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• Dear little Swallow,’ said the Prince, ‘you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Suffering, Littles

  Oscar Wilde (2008). “The Happy Prince and Other Tales: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.12, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Imagine the amazing good fortune of the generation that gets to see the end of the world. This is as marvelous as being there in the beginning.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Generations, World, Being There

  Jean Baudrillard, Emily Agar (1997). “Fragments: Cool Memories III, 1990-1995”, p.33, Verso

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• Over his own dark Cealdish beard. "Nothing like your marvelous facebear.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Dark, Beard

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear”, p.1081, Penguin

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• What a marvelous cooperative arrangement - plants and animals each inhaling each other's exhalations, a kind of planet-wide mutual mouth-to-stoma resuscitation, the entire elegant cycle powered by a star 150 million kilometers away.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Animal, Mouths

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.54, Ballantine Books

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• Marvelous wonders don't have to happen of a sudden, the way they do in the Arabian Nights. They can also take a long time, like crystals growing, or minds changing, or leaves turning. The trick is to keep an eye peeled, so they don't slip by unappreciated.

  Ken Kesey

  Eye, Night, Long

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• Time to plant tears, says the almanac. The grandmother sings to the marvelous stove and the child draws another inscrutable house.

  Elizabeth Bishop

  Children, Grandmother, House

  Elizabeth Bishop, “Sestina”

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• Her fluency was marvelous. She would say things at random, intricate, flamelike, or slide off into a parenthetical limbo peppered with fireworks-- admirable linguistic feats which a practiced writer might struggle for hours to achieve.

  Henry Miller

  Struggle, Might, Fluency

  Henry Miller (2007). “Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I”, p.17, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• What I want is to open up. I want to know what's inside me. I want everybody to open up. I'm like an imbecile with a can opener in his hand, wondering where to begin-- to open up the earth. I know that underneath the mess everything is marvelous. I'm sure of it.

  Henry Miller

  Hands, Earth, Want

  Henry Miller (2007). “Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I”, p.397, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Losing too is still ours; and even forgetting still has a shape in the kingdom of transformation. When something's let go of, it circles; and though we are rarely the center of the circle, it draws around us its unbroken, marvelous curve.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Letting Go, Curves, Circles

  Rainer Maria Rilke, “For Hans Carossa”

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• The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Journey, Reality

  "Old Man's Advice to Youth: 'Never Lose a Holy Curiosity'". Life magazine, p. 64, May 02, 1955.

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• She thought about how marvelous is would be to have a wife keeping the house in order, the meals on the table. At the same time it seemed ridiculously unfair that she could never have a wife. In fact, if she married, she would be expected to be the wife.

  Robin Cook

  Order, Wife, House

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• Youth, then, once ballyhooed as the epicenter of fun, hot dogs, hot sex, and marvelous dope-smoking good times, is now defined as follows: that period before death, characterized by smooth skin and ill-formed ideas.

  Marilyn Suzanne Miller

  Dog, Sex, Fun

  Marilyn Suzanne Miller (2007). “How to Be a Middle-Aged Babe”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• [In the Field Museum of Natural History] we could see very simple, primitive, hand-built pottery from Babylonia and ancient Egypt and so forth, Greece. We could see the most sophisticated things that came out of the Orient - Japan, Korea, and China - some few pieces of European porcelain, majolica [tin glazed earthenware], and that sort of thing. But they had a marvelous collection.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Simple, Museums, Egypt

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Hell is probably quite similar to most Paris bistros ... a bit overheated, somewhat too crowded, and a little too noisy for my tastes. The waiters will surely treat you rudely and the cashiers will always add a few extra francs to your bill but ... and this is the important part ... the food will be marvelous.

  Henry Miller

  Food, Paris, Cooking

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• The highest and best work of imagination is the marvelous transformation that it works in character. Imagine that you are one with the principal of good, and you will become truly good.

  Charles Fillmore

  Art, Character, Imagination

  Charles Fillmore (2017). “The complete works Charles Fillmore”, p.1391, Youcanprint

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• I don't think Reagan is primarily funny, and I don't think he's primarily marvelous; he's complicated.

  Eugene Jarecki

  Thinking, Complicated

  "Exclusive: A Conversation With Eugene Jarecki, Director of Reagan Doc". Interview with Tommy Christopher, www.mediaite.com. February 7, 2011.

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• The magician depends for the success of his art upon the credulity of the people. Whatever mystifies, excites curiosity; whatever in turn baffles this curiosity, works the marvelous.

  Alexander Herrmann

  Art, People, Curiosity

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• A man to whom a woman cannot look up, she cannot love. Yet, it is marvelous how a woman contrives to find something to look up to in a man.

  Arnold Haultain

  Men, Looks, Look Up

  Arnold Haultain (2015). “Hints for Lovers: "The Secret Nature and Psychology of Love"”, p.18, eKitap Projesi

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• [On John Tunnard:] One day a marvelous man in a highly elaborate tweed coat walked into the gallery. He looked a little like Groucho Marx. He was as animated as a jazz-band leader, which he turned out to be. He showed us his gouaches, which were as musical as Kandinsky's, as delicate as Klee's, and as gay as Miró's.

  Peggy Guggenheim

  Gay, Artist, Men

  Peggy Guggenheim (2016). “Out of This Century: The Informal Memoirs of Peggy Guggenheim”, p.164, Ravenio Books

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• Literature, like magic, has always been about the handling of secrets, about the pain, the destruction, and the marvelous liberation that can result when they are revealed. If a writer doesn't give away secrets, his own or those of the people he loves, if he doesn't court disapproval, reproach and general wrath, whether of friends, family or party apparatchiks... the result is pallid, inanimate, a lump of earth.

  Michael Chabon

  Pain, Party, Wrath

  "The Writing Life" by Michael Chabon, www.washingtonpost.com. July 16, 2000.

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• A children's writer should, ideally, be a dedicated semi-lunatic, a kind of poet with a marvelous idea, who, preferably, when not committing the marvellous idea to paper, does something else of a quite different kind, so as to acquire new and rich experience.

  Joan Aiken

  Children, Ideas, Doe

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• We live at a time that is notable for the polemical nature of discussions about identity, consciousness, rationality, agency, memory, and feeling. 'New atheists' and reductive materialists conduct gladiatorial debates against defenders of faith and enemies of reductionism. Lots of heat is produced, but, alas, little light is shed. How marvelous it is, then, to see this fine new book by Lenn E. Goodman and Gregory Caramenico. Here is a learned, illuminating, and decidedly non-polemical treatment of the classic questions of soul, mind, and brain-an exemplary work of scholarship.

  Robert P. George

  Atheist, Memories, Book

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• My sin in the past: forgiven.  My current struggles: covered.  My future failures: paid in full all by the marvelous, infinite, matchless grace found in the atoning work of the cross of Jesus Christ.

  Matt Chandler

  Jesus, Struggle, Past

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• I have marvelous dreams! I meet Buddha, I meet Jesus, I meet Mohammed. I constantly dream of space, stars and planets: we are the children of stardust.

  Brian Blessed

  Dream, Jesus, Stars

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• One can remain eternally young if, each day, one grows rich by marvelous moments.

  Romy Schneider

  Each Day, Moments, Rich

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

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