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• It is only necessary to behold the least fact or phenomenon, however familiar, from a point a hair's breadth aside from our habitual path or routine, to be overcome, enchanted by its beauty and significance ... To perceive freshly, with fresh senses is to be inspired.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beauty, Hair, Vision

  Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861”, p.349, New York Review of Books

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• To estimate the value of Newton's discoveries, or the delight communicated by Shakespeare and Milton, by the price at which their works have sold, would be but a poor measure of the degree in which they have elevated and enchanted their country; nor would it be less grovelling and incongruous to estimate the benefit which the country has derived from the Revolution of 1688, by the pay of the soldiers, and all other payments concerned in effecting it.

  Thomas Malthus

  Country, Discovery, Soldier

  Thomas Robert Malthus (1836). “Principles of political economy considered with a view to their practical application”, p.49

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• Certainly it is no shame to a man that he should be as nice about his country as his sweetheart, yet it would not be wise to hold everyone an enemy who could not see her with our own enchanted eyes.

  James Russell Lowell

  Wise, Country, Peace

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• The spirit of sarcasm lives and thrives in the midst of universal wreck; its balls are enchanted and itself invulnerable, and it braves retaliations and reprisals because itself is a mere flash, a bodiless and magical nothing.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Sarcasm, Brave, Balls

  Entry for February 16, 1868, "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel", Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

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• Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets, and I was him too, looking up and wondering. I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Life, Cities, Yellow

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.29, Atlântico Press

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• There is a current mythology in our culture that anytime we meet someone and have that "enchanted evening" experience, that experience of looking into the eyes of the other and falling hopelessly in love - that this is nothing more than a delusion; a mutual projection, a fantasy that will only last until reality sets in.

  Marianne Williamson

  Fall, Eye, Reality

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Houdini, the magician who debunked magic, could not bear to see the great rationalist [Arthur Conan] Doyle enchanted by ghosts and frauds. And so he did what any friend would: He set out to prove spiritualism false and rob his friend Doyle of the only comforting fiction that was keeping him sane. It was the least he could do.

  John Hodgman

  Comforting, Magic, Fiction

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• It is in virtue of his own desires and curiosities that any man continues to exist with even patience, that he is charmed by the look of things and people, and that he wakens every morning with a renewed appetite for work and pleasure. Desire and curiosity are the two eyes through which he sees the world in the most enchanted colours...and the man may squander his estate and come to beggary, but if he keeps these two amulets he is still rich in the possibilities of pleasure.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Happiness, Morning, Eye

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1926). “Virginibus Puerisque ; And, Across the Plains”

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• A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.

  Astrid Lindgren

  Children, Book, Healing

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• No," Wednesday agreed. "You have tortured with silence. You let her grieve for a soul she did not lose, mourn a heart that should not have broken, and berate herself for betraying the man she loves...with the man she loves. It can't be 'true' love without the truth, Rumbold.

  Alethea Kontis

  Broken Heart, Men, Grieving

  Alethea Kontis (2012). “Enchanted”, p.244, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My dear October, we are bound by an enchanted rose made from the hair of a Duchess, and my blood is covering your hand. You can learn anything you wish to know about me merely by licking you fingers." Tybalt laughed a little. "Yes, you may ask me a question.

  Mira Grant

  Hair, Blood, Hands

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• But I welcome the darkness where the two eyes of that soft panther glow. The darkness is my cultural broth. The enchanted darkness. I go on speaking to you, risking disconnection: I’m subterraneously unattainable because of what I know.

  Clarice Lispector

  Eye, Two, Darkness

  Clarice Lispector (1989). “Agua Viva”, p.20, U of Minnesota Press

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• There is no insurmountable solitude. All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are. And we must pass through solitude and difficulty, isolation and silence in order to reach forth to the enchanted place where we can dance our clumsy dance and sing our sorrowful song - but in this dance or in this song there are fulfilled the most ancient rites of our conscience in the awareness of being human and of believing in a common destiny.

  Pablo Neruda

  Song, Believe, Destiny

  "Towards the Splendid City". Pablo Neruda's Nobel lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 13, 1971.

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• First time's a fluke; second time's a coincidence," said Velius. "Third time's tradition," finished Erik.

  Alethea Kontis

  Firsts, Flukes, Coincidence

  Alethea Kontis (2012). “Enchanted”, p.240, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It makes me happier, more secure, to think that I do not have to plan and manage everything for myself, that I am only a sword made sharp to smite the unclean forces, an enchanted sword to cleave and disperse them. Grant, O Lord, that I may not break as I strike! Let me not fall from Thy hand!

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Fall, Thinking, Hands

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• We are all fools blessed with the knowledge that certain events will come to pass no matter what path we take to get there. The wise ones follow their angels while they may.

  Alethea Kontis

  Wise, Blessed, Angel

  Alethea Kontis (2012). “Enchanted”, p.243, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Far over the Misty Mountains cold, To dungeons deep and caverns old, We must away, ere break of day, To seek our pale enchanted gold. The dwarves of yore made mighty spells, While hammers fell like ringing bells, In places deep, where dark things sleep, In hollow halls beneath the fells. The pines were roaring on the heights, The wind was moaning in the night, The fire was red, it flaming spread, The trees like torches blazed with light.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Sleep, Dark, Night

  J. R. R. Tolkien, “Over The Misty Mountains Cold”

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• If you want to talk about it, I got the time When you're looking so enchanted, you cover my mind If you think I'll wait forever, maybe you're right There's no such thing as now or never, there's only twilight

  Ric Ocasek

  Time, Twilight, Thinking

  Song: Something To Grab For

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• Was it the same light that enchanted the first photographers? It is the same, and it is still brand new - it is something that never wears out.

  Edouard Boubat

  Light, Firsts, Photographer

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• The trend lines in research and innovation look good for places such as India and China and less good for America as we go forward. So even if you're not enchanted by the prospect of cosmic discovery, the prospect of dying poor may be what it takes to understand the role of this adventure in the future of the natural world in which we live.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Adventure, America, Discovery

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Light-enchanted sunflower, thou
  Who gazest ever true and tender
  On the sun's revolving splendour.

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  Light, Sunflower, Splendour

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• You meet someone and it’s so much more than meeting them. It’s so much bigger and it’s like you’re enchanted by them.

  Taylor Swift

  Like You, Bigger, Meetings

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• From a very selfish point of view, I'm enchanted by the idea that a politician can come along and speak simply and clearly and truthfully to an electorate as though they are grown-ups and to feel the electorate respond to that.

  John Hodgman

  Selfish, Views, Ideas

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 21, 2008.

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• It's appropriate to have magic in a love story, because magic is a sort of metaphor for what love feels like? When we fall in love, the world feels magical to us. It becomes an enchanted place.

  Theodora Goss

  Falling In Love, Magic, Stories

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• I can watch elephants (and elephants alone) for hours at a time, for sooner or later the elephant will do something very strange... There is mystery behind that masked gray visage, and ancient life force, delicate and mighty, awesome and enchanted, commanding the silence ordinarily reserved for mountain peaks, great fires, and the sea.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Inspirational, Motivational, Animal

  Peter Matthiessen (1992). “African Silences”, Vintage

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