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• A summer rain had left the night clean and sparkling with drops of water. I leaned against the end pillar of the gallery, my head touching the soft tendrils of a jasmine which grew there in a constant battle with a wisteria, and I thought of what lay before me throughout the world and throughout time, and resolved to go about it delicately and reverently, learning that from each thing which would take me best to another.

  Anne Rice

  Summer, Rain, Night

  Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.50, Ballantine Books

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• Restrooms at gas stations were an unpleasant and shocking surprise; I had never considered the serious drawbacks of such lazily-cleaned rooms. I was completely unable to ignore the filth, and wasted a burst of power to turn the sink, floors and porcelain toilet into sparkling, clean examples of their kind before using the facility. I felt that was a much less judgmental response than simply blowing the place off the face of the Earth, which was also a distinct temptation, especially when the storekeeper overcharged me for a bottle of cold water.

  Rachel Caine

  Water, Temptation, Example

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• there are only these: sparkling eyes, smudged lipstick, fading starlight, the crunching of feet on gravel, laughter, and a slow walk home.

  Jon McGregor

  Laughter, Home, Eye

  Jon McGregor (2014). “If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• ...and the red sun of desire and decision (the two things that create a live world) rose higher and higher, while upon a succession of balconies a succession of libertines, sparkling glass in hand, toasted the bliss of past and future nights.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Past, Night, Glasses

  Vladimir Nabokov (2016). “Lolita”, p.38, Hamilton Books

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• Paradoxically, capital has unleashed myriad objects upon us, in their manifold horror and sparkling splendor. Two hundred years of idealism, two hundred years of seeing humans at the center of existence, and now the objects take revenge, terrifyingly huge, ancient, long-lived, threateningly minute, invading every cell in our body.

  Timothy Morton

  Revenge, Cells, Years

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• Our task is to stand tall in God's love, secure in our place, sparkling in kindness, surrounded by his goodness, freely giving to all who come our way. You, me, and the Christmas tree. Picked, purchased, and pruned.

  Max Lucado

  Kindness, Giving, Tree

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• The sun's champagne streamed from one body into another. And there was a couple on the green silk of the grass, covered by a raspberry umbrella. Only their feet and a little bit of lace could be seen. In the magnificent universe beneath the raspberry umbrella, with closed eyes, they drank in the sparkling madness. 'Extra! Extra! Zeppelins over the North Sea at 3 o'clock.' But under the umbrella, in the raspberry universe, they were immortal. What did it matter that in another far-away universe people would be killing each other?

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Couple, Eye, Sea

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• Nick? Nick Hurley?" I asked, laughing. He took back his hat. "You'll be sorry to hear I don't make gross faces as much as I used to. Now I'd rather smile at girls." "I noticed" He waved his hat around as if he was trying to dry it, his green eyes sparkling at me, as full of fun and trouble as when he was in elementary school. I realxed.

  Elizabeth Chandler

  Girl, Sorry, Fun

  Elizabeth Chandler (2011). “Dark Secrets 1: Legacy of Lies and Don't Tell”, p.219, Simon and Schuster

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• First time I ever took acid and got really high, as I was walking around I thought "Gee. The world looked like this when I was a little kid." I remember seeing the sparkling reality and three-dimensionality of things. Sort of like a renewal, every time you do it is a renewal, it is a renewal. It keeps your head young. It lets you keep that being able to accept the new thing just as easily as a kid would. Most people get all this stuff in their head like an old library, no room for the new volume to go on the shelves.

  Owsley Stanley

  Kids, Reality, People

  Source: medium.com

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• Weetzie wished she could shake blue glitter around all of them - keeping them sparkling and safe.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Blue, Glitter, Safe

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• If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Life, Success, Wine

  Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Either/ Or”

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• Art is a kind of mining," he said. "The artist a variety of prospector searching for the sparkling silver of meaning in the earth.

  Jane Urquhart

  Art, Uranium Mining, Kind

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• Service to humanity is service to God. Let the love and light of the Kingdom radiate through you until all who look upon you shall be illumined by its reflection. Be as stars, brilliant and sparkling in the loftiness of their heavenly station.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Stars, Reflection, Light

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• I think our lives are connected by threads. We're weaving our own quilts as we go along and it has been my experience that there are so many threads that connect people. Invisible threads, strong threads, sparkling threads, but I think there is so much interconnectivity between people and I acknowledge that and I see it all the time. I think some of that is divine.

  Kathy Garver

  Strong, Quilts, Thinking

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The Christian should stand out like a sparkling diamond.

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Standing Out, Should

  Franklin Graham, Billy Graham (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.371, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• How badly I wanted to belong as I had when I was a young Mormon girl, to be simply a working part in the great Mormon plan of salvation, a smiling exemplar of our sparkling difference. But instead I found myself a headstrong Mormon woman staking out her spiritual survival at a difficult point in Mormon history.

  Joanna Brooks

  Girl, Spiritual, Differences

  Joanna Brooks (2012). “The Book of Mormon Girl: A Memoir of an American Faith”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

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• Amid the moon and the stars, amid the clouds of the night, amid the hills which bordered on the sky with their magnificent silhouette of pointed cedars, amid the speckled patches of the moon, amid the temple buildings that emerged sparkling white out of the surrounding darkness - amid all this, I was intoxicated by the pellucid beauty of Uiko's treachery.

  Yukio Mishima

  Stars, Moon, Night

  Yukio Mishima (2011). “The Temple of the Golden Pavilion”, p.29, Tuttle Publishing

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• Pleasure, that immortal essence, the beauteous bead sparkling in the cup, effervesces soon and subsides.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Essence, Cups, Pleasure

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• He made a sound of disgust in the back of his throat. "Oh thank you so much. That's what every man wants to hear about his name. You might as well call me 'Little Pecker' while you're at it and tell me you would love to have me go shopping with you for feminine hygiene products. Oh and by all means, carry a big, sparkling pink bag with flowers on it and make me hold it.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Flower, Mean, Men

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• The narrow path had opened up suddenly onto the edge of a great black lake. Perched atop a high mountain on the other side, its windows sparkling in the starry sky, was a vast castle with many turrets and towers.

  J. K. Rowling

  Lakes, Sky, Black

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• To believe a thing is to see the cool crystal water sparkling in the cup. But to meditate on it is to drink of it. Reading gathers the clusters; contemplation squeezes forth their generous juice.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Believe, Reading, Water

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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• A delightful, intelligent read. Jim Zirin's sparkling account of life in the Second Circuit's famed MOTHER COURT is informative, riveting, accessible, and uplifting.  It would be criminal not to read this book.

  Linda Fairstein

  Uplifting, Mother, Book

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• Man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest robes.

  Herman Melville

  Running, Men, Glowing

  Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.127, Velvet Element Books

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• On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss and infidels adore.

  Alexander Pope

  Kissing, White, Might

  Alexander Pope (2013). “The Rape of the Lock In Plain and Simple English (Translated)”, p.41, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I dislike an eye that twinkles like a star. Those only are beautiful which, like the planets, have a steady lambent light, are luminous, but not sparkling.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Beautiful, Stars, Eye

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1857). “Prose Works”, p.112

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