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• It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that, whenever we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation—of loneliness, poverty, and misery, the end and extreme of things—the thought of God comes into one's mind.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  God, Loneliness, Mind

  Vincent van Gogh (1959). “Complete Letters: With Reproductions of All the Drawings in the Correspondence”

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• Before the mind snaps, or the heart breaks, it gather itself like a clock about to strike. It might even be said one pulls himself together to disintegrate.

  Peter De Vries

  Heart, Mind, Together

  Peter De Vries (1961). “The Blood of the Lamb”

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• Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Intellectual, Laziness, Strange

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.179, Penguin

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• If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask. If you want a different kind of love I'll wear a mask. If you want to strike me down in anger here I stand. If you want a partner in life take my hand. I'm your man.

  Leonard Cohen

  Men, Hands, Different

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• He was welcome everywhere he went, and was well-aware of his inability to tolerate solitude. He felt no inclination to be alone and avoided it as far as possible; he didn't really want to become any better acquainted with himself. He knew that if he wanted to show his talents to best advantage, he needed to strike sparks off other people to fan the flames of warmth and exuberance in his heart. On his own he was frosty, no use to himself at all, like a match left lying in its box.

  Stefan Zweig

  Lying, Heart, Flames

  Stefan Zweig (2008). “Burning Secret”, p.7, Pushkin Press

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• Is this the part where you tell me you're secretly in love with me? Vampire mojo strikes again.

  Cassandra Clare

  Vampire, Mojo, Fallen Angels

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.1387, Simon and Schuster

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• Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?

  Thomas Hardy

  Mind, May, Tess Of The D Urbervilles

  Tess of the D'Urbervilles ch. 12 (1891)

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• As to the adjective: when in doubt, strike it out.

  Mark Twain

  Writing, Doubt, Adjectives

  Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) ch. 11

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• I thought lightning wasn't supposed to strike in the same place twice....sure it does...but only if you're too dumb to move.

  Jodi Picoult

  Moving, Dumb, Lightning

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• Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves; just as in the experiment, we need oxygen and a candle to help. In this case, the oxygen, for example, would come from the breath of the person you love; the candle could be any kind of food, music, caress, word, or sound that engenders the explosion that lights one of the matches.

  Laura Esquivel

  Light, Oxygen, Sound

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• The drama bug strikes hardest with Jews, homosexuals and plump women who wear their hair in bangs. These are people who, for one reason or another, desperately crave attention

  David Sedaris

  Drama, Hair, People

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• I do what I've trained my whole life to do. I watch the ball. I keep my eye on the ball. I never stop watching. I watch it as it sails past me and lands in the catcher's mitt, a perfect and glorious strike three.

  Barry Lyga

  Eye, Past, Land

  Barry Lyga (2007). “Boy Toy”, p.372, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Don’t just stand there, let’s get to it, Strike a pose, there’s nothing to it...

  Madonna Ciccone

  Art, Media, Entertainment

  "Song: Vogue (I'm Breathless)". March 27, 1990.

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• I smiled,"Deoch, my heart is made of stronger stuff than glass. When she strikes she'll find it strong as iron-bound brass, or gold and adamant together mixed. Don't think I am unaware, some startled deer to stand transfixed by hunter's horns. It's she who should take care, for when she strikes, my heart will make a sound so beautiful and bright that it can't help but bring her back to me in winged light.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Beautiful, Strong, Heart

  Patrick Rothfuss (2010). “The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:”, p.367, Hachette UK

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• When you love someone, truly love them, you lay your heart open to them. You give them a part of yourself that you give to no one else, and you let them inside a part of you that only they can hurt-you literally hand them the razor with a map of where to cut deepest and most painfully on your heart and soul. And when they do strike, it’s crippling-like having your heart carved out.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hurt, Heart, Cutting

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• Your Majesty would have a perfect right to strike off his head," said Peridan. "Such an assault as he made puts him on a level with assassins." "It is very true," said Edmund. "But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did." And he looked very thoughtful.

  C. S. Lewis

  Thoughtful, Perfect, Majesty

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol V: The Horse and his Boy”, p.160, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one.

  Emily Bronte

  Half, Hours, Clock

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• Do you see, Arren, how an act is not, as young men think, like a rock that one picks up and throws, and it hits or misses, and that's the end of it. When that rock is lifted, the earth is lighter; the hand that bears it is heavier. When it is thrown, the circuits of the stars respond, and where it strikes or falls the universe is changed.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Stars, Fall, Thinking

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “The Farthest Shore”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

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• Imagine a man who stands before a mirror; a stone strikes it, and it falls to ruin all in an instant. And the man learns that he is himself, and not the mirrored man he had believed himself to be.

  Gene Wolfe

  Fall, Men, Mirrors

  Gene Wolfe (1997). “The Urth of the New Sun: The sequel to 'The Book of the New Sun'”, p.225, Macmillan

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• Your shadow stealthily leaves nothing of where you go, like a poisoned needle that sews together my footsteps. Your light pliantly strikes the water tower, like a lightning bolt that severs the source of my life. -Soifon

  Tite Kubo

  Light, Water, Shadow

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• The things that we preceive as beautiful may be different, but the actual characteristics we ascribe to beautiful objects are similar. Think about it. When something strikes us as beautiful, it displays more presence and sharpness of shape and vividness of color, doesn't it? It stands out. It shines. It seems almost iridescent compared to the dullness of other objects less attractive.

  James Redfield

  Beautiful, Thinking, Color

  James Redfield (2009). “Celestine Insights - Limited Edition of Celestine Prophecy and Tenth Insight”, p.31, Hachette UK

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• Doesn't reincarnation strike you as just another form of procrastination?

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Procrastination, Reincarnation, Form

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• [Thinking about his first day if he were the Fuhrer] "On that day, all female officers will be required to wear... tiny miniskirts!" [Strikes pose] Roy Mustang, The Flame Alchemist, Full metal Alchemist

  Hiromu Arakawa

  Thinking, Flames, Alchemist

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• When one woman strikes at the heart of another, she seldom misses, and the wound is invariably fatal.

  Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

  Women, Heart, Missing

  "Fictional character: Marquise de Merteuil". "Dangerous Liaisons", www.imdb.com. 1988.

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• Sisters annoy, interfere, criticize. Indulge in monumental sulks, in huffs, in snide remarks. Borrow. Break. Monopolize the bathroom. Are always underfoot. But if catastrophe should strike, sisters are there. Defending you against all comers.

  Pam Brown

  Sister, Sibling, Indulge In

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