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• Yeah, well, food's one of the five exceptions to Gamp's Law of Elemental Transfigurations," said Ron, to general astonishment.

  J. K. Rowling

  Law, Astonishment, Yeah

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• Some of our loves and attachments are elemental and beyond our choosing, and for that very reason they come spiced with pain and regret and need and hollowness and a feeling as close to anger as I will ever be able to manage.

  Colm Toibin

  Pain, Regret, Attachment

  "The Empty Family: Stories". Book by Colm Toibin, October 1, 2010.

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• I've crossed these sands many times," said one of the camel drivers one night. "But the desert is so huge, and the horizons so distant, that they make a person feel small, and as if he should remain silent." The boy understood intuitively what he meant, even without ever having set foot in the desert before. Whenever he saw the sea, or a fire, he fell silent, impressed by their elemental force.

  Paulo Coelho

  Boys, Night, Fire

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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• Despite all my public misconduct, in the past year, I had learned the Elemental spells, the Doppelschläferin, and the preparation and flying of a magic broom; I had survived two months as prisoner of war, saving the life of captain Johanne in the process; I had escaped the dungeons of Fortress Drachensbett, and after an arduous journey successfully reunited with my double, so preserving her, and all Montagne, from Prince Flonian's rapacity, I would somehow master the despicable art of being a princess.

  Catherine Gilbert Murdock

  Art, War, Princess

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• How happy is the little stone That rambles in the road alone, And doesn't care about careers, And exigencies never fears; Whose coat of elemental brown A passing universe put on; And independent as the sun, Associates or glows alone, Fulfilling absolute decree In casual simplicity.

  Emily Dickinson

  Independent, Careers, Simplicity

  Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.169, First Avenue Editions

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• Whenever he saw the sea, or a fire, he fell silent, impressed by their elemental force.

  Paulo Coelho

  Fire, Sea, Saws

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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• The world today is sick to its thin blood for lack of elemental things, for fire before the hands, for water welling from the earth, for air, for the dear earth itself underfoot. In my world of beach and june these elemental presences lived and had their being.

  Henry Beston

  Beach, Fire, June

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• Walter loves the sea, and I need it in some elemental way that I cannot even come close to verbalizing. I become dim and shriveled somehow at my very core if I am away from the sea too long. When I return to it I seem to fill up and overflow with it, soaking in the vast, sighing wetness of it like a parched vine in a long, soft spring rain.

  Anne Rivers Siddons

  Spring, Rain, Sea

  Anne Rivers Siddons (2007). “House Next Door”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

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• Breast-feeding does not belong in the realm of facts and hard numbers; it is much too intimate and elemental.

  Hanna Rosin

  Numbers, Doe, Facts

  "Is breast-feeding really best?" by Mike Celizic, www.today.com. March 16, 2009.

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• I understand human needs. I grew up where far too many people lived day to day without elemental needs like food and shelter.

  Naveen Jain

  People, Needs, Shelter

  "Tips for Entrepreneurial Philanthropy" by Naveen Jain, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 23, 2011.

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• Who dreamt and made incarnate gaps in Time & Space through images juxtaposed, and trapped the archangel of the soul between 2 visual images and joined the elemental verbs and set the noun and dash of consciousness together jumping with sensation of Pater Omnipotens Aeterna Deus to recreate the syntax and measure of poor human prose and stand before you speechless and intelligent and shaking with shame

  Allen Ginsberg

  Intelligent, Jumping, Space

  Allen Ginsberg, “Howl”

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• If you like I'll be furious flesh elemental, or- changing to tones that the sunset arouses- if you like- I'll be extraordinary gentle, not a man but - a cloud in trousers.

  Vladimir Mayakovsky

  Sunset, Men, Clouds

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky, “A Cloud In Trousers - Epilogue”

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• Its more than a simple belief that there is good and that it should fight the evil in the world. It's a personification of Light and Darkness at their most elemental level, as forces that are so absorbed with themselves that one cannot exist without the other though they constantly try to consume one another. One of the earliest repersentations of Light and Darkness was of Light being a massive black bull and Darkness being an enormous white bull.

  P. C. Cast

  Fighting, Simple, Light

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• Never yet could I find that a black had uttered a thought above the level of plain narration; never saw even an elemental trait of painting or sculpture.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Black, Sculpture, Levels

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• The world has been evolved, not created: it has arisen little by little from a small beginning, and has increased through the activity of the elemental forces embodied in itself, and so has rather grown than come into being at an almighty word.

  August Weismann

  Littles, World, Evolution

  August Weismann, Sir John Arthur Thomson, Margaret R. Thomson (1904). “The Evolution Theory”

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• Maybe I shouldn’t mouth off to the elemental I kinda hoped was my future mother-in-law.

  Kiersten White

  Mother, Law, Mouths

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• I prefer the pen. There is something elemental about the glide and flow of nib and ink on paper.

  James Robertson

  Ink, Paper, Flow

  James Robertson (2006). “The testament of Gideon Mack”

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• Darken your room, shut the door, empty your mind. Yet you are still in great company - the Numen and your Genius with all their media, and your host of elementals and ghosts of your dead loves — are there! They need no light by which to see, no words to speak, no motive to enact except through your own purely formed desire.

  Austin Osman Spare

  Light, Doors, Media

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• Walking, I can almost hear the redwoods beating. And the oceans are above me here, rolling clouds, heavy and dark. It is winter and there is smoke from the fires. It is a world of elemental attention, of all things working together, listening to what speaks in the blood. Whichever road I follow, I walk in the land of many gods, and they love and eat one another. Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. Be still, they say. Watch and listen. You are the result of the love of thousands.

  Linda Hogan

  Ocean, Dark, Winter

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• Loneliness doesn’t exist on any single plane of consciousness. It’s generally a low throb, barely audible, like the hum of a Mercedes engine in park, but every so often the demands of the highway call for a burst of acceleration, and the hum becomes a thunderous, elemental roar, and once again you’re reminded of what this baby’s carrying under the hood.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Baby, Loneliness, Demand

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• Our minds, as well as our bodies, have need of the out-of-doors. Our spirits, too, need simple things, elemental things, the sun and the wind and the rain, moonlight and starlight, sunrise and mist and mossy forest trails, the perfumes of dawn and the smell of fresh-turned earth and the ancient music of wind among the trees.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Nature, Rain, Simple

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• I think back to some of the pots we made when we first started our pottery, and they were pretty awful pots. We thought at the time they were good; they were the best we could make, but our thinking was so elemental that the pots had that quality also, and so they don't have a richness about them which I look for in my work today. Whether I achieve it all the time, that's another question, because I don't think a person can produce at top level 100 percent of the time.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Thinking, Quality, Looks

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Maybe innocence makes its way easiest through the elemental chaos of this world.

  Franz Kafka

  World, Way, Innocence

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• The truth is not always useful, not always good. It’s like putting your faith in water. Yes, we need the rain, but too much can sweep you away in a flood and drown you. Like all great natural, elemental forces, the truth needs to be channeled, managed, controlled and intelligently, morally allocated.

  Iain Banks

  Rain, Water, Needs

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• Dead isn’t angels or ghosts. It’s a physical state of breakdown, a change in all those carbon atoms that create the temporary house of a body so that they can return to their most elemental stage.

  Jodi Picoult

  Angel, House, Atoms

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.1073, Simon and Schuster

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