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• I never listen to music when I am writing. It would be impossible. I listen to Bach in the mornings, mostly choral music; also some Handel, mostly songs and arias; I like Schubert's and Beethoven's chamber music and Sibelius' symphonies; for opera, I listen to Mozart and in recent years Wagner.

  Colm Toibin

  Song, Morning, Writing

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• Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity.

  Lionel Blue

  People, Devil, Good Christian

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• In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.

  Gustav Mahler

  Space, Chamber Music, Audience

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• Dearest Jesus, holy child, make thee a bed, soft, undefiled, within my heart, that it may be a quiet chamber kept for thee.

  Martin Luther

  Inspirational, Jesus, Children

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• For us, genocide was the gas chamber - what happened in Germany. We were not able to realize that with the machete you can create a genocide.

  Boutros Boutros-Ghali

  Germany, Able, Realizing

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• The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord's mercy motivates us to do better.

  Pope Francis

  Mercy, Lord, Torture

  Pope Francis (2014). “My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change”, p.57, A&C Black

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• I took my mother-in-law to Madame Tussaud's Chamber of Horrors, and one of the attendants said: 'Keep her moving sir; we're stock-taking.'

  Les Dawson

  Mother, Moving, Law

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

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• I am, after all, a thriller writer. I routinely delve into the darkest chambers of the human heart. I've written about murder, kidnapping, depravity, horror, violence, and disfigurement.

  Harlan Coben

  Heart, Violence, Horror

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• There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Cells, Differences, Inches

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• For most people, chemotherapy is no longer the chamber of horrors we often conceive it to be. Yes, it is an ordeal for some people, but it wasn't for me, nor for most of the patients I got to know during my four months of periodic visits to the chemo suite.

  Geraldine Brooks

  People, Four, Months

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• Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.

  Neville Marriner

  Symphony, Piano, Opera

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• I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.

  Huey Newton

  Mean, Community, Patriotism

  Huey P. Newton (2009). “Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.158, Penguin

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• In the central place of every heart, there is a recording chamber; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, you are young.

  Samuel Ullman

  Cheer, Heart, Wrinkles

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• I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Lonely, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.88, Courier Corporation

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• It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandfathers or my grandmothers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany.

  Gene Simmons

  Mother, Book, Yesterday

  "Parker Spitzer" with Kathleen Parker and Eliot Spitzer, www.cnn.com. December 2, 2010.

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• Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!

  Alexander Pope

  Memories, Brain, Chains

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• The abortion cases produced an enormous amount of mail to my chambers, vastly more than to the other chambers, I am sure. I sometimes thought there wasn't a woman in the United States who didn't write me a letter on one side or the other of that issue.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Writing, Issues, Abortion

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• What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.

  Barack Obama

  Government, Two, Worry

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• Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

  Lillian Hellman

  Baby, Believe, Views

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

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• We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us... and we drown.

  T. S. Eliot

  Girl, Sea, Voice

  "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" l. 129 (1917)

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• One need not be a chamber to be haunted.

  Emily Dickinson

  Inspirational, Life, Halloween

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Poems by Emily Dickinson”, p.145, Library of Alexandria

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• There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make one almost enamoured of death, or one of those nights of horror and misshapen joy, when through the chambers of the brain sweep phantoms more terrible than reality itself, and instinct with that vivid life that lurks in all grotesques, and that lends to Gothic art its enduring vitality, this art being, one might fancy, especially the art of those whose minds have been troubled with the malady of reverie.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Night, Reality

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.92, Wordsworth Editions

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• Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

  Henry James

  Kindness, Air, Imperfection

  "The Art of Fiction" (1884)

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• Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Science, Men, Common Sense

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (1887). “The "Breakfast-table" Series: The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table; The Professor at the Breakfast- Table; The Poet at the Breakfast- Table”

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• Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs.

  Martin Heidegger

  Country, Agriculture, Essence

  "The Question Concerning Technology". Book by Martin Heidegger, 1954.

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