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• All of creation is alive and conscious, and all of creation deserves our burning, churning, yearning love. All of it. Not just the people and creatures and things that we personally find beautiful and helpful and interesting. But everything. All of creation.

  Rob Brezsny

  Beautiful, Nature, People

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• Eleutheria, the fire is burning. Eleutheria, the tables are turning.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Fire, Tables

  Song: Eleutheria

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• I don't need your organization, I've moved your mountains and I've marked you cards, but Eden is burning. You better get ready for elimination or else your hearts must have the courage of the changing of the guard.

  Bob Dylan

  Religious, Heart, Eden

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• For people who are displaced, you can reconstruct the story of your life from the objects you have access to, but if you don't have the objects then there are holes in your life. This is why people in Bosnia - if anyone was running back into a burning house it was to salvage photos.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Running, People, House

  "Aleksandar Hemon: A personal history of Sarajevo". Interview with John Freeman, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2013.

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• Through the years as the fire starts to mellow, burning lines in the book of our lives. Though the binding cracks and the pages start to yellow, I'll be in love with you.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Romantic, Love You, Book

  Song: Longer, Album: Phoenix

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• When we kiss my heart's on fire, burning with a strange desire. And I know that every time I kiss you, that your heart's on fire, too.

  Elvis Presley

  Romantic, Heart, Kissing

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• After being in a gym, you're super hungry all the time because you're burning all these calories.

  Jessica Szohr

  Hungry, Calories, Gym

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For most persons, the mystical kundalini energy is easier to initially perceive, unless you're extremely sensitive. It's more of a rush, a flash. There's an electric quality to it, a burning heat.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Quality, Energy

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• A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. The desire for success implants 'success consciousness' which, in turn, creates a vigorous and ever-increasing 'habit of success'.

  Paul J. Meyer

  Desire, Action, Consciousness

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• I often find that people confuse inner peace with some sense of insensibility whenever something goes wrong. In such cases inner peace is a permit for destruction: The unyielding optimist will pretend that the forest is not burning either because he is too lazy or too afraid to go and put the fire out.

  Criss Jami

  Fear, Fire, People

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.57, Criss Jami

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• I was in the gym five days a week, two hours a day. At one point, I was going seven days straight. I had put on a lot of weight, and then I started losing it drastically, so I was worried. It turned out I was overworking myself. My trainer told me that I couldn't break a sweat, because I was burning more calories than I was putting on.

  Taylor Lautner

  Sweat, Two, Weight

  Interview with Michael Martin, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 6, 2009.

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• Isn’t desire always the same, whether the object is present or absent? Isn’t the object always absent? —This isn’t the same languor: there are two words: Pothos, desire for the absent being, and Himéros, the more burning desire for the present being.

  Roland Barthes

  Two, Desire, Absent

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• For me feminism is bra-burning lesbianism. It's very unglamorous.

  Geri Halliwell

  Feminism, Bras, Lesbianism

  "Girl power comes of age" by Joanna Moorhead, www.theguardian.com. October 24, 2007.

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• Imagine your shadow burning off the page / As the dear world and the dead word disengage

  Don Paterson

  Shadow, World, Pages

  Don Paterson, Charles Simic (2004). “New British poetry”, Graywolf Pr

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• A man who allows wild passion to arise within, himself burns his heart, then after burning adds the wind that thereto which ignites the fire again, or not, as the case may be.

  Jack Kerouac

  Passion, Heart, Men

  "Some of the Dharma". Book by Jack Kerouac, 1997.

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• People were hysterical about Communism the way people today are hysterical about flag burning. I'm really against these people who try to show that they're great patriots, because they're not thinking, they're just being hysterical.

  Julia Child

  Thinking, People, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Some of my old memories feel trapped in amber in my brain, lucid and burning, while others are like the wing beat of a hummingbird, an intangible, ephemeral blur.

  Mira Bartok

  Memories, Wings, Brain

  Mira Bartok (2011). “The Memory Palace”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• Fire, loveliest of the four elements of the world, and yet an element too in Hell. While it burned adoringly in the core of the Temple, it had also scorched the life from a city, this night, and spewed its venom over the land. How strange of God to speak from a burning bush, and of Man to make a symbol of Heaven into a symbol of Hell.

  Walter M. Miller, Jr.

  Night, Men, Fire

  Walter M. Miller Jr (2014). “A Canticle For Leibowitz”, p.156, Hachette UK

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• Naturally, you don't sit down in "white hot inspiration" and write with a burning flame in front of you. But since I knew I could never be happy being anything but a writer, and Mockingbird put itself together for me so accommodatingly, I kept at it because I knew it had to be my first novel, for better or for worse.

  Harper Lee

  Inspiration, Writing, Flames

  "Harper Lee, 'To Kill a Mockingbird' author, dead at 89" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. February 19, 2016.

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• Book burning is a charming old custom, hallowed by antiquity. It has been practiced for centuries by fascists, communists, atheists, school children, rival authors, and tired librarians. Like everything of importance since the invention of the cloak and the shroud, its origins are cloaked in mystery and shrouded in secrecy. Some scholars believe that the first instance of book burning occurred in the Middle Ages, when a monk was trying to illuminate a manuscript. All agree that book burning was almost non-existent during the period when books were made of stone.

  Richard Armour

  Atheist, Children, Believe

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• Don't be a writer, it's a terrible way to live your life, there's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it.

  Paul Auster

  Mean, Live Your Life, Solitude

  "Big Think Interview With Paul Auster". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 5, 2009.

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• One night, a group of moths gathered on a shelf watching a burning candle. Puzzled by the nature of the light, they sent one of their members to go and check on it. The scouting moth circled the candle several times and came back with a description: The light was bright. Then a second moth went to examine it. He, too, came back with an observation: The light was hot. Finally a third moth volunteered to go. When he approached the candle he didn't stop like his friends had done, but flew straight into the flame. He was consumed there and then, and only he understood the nature of the light.

  Elif Safak

  Night, Light, Flames

  "Black Milk: On the Conflicting Demands of Writing, Creativity, and Motherhood". Book by Elif Shafak, 2007.

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• The burning gaze of a young woman, such as hath tasted man, shall not escape me; for I have a spirit keen to mark these things.

  Aeschylus

  Women, Spirit, Mark

  Aeschylus (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)”, p.391, Delphi Classics

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• Each minute bursts in the burning room,The great globe reels in the solar fire,Spinning the trivial and unique away.(How all things flash! How all things flare!)What am I now that I was then?May memory restore again and againThe smallest color of the smallest day:Time is the school in which we learn,Time is the fire in which we burn.

  Delmore Schwartz

  Memories, School, Unique

  "For Rhoda" l. 40 (1938)

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• The brave man is intelligent; he faces danger because he understands it and is prepared to meet it. The drunkard who runs, in the delirium of intoxication, into a burning house is not brave; he is only stupid. But the clear-eyed hero who makes his way, with every sense alert and every nerve strung, into the hell of flames to rescue some little child, proves his courage.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Running, Courage, Children

  Henry Van Dyke (2007). “Counsels by the Way”, p.89, Wildside Press LLC

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