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• All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.

  Oscar Wilde

  Spring, Feelings, Natural

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “The Prose of Oscar Wilde”, p.186, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The genuine and simple religion of Jesus will one day be restored: such as it was preached and practiced by Himself.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Jesus, Simple, Religion

  Thomas Jefferson (2002). “Democracy”

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• Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Hurt, People, Envy

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• Tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Sleep, Tact, Ifs

  Charlotte Bronte (2010). “Shirley and The Professor”, p.684, Everyman's Library

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• The 21st chapter gives the novel the quality of genuine fiction, an art founded on the principle that human beings change. ----- "A Clockwork Orange Resucked" intro to first full American version 1986

  Anthony Burgess

  Art, Orange, Giving

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• Meeting a stranger can be totally fleeting and meaningless, for example, unless you enter the individual’s world by finding out at least one thing that is meaningful to his or her life and exchange at lest one genuine feeling. Tuning in to others is a circular flow: you send yourself out toward people; you receive them as they respond to you.

  Deepak Chopra

  Meaningful, Spiritual, People

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• I nodded with genuine synthetic sympathy.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Sympathy, Synthetic

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.164, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• It was such an unexpected and genuine smile that if I only had a soul I'm sure I would have felt quite guilty.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Soul, Unexpected, Guilty

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.143, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Any fool can hope when success lies plainly in view. It wants genuine strength to hope when matters are hopeless.

  Michael Flynn

  Lying, Views, Want

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• To say nothing of what you lose, lose, lose, are losing, man. You fool, you stupid fool ... You've even been insulated from the responsibility of genuine suffering ... Even the suffering you do endure is largely unnecessary. Actually spurious. It lacks the very basis you require of it for its tragic nature. You deceive yourself.

  Malcolm Lowry

  Stupid, Responsibility, Men

  Malcolm Lowry (2012). “Under the Volcano: A Novel”, p.317, Open Road Media

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• Mine was the unbearable jealousy a cultured pearl must feel toward a genuine one. Or can there be such a thing in this world as a man who is jealous of the woman who loves him, precisely because of her love?

  Yukio Mishima

  Jealous, Men, World

  Yukio Mishima (1958). “Confessions of a Mask”, p.208, New Directions Publishing

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• The world concerns me only in so far as I have a certain debt and duty to it, because I have lived in it for thirty years and owe to it to leave behind some souvenir in the shape of drawings and paintings – not done to please any particular movement, but within which a genuine human sentiment is expressed.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Years, Drawing, Done

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• And I told you: I think of a photograph you took of me, up in Montreal. You told me to jump in the air, so in the picture, my feet are off the ground. Later, I asked you why you wanted me to do that, and you told me it was the only way to get me to forget about the expression on my face. You were right. I am completely unposed, completely genuine. In my mind’s eye, I picture myself like that, reacting to you.

  David Levithan

  Eye, Thinking, Air

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• The generality of mankind is lazy. What distinguishes men of genuine achievement from the rest of us is not so much their intellectual powers and aptitudes as their curiosity, their energy, their fullest use of their potentialities. Nobody really knows how smart or talented he is until he finds the incentives to use himself to the fullest. God has given us more than we know what to do with.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Smart, Men, Lazy

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• Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness.

  Honore de Balzac

  Humility, Anti Bullying, Suffering

  Honore de Balzac, Pierre F. Limouzy (1999). “CliffsNotes on Balzac's Pere Goriot”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• People who’ve had any genuine spiritual experience always know that they don’t know. They are utterly humbled before mystery. They are in awe before the abyss of it all, in wonder at eternity and depth, and a Love, which is incomprehensible to the mind.

  Richard Rohr

  Spiritual, People, Mind

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• Wealth is certainly a most desirable thing, but poverty has its sunny side, and one of the sweet uses of adversity is the genuine satisfaction which comes from hearty work of head or hand, and to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Beautiful, Wise, Sweet

  Louisa May Alcott (2000). “The Portable Louisa May Alcott”, p.389, Penguin

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• Chandresh relishes reactions. Genuine reactions, not mere polite applause. He often values the reactions over the show itself. A show without an audience is nothing, after all. In the response of the audience, that is where the power of performance lives.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Reactions, Applause, Polite

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• I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awakens a feeling of genuine remorse in the most hardened heart; I am told this is due to fear.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Real, Heart, Punishment

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky”, p.13, Modern Library

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• For with eyes made clear by many tears, and a heart softened by the tenderest sorrow, she recognized the beauty of her sister's life—uneventful, unambitious, yet full of the genuine virtues which 'smell sweet, and blossom in the dust', the self-forgetfulness that makes the humblest on earth remembered soonest in heaven, the true success which is possible to all.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Sweet, Heart, Eye

  Louisa May Alcott (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)”, p.586, Delphi Classics

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• When you really have something to offer to the world, then you can become truly humble. A tree when it has no fruit to offer, remains erect. But when the tree is laden with fruit, it bends down. If you are all pride and ego, then nobody will be able to get anything worthwhile from you. When you have genuine humility, it is a sign that you have something to offer to mankind.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Humility, Humble, Pride

  Sri Chinmoy (1997). “The Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• There's genuine pain in Eric's eyes. And I feel a stab of guilt. But you can't stay with people because of guilt.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Pain, Eye, People

  Sophie Kinsella (2009). “Remember Me?”, p.425, Random House

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• Everyone understands the pain that accompanies death, but genuine pain doesn't live in the spirit, nor in the air, nor in our lives, nor on these terraces of billowing smoke. The genuine pain that keeps everything awake is a tiny, infinite burn on the innocent eyes of other systems.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Pain, Eye, Air

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• Genuine self-acceptance is not derived from the power of positive thinking, mind games or pop psychology. IT IS AN ACT OF FAITH in the God of grace.

  Brennan Manning

  Self Esteem, Positive Thinking, Acceptance

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.32, Multnomah

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• [Educated blacks] Society refuses to consider them genuine Negroes. The Negro is a savage, whereas the student is civilized. "You're us," and if anyone thinks you are a Negro he is mistaken, because you merely look like one.

  Frantz Fanon

  Thinking, Savages, Looks

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