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• Layla brought her arms around herself, no doubt because she was remembering the feel of another, stronger set. "I have wanted to, but he holds back. I hope...I believe it is because he wishes to mate me properly first, in ceremony." Payne felt the awful weight of premonition. "Beware, sister. You are a gentle soul." Layla got to her feet, her smile now saddened. "Yes, I am. But I would rather my heart be broken than unopened and I know that one must ask if one is to receive.

  J.R. Ward

  Believe, Heart, Feet

  J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 5-8”, p.2857, Penguin

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• The word landed with a stony thud Onto my still-beating breast. Nevermind, I was prepared, I will manage with the rest. I have a lot of work to do today; I need to slaughter memory, Turn my living soul to stone Then teach myself to live again. . . But how. The hot summer rustles Like a carnival outside my window; I have long had this premonition Of a bright day and a deserted house.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Summer, Memories, Long

  Anna Akhmatova, “Requiem”

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• My mother had a premonition from the very word 'GO.' She knew there was something to be afraid of and the only thing that she felt strongly about was that to say a ship was unsinkable was flying in the face of God. Those were her words.

  Eva Hart

  Mother, Flying, Ships

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• Only the dead are truly smart, truly cool. Nothing touches them. While I live, however, I side with bumbling suffering crooked life, with anger rather than boredom, with sweet lust, hunger & carelessness...against the icy avant-guard & its fashionable premonitions of the sepulcher.

  Hakim Bey

  Sweet, Smart, Boredom

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• It's true that I have very little idea what I shall be writing next, but at the same time I have a powerful premonition of everything that lies ahead of me, even ten years ahead.

  J. G. Ballard

  Powerful, Lying, Writing

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• History repeats the old conceits, the glib replies, the same defeats.

  Elvis Costello

  Future, Defeat, Conceit

  Song: Beyond Belief, Album: Imperial Bedroom, 1982

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• A first premonition of the rich variety of life had come to him; for the first time he thought he had understood the nature of human beings - they needed each other even when they appeared hostile, and it was very sweet to be loved by them.

  Stefan Zweig

  Sweet, Firsts, Rich

  Stefan Zweig (2008). “Burning Secret”, p.76, Pushkin Press

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• I have a premonition that will not leave me: as it goes with Israel so will it go with all of us. Should Israel perish, the holocaust will be upon us.

  Eric Hoffer

  Israel, Holocaust, Should

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• I have long had this premonition of a bright day and a deserted house

  Anna Akhmatova

  Long, House, Hot Summer

  Anna Akhmatova, “Requiem”

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• In this bright future you can't forget your past.

  Bob Marley

  Life, Dream, Future

  Song: No Woman, No Cry

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• I do not love the sea. The look of it is disquieting. There is something in the very sound of it that stirs the premonition felt while we listen to noble music; we become inexplicably troubled.

  H. M. Tomlinson

  Sea, Sound, Looks

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• Armies gather in the East for the war that's soon to come. Death will march with the mark of the beast, so seek the light and walk with the Son.

  Randy Travis

  War, Future, Son

  Song: Jerusalem's Cry, Album: Rise and Shine

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• Writing of history is our only heuristic principle. The Germans have a word for it, einfühlen. It is the ability to experience the past in the present and to recreate it. In my books, I have tried to recreate it in the most natural way possible: History must be integrated into the story without the weight of premonition.

  Gore Vidal

  Book, Writing, Past

  "The End of Gore Vidal". Interview with Lila Azam Zanganeh, www.guernicamag.com. August 15, 2012.

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• Warlords of sorrow and queens of tomorrow will offer their heads for a prayer. You can't find no salvation, you have no expectations anytime, anyplace, anywhere.

  Bob Dylan

  Queens, Prayer, Future

  Song: No Time to Think, Album: Street Legal, 1978

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• He who today utters a bold truth that seems to shock some old institution with the premonition of destruction, and that scares men from their propriety, will a hundred years hence be regarded as a remarkably conservative man. And yet the people who stand peculiarly upon what they call the foundations of conservatism, and hold to hard, practical facts, now stand upon that which one hundred years ago was rank heresy.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Men, Years, People

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• In hindsight, I realized I could see into the future. Which is kind of like having premonitions of flashbacks.

  Steven Wright

  Insightful, Kind, Hindsight

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• I believe I'm a caterpillar buried deep down under the ground. The entire earth is above me, crushing me and I begin to bore through the soil, making a passage to the surface so that I can penetrate the crust and issue into the light. It's hard work boring through the entire earth, but I'm able to be patient because I have a strong premonition that as soon as I do issue into the light I shall become a butterfly.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Crush, Strong, Believe

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• Have we not huddled in bunkers, while some premonition of tomorrow hung in the air and a comrade started singing? Oh, it felt so melancholy! And it was kitsch.

  Robert Musil

  Air, Singing, Kitsch

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• It seemed incredible to me that day without premonitions or symbols should be the one of my inexorable death .

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Incredibles, Should, Symbols

  Jorge Luis Borges (1999). “Everything and Nothing”, p.40, New Directions Publishing

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• The Forsytes were resentful of something, not individually, but as a family; this resentment expressed itself in an added perfection of raiment, an exuberance of family cordiality, an exaggeration of family importance, and the sniff. Danger so indispensable in bringing out the fundamental quality of any society, group, or individual was what the Forsytes scented; the premonition of danger put a burnish on their armour. For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.

  John Galsworthy

  Perfection, Quality, Fundamentals

  John Galsworthy (2016). “The Forsyte Saga, Complete: England Literature”, p.9, 谷月社

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• Anything Can Happen, on the other hand, is not only about the atrociousness of the September 11 attack, it is also a premonition of the deadly retaliation that was bound to come.

  Seamus Heaney

  Hands, September 11, Retaliation

  Source: harvardmagazine.com

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• Tomorrow I see change, a chance to build a new. Built on spirit intent of heart, and ideals based on truth.

  Tupac Shakur

  Future, Heart, Tomorrow

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• There's no money back guarantee on future happiness.

  Elvis Costello

  Future, Guarantees, No Money

  Song: The Long Honeymoon, Album: Imperial Bedroom

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• Rap's the occupation, but one day watch I'll be Pimp of the Nation.

  Kid Rock

  Future, Rap, Pimp

  Song: Pimp of the Nation, Album: Grits Sandwiches for Breakfast, 1990

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• Take a look at my face, I am the future.

  Alice Cooper

  Future, Looks, Faces

  Song: I Am the Future, Album: Zipper Catches Skin

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