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• What saved me then? Nothing but pregnancy. And each time after I had given birth to my work my life hung suspended by a thin thread.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pregnancy, Creativity, Birth

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• If one doubts whether Grecian valor and patriotism are not a fiction of the poets, he may go to Athens and see still upon the walls of the temple of Minerva the circular marks made by the shields taken from the enemy in the Persian war, which were suspended there. We have not far to seek for living and unquestionable evidence. The very dust takes shape and confirms some story which we had read.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wall, War, Taken

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.178, Xist Publishing

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• Genius resembles a bell; in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful toneis silenced.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Freedom, Air, Order

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• Man's destiny was no longer determined from 'above' by a super-human wisdom and will, but from 'below' by the sub-human agencies of glands, genes, atoms, or waves of probability. ...they could determine his fate, but could provide him with no moral guidance, no values and meaning. A puppet of the Gods is a tragic figure, a puppet suspended on his chromosomes is merely grotesque.

  Arthur Koestler

  Fate, Destiny, Men

  "The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe". Book by Arthur Koestler, 1959.

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• [The essences of things] are suspended on the invisible dimension whose vibrance has been denied the human eye at all times save in the intuition of ecstasy.

  Hart Crane

  Eye, Essence, Intuition

  Hart Crane (1965). “Letters, 1916-1932”

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• I owe a lot to this club and the supporters who were always there for me. They supported me even when I was suspended. 
  (on his former club CSKA Sofia)

  Hristo Stoichkov

  Clubs, Bulgaria, Always There For Me

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• I'm not very good in a classroom sort of setting. I never was. I was kind of a clown in high school - got suspended a lot.

  Bobby Cannavale

  School, Kind, Classroom

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• Ash on an old man's sleeve / Is all the ash the burnt roses leave, / Dust in the air suspended / Marks the place where a story ended.

  T. S. Eliot

  Men, Air, Dust

  'Four Quartets' 'Little Gidding' (1942) pt. 2

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• I am the beast with a contorted grin, contracting down to illusion and dilating toward infinity, both growing and dying, delightfully suspended between hope for nothing and despair of everything, brought up among perfumes and poisons, consumed with love and hatred, killed by lights and shadows. My symbol is death of light and the flame of death. Sparks die in me only to be reborn as thunder and lightning. Darkness itself glows in me.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Light, Flames, Hatred

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• The great majority of Americans are suspended between these opposing attitudes. They are uneasy with injustice but unwilling yet to pay a significant price to eradicate it.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Attitude, Majority, Pay

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• Liberals are people who think that being tough on crime means longer suspended sentences.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Mean, Thinking

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• The only and absolute perfect union of two is when a baby hangs suspended in its mother's womb, like a tiny madman in a padded cell, attached to her, feeling her blood and hormones, and moods play through its body, feeling her feelings.

  Diane Ackerman

  Mother, Baby, Cells

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses”, p.98, Vintage

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• It seems wrong and unfair that Christmas, with its stressful and unmanageable financial and emotional challenges, should first be forced upon one wholly against one's will, then rudely snatched away just when one is starting to get into it. Was really beginning to enjoy the feeling that normal service was suspended and it was OK to lie in bed as long as you want, put anything you fancy into your mouth, and drink alcohol whenever it should chance to pass your way, even in the mornings. Now suddenly we are all supposed to snap into self-discipline like lean teenage greyhounds.

  Helen Fielding

  Morning, Teenage, Lying

  Helen Fielding (2016). “Bridget Jones's Diary: Picador Classic”, p.19, Pan Macmillan

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• In the presence of real tragedy you feel neither pain nor joy nor hatred, only a sense of enormous space and time suspended, the great doors open to black eternity, the rising across the terrible field of that last enormous, unanswerable question.

  Mervyn Peake

  Pain, Real, Doors

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• Poetry operates by raising our curiosity, engaging the mind by degrees to take an interest in the event, keeping that event suspended, and surprising at last with an unexpected catastrophe.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Poetry, Curiosity, Mind

  Sir Joshua Reynolds (1842). “The Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds”, p.142

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• Our faith is an astounding thing-astounding that I should believe him to be the Son of God who is suspended on the cross, whom I have never seen, with whom I have never become acquainted.

  Martin Luther

  Believe, Son, Christianity

  Martin Luther (1959). “What Luther says: an anthology”, Concordia

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• Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation.

  Anne Lamott

  Thinking, Animation, Breaths

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.29, Anchor

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• Poetry operates by raising our curiosity, engaging the mind by degrees to take an interest in the event, keeping that event suspended, and surprising at last with an unexpected catastrophe. The painter's art is more confined, and has nothing that corresponds with, or perhaps is equivalent to, this power and advantage of leading the mind on, till attention is totally engaged. What is done by Painting, must be done at one blow; curiosity has received at once all the satisfaction it can ever have.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Art, Blow, Curiosity

  Sir Joshua Reynolds (1842). “The Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds”, p.142

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• Whether it's that moment in acting when everything is suspended and you're not yourself, or breaking through the veil of a very long run or swim, or hearing my daughter laugh they are all pathways to what I think God must be.

  Jennifer Beals

  Daughter, Running, Thinking

  More Magazine Interview, December 2010.

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• Of him that hopes to be forgiven it is indispensably required that he forgive. It is, therefore, superfluous to urge any other motive. On this great duty eternity is suspended, and to him that refuses to practise it, the throne of mercy is inaccessible, and the Saviour of the world has been born in vain.

  Samuel Johnson

  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Thrones

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc”, p.385

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• The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.

  George Santayana

  Education, Judgment, Aim

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• But how shall we excuse the supine inattention of the Pagan and philosophic world to those evidences which were presented by the hand of Omnipotence, not to their reason, but to their senses? During the age of Christ, of his apostles, and their first disciples, the doctrine which they preached was confirmed by innumerable prodigies. The lame walked, the blind saw, the sick were healed, the dead were raised, daemons were expelled, and the laws of Nature were frequently suspended for the benefit of the church.

  Edward Gibbon

  Hands, Law, Omnipotence

  Edward Gibbon (1854). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.84

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• We all romp about, grieving, wondering, but with rare exception we mostly remain suspended in the Rhetorical Colloidal Forever that agglutinates between Might and Do.

  Tony Kushner

  Grieving, Forever, Might

  Tony Kushner (2005). “Homebody/Kabul: Final Revised Version”, p.39, Theatre Communications Group

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• I believe all sin, love, glory are this: when you slide down the knotted sheets, escaping from Gestapo headquarters, and she hugs you, there, suspended, and she whispers that she's always dreamed of you. The rest is just sex, copulation, the perpetuation of the vile species.

  Umberto Eco

  Sex, Believe, Escaping

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• I don't know. I always sort of liked playing [Georgia] that second game because you could always count on them having two or three key players suspended.

  Steve Spurrier

  Player, Two, Keys

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