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• Chantal's only ruse ... was her shattering simplicity. While a weak man or an imposter is always more complicated than the problem he is trying to solve, and thinking to encompass his adversary, merely keeps prowling interminably around himself, the heroic nature will throw itself into the heart of the danger to turn it to its own use, just as captured artillery is turned about and aimed at the backs of the fleeing enemy.

  Georges Bernanos

  Heart, Men, Thinking

  "Joy". Book by Georges Bernanos, 1929.

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• The Sugar Frosted Nutsack is dizzyingly brilliant. Mark Leyner is a hyperkinetic shaman, who flies the banner of rum and candy and writes like a one-eyed feral bandit. His new book is supremely original, delirious and synapse-shattering.

  John Cusack

  Book, Writing, Sugar

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• The child who is uprooted begins to recognize that what he builds within himself is what will endure, what will withstand shattering experiences.

  Anais Nin

  Children, Endure

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• Silence is the first thing within the power of the enslaved to shatter. From that shattering, everything else spills forth.

  Robin Morgan

  Silence, Firsts, Oppression

  Robin Morgan (2001). “The Demon Lover: The Roots of Terrorism”, Washington Square Press

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• Soccer has given me a place to express myself, fully and openly. To not be shy. To feel. To be crazy. To try things I might not try. To be honest in relationships. To make mistakes and realize that they're not life-shattering.

  Brandi Chastain

  Soccer, Mistake, Crazy

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• As iconic a band as Metallica has become, I think sometimes we forget just how raw they were in the beginning of their career, and to a 15-year-old kid like me, it was just shattering. I mean, it was beyond.

  Corey Taylor

  Mean, Kids, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• This is the first time in history that a war has involved the whole world, and also it may last many years more; this thought is soul-shattering for all of us as human beings. It is horrible to think that the crimes committed by this one man Hitler have these many years been destroying the lives of hundreds of thousands and millions, and one would despair entirely were it not certain that the majority, the innumerable majority which opposes him openly or secretly, will succeed in wiping out once and for all him and his.

  Stefan Zweig

  Life, War, Men

  Stefan Zweig, Friderike Maria Burger Winternitz Zweig, Henry G. Alsberg (1954). “Stefan and Friderike Zweig: their correspondence, 1912-1942”

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• I liken an affair to the shattering of a Waterford crystal vase. You can glue it back together, but it will never be the same again.

  John M. Gottman

  Together, Glue, Vases

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• I discovered for myself and by myself that there is no self to realize -- that's the realization I am talking about. It comes as a shattering blow. It hits you like a thunderbolt. You have invested everything in one basket, self-realization, and, in the end, suddenly you discover that there is no self to discover, no self to realize -- and you say to yourself "What the hell have I been doing all my life?!" That blasts you.

  U.G. Krishnamurti

  Blow, Self, Talking

  U. G. Krishnamurti, Rodney Arms (2002). “The Mystique of Enlightenment: The Radical Ideas of U. G. Krishnamurti”, p.2, Sentient Publications

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• The Task Force didn't produce any earth-shattering findings but it suggests that this matter is on the president's radar screen.

  Julianne Malveaux

  President, Tasks, Earth

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• Siry answered with one simple, shattering word. "Veelox.

  D. J. MacHale

  Simple

  D.J. MacHale (2012). “Pendragon Books 6-10: The Rivers of Zadaa; The Quillan Games; The Pilgrims of Rayne; Raven Rise; The Soldiers of Halla”, p.1149, Simon and Schuster

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• ...When I look back on my life's greatest traumas...I see that each one has something in common. No matter how life-shattering they felt at the time, there was an end to them.

  Anna Maxted

  Looks, Matter, Common

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• history only existed in the human mind, subject to endless revision. 'each man kills the thing he loves'-Oscar Wilde. You kill it before it kills you, but he was wrong. you killed it by accident. thinking you were doing something else. shattering, when all you wanted to do was keep it safe.

  Janet Fitch

  Men, Thinking, Mind

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• Talk—half-talk, phrases that had no need to be finished, abstractions, Chinese bells played on with cotton-tipped sticks, mock orange blossoms painted on porcelain. The muffled, close, half-talk of soft-fleshed women. The men she had embraced, and the women, all washing against the resonance of my memory. Sound within sound, scene within scene, woman within woman—like acid revealing an invisible script. One woman within another eternally, in a far-reaching procession, shattering my mind into fragments, into quarter tones which no orchestral baton can ever make whole again.

  Anais Nin

  Memories, Men, Orange

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• I feel as if things are falling apart within me, like so many glass partitions shattering. I walk from place to place in the grip of a fury, needing to act, yet can do nothing about it because any attempt seems doomed in advance. Failure, everywhere failure. Only suicide hovers above me, gleaming and inaccessible.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Suicide, Fall, Glasses

  Michel Houellebecq (2011). “Whatever”, p.131, Profile Books

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• She didn't even know how dangerous the truth could be, all the tiny, shattering seeds it carried.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Tiny, Dangerous, Know How

  Sue Monk Kidd (2006). “The Mermaid Chair”, p.160, Penguin

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• Sometimes the best of gods gift's arrive by the shattering of all the window panes.

  Paulo Coelho

  Window Panes, Sometimes, Window

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• I am talking about ultimate deceit. I am talking about unparalleled treachery. Bottomless lies. Depths that are seen that are previously unimaginable. Darkness and shattering despair that could break bones. Paranoia and horror that could stop the heart cold. All inflicted on one's self by one's self. The soul turns schizophrenic and goes hopelessly insane.

  Henry Rollins

  Lying, Heart, Self

  Henry Rollins (1992). “Art to choke hearts ; & Pissing in the gene pool: collected writing 1985-1987”, 2 13 61

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• What is stronger in us — passion or habit? Or are all the violent impulses, all the whirl of our desires and turbulent passions, only the consequence of our ardent age, and is it only through youth that they seem deep and shattering?

  Nikolai Gogol

  Passion, Age, Desire

  Nikolai Gogol (1985). “The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol”, p.20, University of Chicago Press

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• And like a soprano shattering glass, Juliet heard something snap deep inside. It was the sound of her heart breaking.

  Alexandra Potter

  Heart, Glasses, Sound

  Alexandra Potter (2004). “Calling Romeo”, p.307, Simon and Schuster

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• My God, that scene in Monster Inc. where the monsters realise that their entire world is founded on hurting children -look at that for a change! Two galumphing cartoon characters making a shattering realisation about their world and their role in sustaining it. A truly epic moment. It's stunning.

  Russell T Davies

  Hurt, Children, Character

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• Miss Grantham's sense of humour got the better of her at this point, and, tottering towards a chair, she sank into it, exclaiming in tragic accents:'Oh Heavens! I am betrayed!' His lordship blenched; both he and miss Laxton regarded her with guilty dismay. Miss Grantham buried her face in her handkerchief, and uttered one shattering word: 'Wretch!

  Georgette Heyer

  Missing, Heaven, Betrayed

  Georgette Heyer (2011). “Faro's Daughter”, p.202, Random House

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• Death never mattered at those times - in the early days I even used to pray for it: the shattering annihilation that would prevent for ever the getting up, the putting on of clothes, the wathchign her torch trail across to the opposite side of the common like the tail-light of a low car driving away.

  Graham Greene

  Light, Opposites, Clothes

  "Books that make you cry: share your weepiest moments" by Moira Redmond, www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2014.

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• Sometimes, certain of God's blessings arrive by shattering all the windows. (Brida)

  Paulo Coelho

  Blessing, Sometimes, Window

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 27, 2016

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• What is the quality of your intent?

  Thurgood Marshall

  Respect, Quality, Intention

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