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• He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit.

  Victor Hugo

  Apples, Tree, Fruit

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.446, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Acceptable rules of conduct were suspended when it came to the spoon shortage. The deficit had gotten so bad that prices were all but unaffordable, and dynastic spoon succession had become a matter of considerable interest. Spoons were even postcode engraved and carried on one's person to eliminate theft, and good table manners, one of the eight pillars upon which the Collective was built, had been relaxed to allow tea to be stirred - shockingly - with the handle of a fork.

  Jasper Fforde

  Eight, Tea, Pillars

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• That is life. Just one long succession of misunderstandings and rash acts and what not. Absolutely.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Long, Just One, Misunderstanding

  P. G. Wodehouse (2011). “A Damsel in Distress”, p.196, The Floating Press

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• Before I met No I thought that violence meant shouting and hitting and war and blood. Now I know that there can also be violence in silence and that it’s sometimes invisible to the naked eye. There’s violence in the time that conceals wounds, the relentless succession of days, the impossibility of turning back the clock. Violence is what escapes us. It’s silent and hidden. Violence is what remains inexplicable, what stays forever opaque.

  Delphine de Vigan

  War, Eye, Blood

  Delphine de Vigan (2010). “No and Me”, p.156, A&C Black

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• A love affair is like a short story--it has a beginning, a middle, and an end. The beginning was easy, the middle might drag, invaded by commonplace, but the end, instead of being decisive and well knit with that element of revelatory surprise as a well-written story should be, it usually dissipated in a succession of messy and humiliating anticlimaxes.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Stories, Elements, Might

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• Magnus had been alive hundreds of years himself, and yet the simplest things could turn a day into a jewel, and a succession of days into a glittering chain that went on and on. Here was the simplest thing: a pretty girl liked him, and the day shone.

  Cassandra Clare

  Girl, Jewels, Years

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• One cannot walk down an avenue, converse with a friend, enter a building, browse beneath the sandstone arches of an old arcade without meeting an instrument of time. Time is visible in all places. Clock towers, wristwatches, church bells divide years into months, months into days, days into hours, hours into seconds, each increment of time marching after the other in perfect succession. And beyond any particular clock, a vast scaffold of time, stretching across the universe, lays down the law of time equally for all.

  Alan Lightman

  Time, Church Bells, Years

  Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.25, Vintage

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• There is a stream, a succession of states, or waves, or fields (or whatever you please to call them), of knowledge, of feeling, of desire, of deliberation, etc., that constantly pass and repass, and that constitute our inner life.

  William James

  Educational, Philosophy, Feelings

  William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.20, Nuvision Pubns

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• Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.

  Jean Rhys

  Age, Aging, Jerk

  Jean Rhys (1975). “My Day: Three Pieces”

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• Anyone who has owned many cats in long succession can define his or her life as a series of furry episodes.

  Roger Caras

  Cat, Long, Episodes

  Roger A. Caras (1987). “A celebration of cats”, Fireside

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• The beginning, middle, and end of the birth, growth, and perfection of whatever we behold is from contraries, by contraries, and to contraries; and whatever contrariety is, there is action and reaction, there is motion, diversity, multitude, and order, there are degrees, succession and vicissitude.

  Giordano Bruno

  Order, Opposites, Diversity

  Giordano Bruno (1962). “Cause, Principle, and Unity: Five Dialogues”

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• I held apostolic succession fully, and the channels of grace to be there only.

  John Nelson Darby

  Grace, Apostolic

  John Nelson Darby (1866). “Analysis of dr. Newman's Apologia pro vitâ suâ, by J.N.D.”, p.20

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• Palaeontology is the Aladdin's lamp of the most deserted and lifeless regions of the earth; it touches the rocks and there spring forth in orderly succession the monarchs of the past and the ancient river streams and savannahs wherein they flourished. The rocks usually hide their story in the most difficult and inaccessible places.

  Roy Chapman Andrews

  Spring, Science, Past

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• Were the succession of stars endless, then the background of the sky would present us an uniform luminosity, like that displayed by the Galaxy-since there could be absolutely no point, in all that background, at which would not exist a star. The only mode, therefore, in which, under such a state of affairs, we could comprehend the voids which our telescopes find in innumerable directions, would be by supposing the distance of the invisible background so immense that no ray from it has yet been able to reach us at all.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Stars, Distance, Science

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.1325, Delphi Classics

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• Life has changed into a timeless succession of shocks, interspaced with empty, paralysed intervals.

  Theodor Adorno

  Life, Empty, Timeless

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.54, Verso

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• Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of simultaneity and that of succession.

  Roman Jakobson

  Axes, Two

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• As the strata of the earth preserve in succession the living creatures of past epochs, so the shelves of libraries preserve in succession the errors of the past and their expositions, which like the former were very lively and made a great commotion in their own age but now stand petrified and stiff in a place where only the literary palaeontologist regards them.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Past, Errors, Age

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2004). “On the Suffering of the World”, p.129, Penguin UK

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• What goes on in this one little lifetime is not so important as you might like to think it is because you're in it. When you can see the larger picture, it's just a tiny breath in a succession of breaths.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Important, Goes On

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• God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings, and, with each, therefore, a new idea, new inventions, and new applications.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Morning, Cutting, Ideas

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4099, Delphi Classics

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• The important thing is to abide by the rule of threes. Either you see a woman three times in quick succession and then never again, or you maintain relations over the years but make sure that the rendezvous are at least three weeks apart.

  Milan Kundera

  Years, Important, Three

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• In my beginning is my end. In succession Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended, Are removed, destroyed, restored, or in their place Is an open field, or a factory, or a by-pass. Old stone to new building, old timber to new fires, Old fires to ashes, and ashes to the earth Which is already flesh, fur and faeces, Bone of man and beast, cornstalk and leaf.

  T. S. Eliot

  Fall, Men, Fire

  Four Quartets "East Coker" pt. 1 (1940)

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• My life will have been a succession of lives, as if I have had several lives, a multiplicity of stories and roles. I have not ceased to have changes of life.

  Bernard Stiegler

  Life Changing, Roles, Stories

  Bernard Stiegler, David Barison (2009). “Acting out”, Stanford Univ Pr

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• Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them.

  John Drinkwater

  Drama, Epic, Long

  John Drinkwater (1922). “The Lyric: An Essay”, p.25, Library of Alexandria

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• We had news this morning of another successful atomic bomb being dropped on Nagasaki. These two heavy blows have fallen in quick succession upon the Japanese and there will be quite a little space before we intend to drop another.

  Henry L. Stimson

  Morning, Successful, Blow

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• Apart from the hostile influence of man, the organic and the inorganic world are ... bound together by such mutual relations and adaptations s secure, if not the absolute permanence and equilibrium of both ... at least a very slow and gradual succession of changes in those conditions. But man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords.

  George Perkins Marsh

  Nature, Science, Men

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