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• Heart lesson #3: post-heartbreak survival. The heart is resilient, I mean literally. When a body is burned, the heart is the last organ to oxidize. While the rest of the body can catch flame like a polyester sheet on campfire, it takes hours to burn the heart to ash. My dear sister, a near-perfect organ! Solid, inflammable.

  Ibi Kaslik

  Heart, Mean, Flames

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• If they can’t survive alone for four days once a year, they deserve to die. (Acheron) That’s harsh, for you. (Dante) Harsh? Tell you what, you take my phone and skim through the three thousand phone calls I get every day and night and see how harsh I am. I truly hate modern technology and phones in particular. I haven’t had a full four hours of sleep in over fifty years. ‘Ash, I broke a toenail, help me. Ash, my head hurts, what should I do?’ (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hurt, Hate, Sleep

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• Vanish. Pass into nothingness: the Keats line that frightened her. Fade as the blue nights fade, go as the brightness goes. Go back into the blue. I myself placed her ashes in the wall. I myself saw the cathedral doors locked at six. I know what it is I am now experiencing. I know what the frailty is, I know what the fear is. The fear is not for what is lost. What is lost is already in the wall. What is lost is already behind the locked doors. The fear is for what is still to be lost. You may see nothing still to be lost. Yet there is no day in her life on which I do not see her.

  Joan Didion

  Wall, Night, Blue

  Joan Didion (2012). “Blue Nights (Enhanced Edition)”, p.134, Knopf

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• Gradually, the night stumbled as if stunned and wandering aimlessly into an overcast day -- limped through the wilderland of transition as though there were no knowing where the waste of darkness ended and the ashes of light began. The low clouds seemed full of grief -- tense and uneasy with accumulated woe -- and yet affectless, unable to rain, as if the air clenched itself too hard for tears. And through the dawn, Atiaran and Covenant moved heavily, unevenly, like pieces of a broken lament.

  Stephen R. Donaldson

  Grief, Rain, Night

  Stephen R. Donaldson (2012). “Lord Foul's Bane”, p.97, Del Rey

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• You lack the courage to be consumed in flames and to become ashes: so you will never become new, and never young again!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Courage, Flames, Rejuvenation

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• I've always thought what was I before I was this and then what will I be when I leave here. I really had a hard time always accepting that at some point I'm just going to turn to dust and ashes and never be again and that the journey would stop. I believe that we are souls, kind of like a version of what our movie presents, and we come here again and again until we arrive at our highest evolution, and what happens after that I don't know.

  Halle Berry

  Believe, Journey, Hard Times

  "Tom Hanks, Halle Berry Interview Cloud Atlas". "MoviesOnline" Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. October 18, 2017.

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• If but a few live coals are found in a mountain of ashes, no one should be disappointed. Genius is a rare quality in this world, and there is no reason why it should be more ubiquitous among Blacks than Whites.

  Wallace Thurman

  Quality, Mountain, Coal

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• No matter what spiritual path you've walked or what teachings you've followed, they must lead you back to no path and no teaching. A true teaching is like a blazing fire that consumes itself. The teaching must not only consume you, but consume itself as well. All must be burned to ash, and then the ash must be burned. Then, and only then, is the Ultimate realized.

  Adyashanti

  Spiritual, Teaching, Fire

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• Which of us that is thirty years old has not had its Pompeii? Deep under ashes lies the life of youth--the careless sport, the pleasure and the passion, the darling joy.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Sports, Lying, Passion

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• He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.

  Seneca the Younger

  Disappointment, Years, Office

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• I was reading an interview with Keith Richards in a magazine and in the interview Keith Richards intimated that kids should not do drugs. Keith Richards! Says that kids should not do drugs!
  Keith, we can't do any more drugs because you already f-king did them all, alright? There's none left! We have to wait 'til you die and smoke your ashes! Jesus Christ! Talk about the pot
  and the f-kin' kettle.

  Denis Leary

  Jesus, Kings, Reading

  "No Cure for Cancer". Documentary, Comedy, 1993.

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• Every man's life is a train made of straw which tries to move on a track made of fire! The very next stop is ashes and dust.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Moving, Men

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• The Life Cube Burn is cathartic, fun, exciting, and even reverent. It's a spectacular opportunity to put a sense of finality to the event. And when those thousands of written "wish-sticks" inserted into the Cube from all kinds of people combine with the art and shared messaging from the write boards in a blaze of flame and a column of smoke and ashes, it becomes a communal and very spiritual moment.

  Scott Cohen

  Spiritual, Art, Fun

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• History is a bucket of ashes.

  Samuel Butler

  Carpe Diem, Buckets, Carpe

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• A building get torched. All that is left is ashes. I used to think that it is true about everything - family, friends, feelings - but now I know that sometimes if love proves real, and two people are meant to be together, nothing can keep them apart.

  Sarah

  Real, Thinking, Two

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• One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. . . . Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.

  Annie Dillard

  Book, Writing, Play

  "The Writing Life". Book by Annie Dillard, archive.nytimes.com. 1989.

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• I would rather be ashes than dust.

  Jack London

  Dust

  Quoted in Bulletin (San Francisco), 2 Dec. 1916.

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• And while Protestant reformers broke with Rome on a variety of counts, their treatment of their fellow human beings was no less disgraceful. Public executions were more popular than ever: heretics were still reduced to ash, scholars were tortured and killed for impertinent displays of reason, and fornicators were murdered without a qualm.

  Sam Harris

  Rome, Religion, Execution

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.86, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Opinion is called the queen of the world; it is so, for when reason opposes it, it is condemned to death. It must rise twenty times from its ashes to gradually drive away the usurper.

  Voltaire

  Queens, World, Usurpers

  Voltaire (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary”, p.135

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• What mighty ills have not been done by woman!
  Who was't betray'd the Capitol? A woman;
  Who lost Mark Antony the world? A woman;
  Who was the cause of a long ten years' war,
  And laid at last old Troy is ashes? Woman;
  Destructive, damnable, deceitful woman!

  Thomas Otway

  War, Women, Years

  Thomas Otway, Thomas Thornton (1813). “The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway: In Three Volumes”, p.254

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• Sorrow, the heart must bear,
  Sits in the home of each, conspicuous there.
  Many a circumstance, at least,
  Touches the very breast.
  For those
  Whom any sent away,--he knows:
  And in the live man's stead,
  Armor and ashes reach
  The house of each.

  Robert Browning

  Home, Heart, Men

  Robert Browning (2008). “The Agamemnon of Aeschylus, La Saisiaz, Etc.”, p.15, Wildside Press LLC

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• We're all embers from the same fire. Our ember winks out, we're ashes, we go back to the fire.

  William Shatner

  Fire, Embers

  Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. April 18, 2012.

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• Divine ashes are better then earthly meale.

  George Herbert

  Divine

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.349

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• Dead news like dead love has no phoenix in its ashes.

  Enid Bagnold

  Phoenix, News, Publicity

  Enid Bagnold (2013). “National Velvet”, p.301, Courier Corporation

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• We cannot look at Syria, and the evil that has arisen from the ashes of indecision, and think this is not the lowest point in the world's inability to protect and defend the innocent.

  Angelina Jolie

  Thinking, Evil, Inability

  "Angelina Jolie criticizes UN Security Council on Syria refugee crisis", www.foxnews.com. April 24, 2015.

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