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• The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Love, Two, Soul

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• I’ll put it out there: I am scarred by the nostalgic indicipherability of my own desires; I an engulfed by the intimidating unknown, pushed through darkness and dragged down by the irretrievable past sweetness of my memories.

  Anne Sexton

  Memories, Past, Darkness

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• Lying mouth to mouth, kiss to kiss in the pillow dark, loin to loin in unbelievable surrendering sweetness so distant from all our mental fearful abstractions it makes you wonder why men have termed God antisexual somehow (p. 148)

  Jack Kerouac

  Lying, Dark, Kissing

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• Breathing him in wasn't enough, I wanted to inhale him. The leather, the smoke, the sweetness.

  Alexandra Bracken

  Breathing, Enough, Leather

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• Many appear full of mildness and sweetness as long as everything goes their own way; but the moment any contradiction or adversity arises, they are in a flame, and begin to rage like a burning mountain. Such people as these are like red-hot coals hidden under ashes. This is not the mildness which Our Lord undertook to teach us in order to make us like unto Himself.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Anger, Adversity, Flames

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• To be forgiven is such sweetness that honey is tasteless in comparison with it. But yet there is one thing sweeter still, and that is to forgive. As it is more blessed to give than to receive, so to forgive rises a stage higher in experience than to be forgiven.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Forgiveness, Blessed, Giving

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 31: Sermons 1816-1876”, p.374, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• The dance grew into a colorful flower bouquet which caught and contained the glow of sun-happy summer days, the secret of star-studded nights, and the wistful sweetness of overcast and rainy hours.

  Mary Wigman

  Dance, Summer, Stars

  Mary Wigman (1966). “The language of dance”

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• Now the best thing is to put attention to your Spirit. If you start putting your attention to Spirit, the sweetness of the Spirit itself will make the whole thing very sweet and beautiful.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Beautiful, Wisdom

  "Lethargy Most Anti-God". Nirmala Srivastava's speech at Chelsham Road Ashram in London, UK, www.amruta.org. September 27, 1980.

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• For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every corner of nature; the difference is that instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

  Jonathan Swift

  Light, Two, Differences

  The Battle of the Books (1704) See Matthew Arnold 27

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• I think scent is sensual. I guess evoking a mood or a spirit is key, and I think with the women's fragrances we have evoked different types, moods or sensibilities of a woman - whether it's Daisy with the sweetness and the innocence or Lola which is more provocative, sexy and sultry.

  Marc Jacobs

  Sexy, Thinking, Keys

  "Marc Jacobs Reveals The Naked Truth". GO Interview, gq.co.za. September 7, 2015.

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• What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. This rule,equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Learning, Greatness, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2017). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.144, Broadview Press

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• I told him the truth, that I loved him and didn't regret anything about our lives together. But do we ever 'tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help me God' as my father used to say, to those we love? Or even to ourselves? Don't even the best and most fortunate of lives hint at other possibilities, at a different kind of sweetness and, yes, bitterness too? Isn't this why we can't help feeling cheated, even when we know we haven't been?

  Richard Russo

  Regret, Father, Feelings

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• And oh, god, how could so much regret and so much sweetness and so much sadness all be present in that single moment. I was already dead and missing my unlived life. I was already dead and Tobias was mourning. I tried to smile. For him.

  Katherine Applegate

  Regret, Sadness, Mourning

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• The cool peace and dewy sweetness of the night filled me with a mood of hope: not hope on any definite point, but a general sense of encouragement and heart-ease.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Encouragement, Heart, Night

  Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Villette”, p.109, Xist Publishing

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• At one time I say to myself: "Surely not! The little prince shuts his flower under her glass globe every night, and he watches over his sheep very carefully . . ." Then I am happy. And there is sweetness in the laughter of all the stars.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Stars, Laughter, Flower

  Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.111, eKitap Projesi

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• there isn't enough of anything as long as we live. But at intervals a sweetness appears and, given a chance prevails.

  Raymond Carver

  Long, Chance, Enough

  Raymond Carver (2015). “All of Us: The Collected Poems”, p.253, Vintage

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• You are the drop,and the ocean you are kindness,you are anger, you are sweetness,you are poison. Do not make me more disheartened. you are the chamber of the sun, you are the abode of venus, you are the garden of all hope. Oh, Beloved, let me enter.

  Rumi

  Kindness, Ocean, Garden

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• -she remembered them kindly, for there was a sweetness in boys that didn't last long, once they became men.

  Larry McMurtry

  Boys, Men, Long

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• I thought I would love you forever—and, a little, I may, in the way I still move toward a crate, knees bent, or reach for a man: as one might stretch for the three or four fruit that lie in the sun at the top of the tree; too ripe for any moment but this, they open their skin at first touch, yielding sweetness, sweetness and heat, and in me, each time since, the answering yes.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Lying, Moving, Love You

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• Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it?

  Stephen King

  Dream, Sweet, Brevity

  Stephen King (2011). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.841, Simon and Schuster

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• You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run.

  Saint Augustine

  Running, Fire, Going Away

  Saint Augustine, Henry Chadwick (2008). “The Confessions”, p.138, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Dada is not modern at all, it is rather a return to a quasi-Buddhist religion of indifference. Dada puts an artificial sweetness onto things, a snow of butterflies coming out of a conjurer's skull. Dada is stillness and does not understand the passions.

  Tristan Tzara

  Buddhist, Passion, Butterfly

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• Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.

  Alexander Pope

  Fall, Pride, Errors

  Alexander Pope (2013). “The Rape of the Lock In Plain and Simple English (Translated)”, p.41, BookCaps Study Guides

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• You knew the sweetness of now, now, TONIGHT! who cares for tomorrow, tomorrow is nothing, yesterday is over and done, tonight live, tonight!

  Ray Bradbury

  Yesterday, Who Cares, Tonight

  Ray Bradbury (2013). “A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• For still in mutual sufferance lies
  The secret of true living;
  Love scarce is love that never knows
  The sweetness of forgiving.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Forgiveness, Lying, Secret

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.331

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