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• And so began something that had not quite begun and would not soon end, with many people in many places moving off in directions and on missions which they all mistakenly thought they understood. That was just as well. The future was too fearful for contemplation, and beyond the expected, illusory finish lines were things fated by the decisions made this morning -- and, once decided, best unseen.

  Tom Clancy

  Morning, Moving, People

  Tom Clancy (2010). “Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan”, p.2389, Penguin

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• A kiss can be like the world turning over. It can be like the tide of a dragon's dream washing through the unseen world that is hidden to mortal eyes but that nevertheless permeates our being. It can be hot and cold together, as vast as the heavens and yet specific to the pressure of hands and the parting of lips. It raised more intense feelings than I had expected, like being engulfed in a storm of lightning.

  Kate Elliott

  Dream, Eye, Kissing

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• Beautiful men and women with distorted shadows came and scorched their handprints onto doors before vanishing skyward, drafts of heat billowing behind them with the whumph of unseen wings. Here and there, feathers fell, and they were like tufts of white fire, disintegrating to ash as soon as they touched the ground.

  Laini Taylor

  Beautiful, Men, White

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• Stay awhile! 'Tis sweet,. . . The rare occasion, when our hearts can speak Our selves unseen, unseeing!

  Edmond Rostand

  Sweet, Heart, Self

  Edmond Rostand (2015). “Cyrano de Bergerac”, p.102, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I want to be someone capable of seeing the unseen faces, of seeing those who do not seek fame or glory, who silently fulfil the role life has given them. I want to be able to do this because the most important things, those that shape our existence, are precisely the ones that never show their faces.

  Paulo Coelho

  Important, Roles, Shapes

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• The continuity of life is never broken; the river flows onward and is lost to our sight, but under its new horizon it carries the same waters which it gathered under ours, and its unseen valleys are made glad by the offerings which are borne down to them from the past,--flowers, perchance, the germs of which its own waves had planted on the banks of Time.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Flower, Past, Offering

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1845). “The Stranger in Lowell”, p.145

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• In Jones's experience, the decision to turn one's life around in a different direction rarely arrived with fireworks and marching bands. Often, the decision came with tears and regret. Then, almost impossibly, the power of forgiveness would fill an unseen void, allowing a new day's optimism and sense of purpose to take hold and point that life in a new direction.

  Andy Andrews

  Regret, Optimism, New Day

  Andy Andrews (2009). “The Noticer: Sometimes, All a Person Needs is a Little Perspective”, p.110, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• In the elder days of art Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part, For the Gods are everywhere

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Art, Care, Minutes

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1868). “Poems”, p.327

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• Haven't you ever known someone rejected by a lover, who, consumed by rage and jealousy, never lets go? They look on from a distance, unseen but boiling inside. The emotion never seems to tire, this hatred mixed with intense obsession, even with a kind of twisted love.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Love, Letting Go, Distance

  Scott Westerfeld (2006). “Peeps”, p.23, Penguin

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• Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know - even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction - than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

  Isaac Asimov

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

  "The New Hugo Winners". Book by Isaac Asimov et al., p. 215, 1989.

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• I channel the rote and the new and unseen. My head has always been the busiest of crossroads, a festival of happy and unhappy arrivals. In the hours before daybreak when I was a boy, god sent me words as visitors.

  Jim Shepard

  Boys, Unhappy, Festivals

  Jim Shepard (2008). “Like You'd Understand, Anyway: Stories”, p.130, Vintage

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• So I suppose I do not know how he really looked, and, in fact, I suppose I shall never know, now, for he was plainly an object created in the mode of fantasy. His image was already present somewhere in my head and I was seeking to discover it in actuality, looking at every face I met in case it was the right face - that is, the face which corresponded to my notion of the unseen face of the one I should love, a face created parthenogeneticallyby the rage to love which consumed me.

  Angela Carter

  Faces, Facts, Fantasy

  Angela Carter (1997). “Burning your boats: the collected short stories”, Penguin Group USA

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• A feverish, fearless writer, Justin Taylor delivers 'blessed pleasure' in translating the 'baffling Christ babble' in The Gospel of Anarchy, a novel whose shiftless characters, in search of completion and contentment, must wrestle with that prerequisite of faith: a willingness to believe in the unseen.

  Christine Schutt

  Believe, Blessed, Character

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• You know, there's nothing damnable about being a strong woman. The world needs strong women. There are a lot of strong women you do not see who are guiding, helping, mothering strong men. They want to remain unseen. It's kind of nice to be able to play a strong woman who is seen.

  Ginger Rogers

  Strong Women, Nice, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• All forms of birth--physical, intellectual, spiritual or emotional--bring one to the depths. The power to give birth originates in the creative life spirit birthing all, the seen and the unseen.

  Amy Wright

  Spiritual, Emotional, Giving

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• You know, then that the public Somebody you are when you 'have a name' is a fiction created with mirrors and that the only somebody worth being is the solitary and unseen you that existed from your first breath

  Tennessee Williams

  Mirrors, Names, Fiction

  Tennessee Williams (1990). “The Theatre of Tennessee Williams”, p.140, New Directions Publishing

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• The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject.

  Amiri Baraka

  Pain, Torture, Subjects

  Amiri Baraka (2016). “System of Dante's Hell”, p.158, Akashic Books

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• Nature: The unseen intelligence which loved us into being, and is disposing of us by the same token

  Elbert Hubbard

  Religion, Desire, Spirit

  Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1913). “The Philistine”

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• Much of your pain is self-chosen. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility: For his hand, though heavy and hard, is guided by the tender hand of the Unseen, And the cup he brings, though it burn your lips, has been fashioned of the clay which the Potter has moistened with His own sacred tears.

  Khalil Gibran

  Pain, Grief, Healing

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.84, Lulu.com

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• The insolence of time is like a blow in the face from an unseen enemy.

  Margaret Deland

  Time, Blow, Enemy

  Margaret Deland (1894). “Sidney”

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• We have conferred a mystic popularity upon officials whose only virtue is their timidity; while our scorn of rebels and reformers is so great that we have ceased to persecute them. The capitals and governments of the world are in the hands of caution; and change comes over them only in the night, unseen.

  Will Durant

  Night, Government, Hands

  Will Durant (1929). “The Mansions of Philosophy: A Survey of Human Life and Destiny”, Garden City, N.Y. : Garden City Publishing Company

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• A novel is not a summary of its plot but a collection of instances, of luminous specific details that take us in the direction of the unsaid and unseen.

  Charles Baxter

  Writing, Details, Plot

  Charles Baxter (2007). “The art of subtext: beyond plot”, Graywolf Pr

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• she was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Dream, Reality, Passing Away

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “The Complete Novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery - 20 Titles in One Volume: Including Anne of Green Gables Series, Emily Starr Trilogy, The Blue Castle, The Story Girl & Pat of Silver Bush Series: Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne of Ingleside, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, Emily of New Moon, The Golden Road, Magic for Marigold, A Tangled Web, Jane of Lantern Hill & many more”, p.467, e-artnow

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• I say, choose faith. Choose faith over doubt, choose faith over fear, choose faith over the unknown and the unseen, and choose faith over pessimism.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Doubt, Pessimism

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• Like a saint's vision of beatitude. Like the veil of things as they seem drawn back by an unseen hand. For a second you see—and seeing the secret, are the secret. For a second there is meaning! Then the hand lets the veil fall and you are alone, lost in the fog again, and you stumble on toward nowhere, for no good reason!

  Eugene O'Neill

  Fall, Fog, Hands

  Eugene O'Neill, Harold Bloom (2009). “Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night”, p.79, Infobase Publishing

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