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• The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much of social life is exhausting; one is wearing a mask. I have shed my mask.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Life, Wearing A Mask, Social

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2002). “Wisdom from Gift from the Sea”, p.21, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Tears unnumbered ye shall shed.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Tears

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Silmarillion”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We should not shed tears That is a surrender of the body to the heart It is only proof That we are beings that do not know What to do with out hearts

  Tite Kubo

  Heart, Tears, Bleach

  "Bleach". Manga series by Tite Kubo, August 20, 2001 – August 22, 2016.

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• It exasperated her sometimes. The way men could be so sure of themselves. They put words together like sheds or shelves and you could stand on them they were so solid. And those feelings which overwhelmed you in the small hours turned to smoke.

  Mark Haddon

  Men, Feelings, Together

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• Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured from mine. May you never appeal to Heaven in prayers so hopeless and so agised as in that hour left my lips: for never may you, like me, dread to be the instrument of evil to what you wholly love.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Heartbreak, Prayer, Integrity

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.262, Penguin

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• To be gentle and kind, modest and truthful, to be full of faith and integrity, doing no wrong is of God; goodness sheds a halo of loveliness around every person who possesses it, making their countenances beam with light, and their society desirable because of its excellency. They are loved of God, of holy angels, and of all the good earth, while they are hated, envied, admired, and feared by the wicked.

  Brigham Young

  Integrity, Angel, Light

  Brigham Young (1867). “Journal of Discourses”, p.240

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• That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who found a magic cup and learned that if he wept into the cup, his tears turned into pearls. But even though he had always been poor, he was a happy man and rarely shed a tear. So he found ways to make himself sad so that his tears could make him rich. As the pearls piled up, so did his greed grow. The story ended with the man sitting on a mountain of pearls, knife in hand, weeping helplessly into the cup with his beloved wife's slain body in his arms.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Dark, Night, Men

  Khaled Hosseini (2004). “The Kite Runner”, p.35, Penguin

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• From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered- We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition; And gentlemen in England now-a-bed Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.

  William Shakespeare

  Brother, Thinking, Blood

  'Henry V' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 35

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• No matter what she did with her hair it took about three minutes for it to tangle itself up again, like a garden hosepipe in a shed [Which, no matter how carefully coiled, will always uncoil overnight and tie the lawnmower to the bicycles].

  Terry Pratchett

  Garden, Hair, Ties

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• We slept in the same bed. There was never a right time to say it. It was always unnecessary. The books in my father's shed were sighing. The sheets were rising and falling around me with Anna's breathing. I thought about waking her. but it was unnecessary. There would be other nights. And how can you say I love you to someone you love? I rolled onto my side and fell asleep next to her. Here is the point of everything I have been trying to tell you... It's always necessary. I love you.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Father, Book, Fall

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.314, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador attain liberty, and inspired our forefathers to shed their blood for the United States' independence, cannot die. Today, this spirit of solidarity must and will empower all of us to rebuild Haiti.

  Jean-Bertrand Aristide

  Independent, Ubuntu, Blood

  Interview with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. February 10, 2010.

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• You know when you first get rich, and you, like, just buy everything that you see? I did that for several years. And I have sheds full of things, maybe sometimes nine copies of the same thing.

  Roseanne Barr

  Years, Nine, Firsts

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• These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Years, Spinning Plates

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• Never before had I known the sudden quiver of understanding that travels from word to brain to heart, the way a new language can move, coil, swim into life under the eyes, the almost savage leap of comprehension, the instantaneous, joyful release of meaning, the way the words shed their printed bodies in a flash of heat and light.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Moving, Heart, Eye

  Elizabeth Kostova (2010). “The Historian”, p.147, Hachette UK

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• Does the open wound in another's breast soften the pain of the gaping wound in our own? Or does the blood which is welling from another man's side staunch that which is pouring from our own? Does the general anguish of our fellow creatures lessen our own private and particular anguish? No, no, each suffers on his own account, each struggles with his own grief, each sheds his own tears.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Pain, Grief, Struggle

  Alexandre Dumas, David Coward (2008). “The Man in the Iron Mask”, p.131, Oxford University Press

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• The Lesson You've Got to learn is the someday you'll someday stagger to, blinking in cold light, all tears shed, ready to poke your bovine head in the yoke they've shaped. Everyone learns this. Born, everyone breathes, pays tax, plants dead and hurts galore. There's grief enough for each. My mother learned by moving man to man, outlived them all. The parched earth's bare (once she leaves it) of any who watched the instants I trod it. Other than myself, of course. I've made a study of bearing and forbearance. Everyone does, it turns out, and note those faces passing by: Not one's a god.

  Mary Karr

  Mother, Hurt, Grief

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• But she wouldn't. I knew that already. My mother and I had an understanding: we worked together to be as much in control of our shared world as possible. I was suposed to be her other half, carrying my share of the weight. In the last few weeks, I'd tried to shed it, and doing so sent everything off kilter. So of course she would pull me tighter, keeping me in my place, because doing so meant she would always be sure, somehow, of her own.

  Sarah Dessen

  Mother, Understanding, Together

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• Being famous is just like being in high school. But, I'm not interested in being the cheerleader. I'm not interested in being Gwen Stefani. She's the cheerleader, and I'm out in the smoker shed.

  Courtney Love

  Cheerleading, School, Cheerleader

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

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• No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Philosophical, Blood, Kingdoms

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• Well, I'm a Catholic by birth and you can never shed it.

  Steven Morrissey

  Catholic, Birth, Wells

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• When I was doing 'Scarface,' I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time. I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.

  Al Pacino

  Home, Being In Love, Looks

  "Pacino's way" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. December 02, 2004.

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• You hear stories of intense actors who can't shed their character and who don't know who they are for a week or two after. I'm not that guy, man.

  Brad Pitt

  Character, Men, Two

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• I was really excited to get to shave my head - it's something I'd wanted to do for a while and now I had a good excuse. It was nice to shed that level of vanity.

  Natalie Portman

  Nice, Vanity, Levels

  "Natalie Portman turns heads in 'Vendetta'". www.today.com. February 14, 2006.

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• I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Son, Blood, Giving

  "The Devil and the Good Lord". Play by Jean-Paul Sartre, Act 3, sc. 5, 1951.

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• I had to wear a fat suit to play Mma Ramotswe in 'The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency.' She's described as being like a small elephant, but she loves her body and size. When we were filming in Africa, it was 110F. It was torturous. I drank a lot of water and ate cucumbers all the time, and underneath the fat suit I shed pounds - I couldn't help it.

  Jill Scott

  Agency, Play, Mma

  "What I see in the mirror" by Jill Scott, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2011.

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