end up miserable. But it makes me a better writer.

  Angel Haze

  Desire, Goes On, Obsession

  "Rapper Angel Haze on religion, rape and survival" by Alex Macpherson, www.theguardian.com. January 31, 2013.

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• When I see someone with an immaculate sketchbook, I don't trust that person.

  Kody Chamberlain

  Sketchbooks, Don't Trust, Persons

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• My soul-bird loves my body-cage Only when it is kept fit, Pure and absolutely immaculate.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Bird, Soul, Body

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• Poltinus the Platonist proves by means of the blossoms and leaves that from the Supreme God, whose beauty is invisible and ineffable, Providence reaches down to the things of earth here below. He points out that these frail and mortal objects could not be endowed with a beauty so immaculate and so exquisitely wrought, did they not issue from the Divinity which endlessly prevades with its invisible and unchanging beauty all things.

  Saint Augustine

  Mean, Issues, Religion

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• And this do I call immaculate perception of all things: to want nothing else from them, but to be allowed to lie before them as a mirror with a hundred facets.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Reality, Mirrors

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• I'll be your mess,you be mine That was the deal that we had signed I bought a hazmat suit to clean up your waste Gas masks,gloves,to keep us safe But now i'm alone in an empty room Staring down immaculate doom "Messy

  Gayle Forman

  Empty Rooms, Gloves, Safe

  FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from Jul 15, 2015

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• I will say that the food in both Japan and Italy was immaculate. I don't remember having bad food in either country.

  Daniel Gillies

  Country, Japan, Remember

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What we have to understand that we have to believe into things which can be proved. Now the time has come that Divine itself has to be proved. That God Almighty has to be proved. That Christ as a son of God has to be proved, that His birth as immaculate conception has to be proved. Not by argument, not by reasoning, nor by blind faith but by actualization on your central nervous system.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Believe

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• To give worthy praise to the Lord's mercy, we unite ourselves with Your Immaculate Mother, for then our hymn will be more pleasing to You, because She is chosen from among men and angels. Through Her, as through a pure crystal, Your mercy was passed on to us. Through Her, man became pleasing to God; Through Her, streams of grace flowed down upon us.

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  Christian, Mother, Angel

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• Ansel [Adams] always jumped over the fence to photograph, walked past the garbage. He always looked to get an immaculate view, and I spent my life stepping back to include the garbage in my photographic view.

  Rondal Partridge

  Past, Views, Garbage

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• The Immaculate alone has from God the promise of victory over Satan. She seeks souls that will consecrate themselves entirely to her, that will become in her hands forceful instruments for the defeat of Satan and the spread of God's kingdom.

  Maximilian Kolbe

  Christian, Hands, Soul

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• Wherefore, as I have said to you, I, God, have become man, and man has become God by the union of My Divine Nature with your human nature. This greatness is given in general to all rational creatures, but, among these I have especially chosen My ministers for the sake of your salvation, so that, through them, the Blood of the humble and immaculate Lamb, My only-begotten Son, may be administered to you.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Humble, Son, Greatness

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• I stared at the enormous homes, the landscaping and flower beds immaculate. It was as if dollar bills, instead of leaves, hung from the trees.

  Ruta Sepetys

  Flower, Home, Tree

  Ruta Sepetys (2013). “Out of The Easy”, p.48, Penguin

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• If anyone does not in accord with the Holy Fathers acknowledge the holy and ever virgin and immaculate Mary was really and truly the Mother of God, inasmuch as she, in the fullness of time,and without seed, conceived by the Holy Spirit, God in the Word Himself, who before all time was born of God the Father, and without loss of integrity brought Him forth, and after His birth preserved her virginity inviolate, let him be condemned.

  Pope Martin I

  Mother, Religious, Father

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• Every reader has found charms by which to secure possession of a page that, by magic, becomes as if never read before, fresh and immaculate.

  Alberto Manguel

  Magic, Pages, Charm

  Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.205, Vintage Canada

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• May I give you some advice for you to put into practice daily? When your heart makes you feel those low cravings, say slowly to the Immaculate Virgin: Look on me with compassion. Don't abandon me. Don't abandon me, my Mother! - And recommend this prayer to others.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Mother, Religious, Prayer

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• She said it out loud, the words distributed into a room that was full of cold air and books. Books everywhere! Each wall was armed with overcrowded yet immaculate shelving. It was barely possible to see paintwork. There were all different styles and sizes of lettering on the spines of the black, the red, the gray, the every-colored books. It was one of the most beautiful things Liesel Meminger had ever seen. With wonder, she smiled. That such a room existed!

  Markus Zusak

  Beautiful, Wall, Book

  Markus Zusak (2016). “The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.100, Random House

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• The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated, except by those whose feelings are withered by vitiated society. Holy, simple, and beautiful in its construction, it is the emblem of all we can imagine of fidelity and truth.

  Washington Irving

  Beautiful, Mother, Children

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• Everywhere - all over Africa and South America - you see these suburbs springing up. They represent the optimum of what people want. There's a certain sort of logic leading towards these immaculate suburbs. And they're terrifying, because they are the death of the soul. This is the prison this planet is being turned into.

  J. G. Ballard

  America, People, Soul

  October 30, 1982 Interview, Re/Search, No. 8/9, 1984.

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• Antiquity was often delighted to cast a halo of mythical glory around its illustrious names. The immortal works of this great philosopher seemed to entitle him to more than mortal honors. A legend into the authenticity of which we will abstain from inquiring, asserted that his mother, Perictione, a pure virgin, suffered an immaculate conception through the influence of Apollo. The god declared to Ariston, to whom she was about to be married, the parentage of the child.

  John William Draper

  Mother, Children, Names

  John William Draper (1876). “History of the Intellectual Development of Europe”, p.151

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• O Jesus, my Divine Saviour, I offer You my mind and heart. Direct their movements while I pray, so that I may offer my prayer in union with Your Immaculate Mother.

  Rose Philippine Duchesne

  Mother, Jesus, Prayer

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• There is a great power within that when used in beauty and immaculate purity can cure and heal and cause miracles. When you use it it spreads like a magic garden and when you do not use it it recedes from you.

  Lord Buckley

  Garden, Miracle, Magic

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