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• Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words…By means of art were are sometimes sent - dimly, briefly - revelations unattainable by reason.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Art, Mean, Unattainable

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• ...reality, the name we give to the common experience.

  Tom Stoppard

  Reality, Giving, Common Experience

  Tom Stoppard (2007). “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead”, p.21, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• My name is Squirrelpaw, but I never thought I'd wish I was one!

  Erin Hunter

  Wish

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• It was a splendid population - for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home - you never find that sort of people among pioneers - you cannot build pioneers out of that sort of material. It was that population that gave to California a name for getting up astounding enterprises and rushing them through with a magnificent dash and daring and a recklessness of cost or consequences, which she bears unto this day - and when she projects a new surprise the grave world smiles as usual and says, "Well, that is California all over.

  Mark Twain

  Home, California, Rushing

  Mark Twain (2017). “Mark Twain, the Globetrotter: Complete Travel Books, Memoirs & Anecdotes (Illustrated Edition): A Tramp Abroad, The Innocents Abroad, Roughing It, Old Times on the Mississippi, Life on the Mississippi, Following the Equator & Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion, With Author’s Biography”, p.999, e-artnow

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• If I am going to be drowned – if I am going to be drowned – if I am going to be drowned, why in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate land and trees?

  Stephen Crane

  Sea, Land, Mad

  Stephen Crane (1984). “Prose and Poetry”, p.898, Library of America

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• Of course we're Christian. The very name of the church declares that. The more people see us and come to know us, the more I believe they will come to realize that we are trying to exemplify in our lives and in our living the great ideals which (Jesus Christ) taught.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Christian, Jesus, Believe

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• There is fear hanging in the air of the sleeping halls, and the air of the streets. Fear walks through the city, fear without name, without shape. All men feel it and none dare speak.

  Ayn Rand

  Fear, Sleep, Men

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Anthem”, p.20, Xist Publishing

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• He returns years later, has no demands. He wants only one, most precious thing: To see, purely and simply, without name, Without expectations, fears, or hopes, At the edge where there is no I or not-I.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Years, Expectations, Want

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• Forget the suffering You caused others. Forget the suffering Others caused you. The waters run and run, Springs sparkle and are done, You walk the earth you are forgetting. Sometimes you hear a distant refrain. What does it mean, you ask, who is singing? A childlike sun grows warm. A grandson and a great-grandson are born. You are led by the hand once again. The names of the rivers remain with you. How endless those rivers seem! Your fields lie fallow, The city towers are not as they were. You stand at the threshold mute.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Running, Spring, Lying

  Czeslaw Milosz, “Forget”

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• I carried Rudy softly through the broken street...with him I tried a little harder at comforting. I watched the contents of his soul for a moment and saw a black-painted boy calling the name Jesse Owens as he ran through an imaginary tape. I saw him hip-deep in some icy water, chasing a book, and I saw a boy lying in bed, imagining how a kiss would taste from his glorious next-door neighbor. He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It's his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.

  Markus Zusak

  Lying, Book, Heart

  "The Book Thief". Book by Markus Zusak, 2005.

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• The name of the new religion," said Rumfoord, "is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Church, Said, Indifferent

  Kurt Vonnegut (2007). “The Sirens of Titan”, p.183, Dial Press

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• I have seen the dark universe yawning Where the black planets roll without aim, Where they roll in their horror unheeded, Without knowledge, or lustre, or name.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Dark, Yawning, Black

  H. P. Lovecraft (2016). “H. P. LOVECRAFT äóñ Ultimate Collection: 120+ Works ALL in One Volume: Complete Novellas & Short Stories, Juvenilia, Poetry, Essays & Collaborations: The Call of Cthulhu, The Shadow Out of Time, At the Mountains of Madness, The Dunwich Horror, Dagon, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, The Outsider, The Whisperer in Darkness, The Cats of Ultharäó_”, p.1264, e-artnow

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• Frailty, thy name is woman!

  William Shakespeare

  Funny, Memorable, Sassy

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 129

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• Tell me a story.
  In this century, and moment, of mania,
  Tell me a story.
  Make it a story of great distances, and starlight.
  The name of the story will be Time,
  But you must not pronounce its name.
  Tell me a story of deep delight.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Distance, Delight, Stories

  Robert Penn Warren, “Tell Me A Story”

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• You write your name in the snow Yet say nothing.

  Voltaire

  Writing, Snow

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• But the reason I call myself by my childhood name is to remind myself that a scientist must also be absolutely like a child. If he sees a thing, he must say that he sees it, whether it was what he thought he was going to see or not. See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting.

  Douglas Adams

  Children, Thinking, Childhood

  Douglas Adams (2009). “So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish”, p.108, Pan Macmillan

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• Again: there is nothing inherently superior about resistance. All our claims for the righteousness of resistance rest on the rightness of the claim that the resisters are acting in the name of justice. And the justice of the cause does not depend on, and is not enhanced by, the virtue of those who make the assertion. It depends first and last on the truth of a description of a state of affairs that is, truly, unjust and unnecessary.

  Susan Sontag

  Justice, Acting, Doe

  Susan Sontag (2007). “At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches”, p.184, Macmillan

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• I became a firefighter because I wanted to save people. But I should have been more specific. I should have named names.

  Jodi Picoult

  Parenting, Should Have, People

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.178, Simon and Schuster

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• Witch Baby wanted to ask Ping how to find her Jah-Love angel. She knew Raphael was not him, even though Raphael had the right eyes and smile and name. She knew how he looked--the angel in her dream--but she didn't know how to find him. Should she roller-skate through the streets in the evenings when the streetlights flicker on? Should she stow away to Jamaica on a cruise ship and search for him in the rain forests and along the beaches? Would he come to her? Was he waiting, dreaming of her in the same way she waited and dreamed?

  Francesca Lia Block

  Dream, Baby, Beach

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• In most of my campaigns, I find it is best not to mention my opponent by name because, by doing so, it just gives him a chance to get into the headlines.

  Harry S. Truman

  Giving, Campaigns, Opponents

  Harry S. Truman (1967). “The Quotable Harry S. Truman”, Anderson, S.C. : Droke House, distributed by Grosset & Dunlap

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• A soul trembling to sit by a hearth so bright, To exist again, it’s enough if I borrow from Your lips the breath of my name you murmur all night.

  Stephane Mallarme

  Night, Soul, Lips

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• God is pursuing with omnipotent passion a worldwide purpose of gathering joyful worshipers for Himself from every tribe and tongue and people and nation. He has an inexhaustible enthusiasm for the supremacy of His name among the nations. Therefore, let us bring our affections into line with His, and, for the sake of His name, let us renounce the quest for worldly comforts and join His global purpose.

  John Piper

  Passion, People, Christian Inspirational

  John Piper (2010). “Let the Nations Be Glad!: The Supremacy of God in Missions”, p.62, Baker Academic

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• She had...the glimmerings of a sense of humour - which is simply another name for a sense of the fitness of things.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Humour

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• The dove descending breaks the air With flame of incandescent terror Of which the tongues declare The one discharge from sin and error. The only hope, or else despair Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre- To be redeemed from fire by fire. Who then devised the torment? Love. Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove. We only live, only suspire Consumed by either fire or fire.

  T. S. Eliot

  Lying, Love Is, Fire

  Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 4 (1942)

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• Let your heart look on white sea spray and be lonely. Love is a fool star. You and a ring of stars may mention my name and then forget me. Love is a fool star.

  Carl Sandburg

  Lonely, Stars, Heart

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “Honey and Salt”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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