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• For some of us, good books and beautiful writing are our ultimate solace, even more comforting than exquisite food.

  Anne Lamott

  Beautiful, Book, Writing

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.108, Anchor

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• The Creation is quite like a spacious and splendid house, provided and filled with the most exquisite, and at the same time, the most abundant furnishings. Everything in it tells of God.

  John Calvin

  House, Creation, Splendid

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• I love intimate details like lingerie, something like a gorgeous silk stocking or exquisite slipper.

  Austin Scarlett

  Details, Slippers, Lingerie

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The Academy for Guided Imagery has created and finely honed an exquisite training program. Years of development and feedback has resulted in a creative program with great integrity and clinical relevance.

  Jeanne Achterberg

  Integrity, Years, Creative

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• I see that you believe in love such as the poets and romancers have represented... The poets represent love as the sculptors design beauty, as the musicians create melody; that is to say, endowed with an exquisite nervous organization, they gather up with discerning ardor the purest elements of life, the most beautiful lines of matter, and the most harmonious voices of nature.... To try to find in real life such love as this, eternal and absolute, is the same thing as to seek on the public squares such a woman as Venus or to expect nightingales to sing the symphonies of Beethoven.

  Alfred de Musset

  Love, Beautiful, Real

  Alfred de Musset (2012). “The Confession of a Child of the Century”, p.46, tredition

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• What appears in the pictures was the subject's decision, not mine. I took what they presented - delicate moments - unadorned and unglamorous, yet tender and exquisite.

  Ray Metzker

  Decision, Moments, Delicate

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• My investigation of movement has led me to choices which vary from traditional norms. My dancers and I see the rehearsal as a laboratory for testing scientific principles on the body. We invent action ideas which we think are archetypal, noticeable, understandable. The outcome is a mixture of slam dancing, exquisite and amazing human flight and a wild action sport which captures kids, older people and the general public’s hearts and minds and bodies.

  Elizabeth Streb

  Sports, Kids, Heart

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• The exquisite truth is to believe in something that maybe you know is a fiction, but you believe in it willingly.

  Roberto Benigni

  Believe, Fiction, Truth Is

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• The intellectual quest is exquisite like pearls and coral, But it is not the same as the spiritual quest. The spiritual quest is on another level altogether, Spiritual wine has a subtler taste. The intellect and the senses investigate cause and effect. The spiritual seeker surrenders to the wonder.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Wine, Intellectual

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.117, Lulu.com

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• Who has reached the extreme limits of scale with the same infallible precision, equally guarded against the false refinement of artificial elegance and the roughness of spurious force? Who has better known how to breathe anguish and dread into the purest and most exquisite forms?

  Charles Gounod

  Limits, Breathe, Elegance

  Marie Anne de Bovet, Charles Gounod (1891). “Charles Gounod: His Life and His Works”

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• Frankie Randall is a consummate performer. He is an exquisite jazz pianist and wonderful singer. I had the great pleasure to work with him on the Dean Martin Show and I'm very proud to call him a friend!

  Lainie Kazan

  Proud, Singers, Jazz

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• Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness.

  Thomas Huxley

  Math, Stuff, Degrees

  Thomas Henry Huxley, Henrietta A. Huxley (1908). “Aphorisms and reflections”

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• I'm a big fan of the Russians: Isaac Babel is just an exquisite line-to-line stylist.

  George Saunders

  Fans, Stylist, Lines

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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• The work of John Lennon was marked by its exquisite beauty and by its brutal honesty.

  Kevin Spacey

  Honesty, Lennon, Brutal

  "Come Together: A Night for John Lennon's Words and Music". Documentary, Music, October 02, 2001.

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• We have a pharmacy inside us that is absolutely exquisite. It makes the right medicine, for the precise time, for the right target organ—with no side effects.

  Deepak Chopra

  Philosophy, Medicine, Soma

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• Obama's Nobel Peace Prize is an exquisite act of condescension from Norwegians, a dog biscuit and a pat on the head to the American hyperpower for agreeing to spay itself into a hyperpoodle.

  Mark Steyn

  Dog, Biscuits, Nobel Peace Prize

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• An Englishman will take you into a large room, beautifully proportioned, and will point out to you that it is white- all over white- and somebody will say what exquisite taste. You know in your own mind, in your own soul, that it is not taste at all˘that is the want of taste˘that is mere evasion. English music is white and evades everything.

  Edward Elgar

  White, Soul, Mind

  Edward Elgar, Percy Marshall Young (1968). “A future for English music, and other lectures”

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• Learning is nothing without cultivated manners, but when the two are combined in a woman, you have one of the most exquisite products of civilization.

  Andre Maurois

  Civilization, Two, Culture

  ANDRE MAUROIS (1939). “ARIEL THE LIFE OF SHELLEY”

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• I have experienced some amazing food! Yet when I think about the most luxurious and exquisite meals I have had, visions of simple food made from a few natural ingredients are what most excite me.

  Mark Hyman, M.D.

  Simple, Thinking, Vision

  "Finger Lickin’ Good" by Mark Hyman, M.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2012.

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• Who originated that most exquisite of inquisitions, the condolence system?

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Condolences, Inquisition

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward (1878). “The Gates Ajar”

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• I tried to write worse but it was no good; my generalizations came out as before, each more exquisite than the last. I grew discouraged.

  Peter De Vries

  Writing, Lasts, Discouraged

  Peter De Vries (2014). “Comfort Me with Apples: A Novel”, p.24, Open Road Media

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• Everybody tells me that they would love to knit, but they don't have time. I look at people's lives and I can see opportunity and time for knitting all over the place. The time spent riding the bus each day? That's a pair of socks over a month. Waiting in line? Mittens. Watching TV? Buckets of wasted time that could be an exquisite lace shawl.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Opportunity, Knitting, Waiting In Line

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• Sometimes the unexpected does happen. Once, this exquisite woman fell for me. After we made love, she gave me a check for a hundred dollars. I said, "Honey, I don't get paid for sex." She said, "This is hush money."

  Ronnie Shakes

  Sex, Doe, Dollars

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• Apart from the pleasure of looking at her and listening to her-of enjoying in her what others less discriminatingly but as liberally appreciated-he had the sense, between himself and her, of a kind of free-masonry of precocious tolerance and irony. They had both, in early youth, taken the measure of the world they happened to live in: they knew just what it was worth to them and for what reasons, and the community of these reasons lent to their intimacy its last exquisite touch.

  Edith Wharton

  Taken, Community, Tolerance

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2130, Delphi Classics

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• The mask means to me: freshness of color, sumptuous decoration, wild unexpected gestures, very shrill expressions, exquisite turbulence.

  James Ensor

  Mean, Expression, Color

  Anna Swinbourne, James Ensor, Susan Marie Canning, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (2009). “James Ensor”, p.22, The Museum of Modern Art

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