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• And he made love to her, offering his body in both tenderness and anger, unsure which was the best way to pass her bits of his soul so that she could patch her own with it

  Jodi Picoult

  Offering, Soul, Body

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• My life would be constrained by the horror and fierce rage that my appearance inspired, but I would know peace as well as fear, tenderness as well as brutality, and even love in a time of cruelty.

  Dean Koontz

  Love, Age, Brutality

  Dean Koontz (2013). “Wilderness (Short Story)”, p.30, Bantam

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• When you work you fulfill a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born, And what is it to work with love? It is to weave the cloth with threads drawn from your heart, even as if your beloved were to wear that cloth. It is to build a house with affection, even as if your beloved were to dwell in that house. It is to sow seeds with tenderness and reap the harvest with joy, even as if your beloved were to eat the fruit. It is to charge all things you fashion with a breath of your own spirit. Work is love made visible

  Khalil Gibran

  Dream, Fashion, Heart

  Khalil Gibran, “Work Chapter VII”

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• Looking a dead insect in the sack of basmati that had come all the way from Dehra Dun, he almost wept with sorrow and marvel at its journey, which was tenderness for his own journey. In India almost nobody would be able to afford this rice, and you had to travel around the world to be able to eat such things where they were cheap enough that you could gobble them down without being rich; and when you got home to the place where they grew, you couldn't afford them anymore.

  Kiran Desai

  Home, Journey, Sorrow

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• It was odd, (Tessa thought), what brought out tenderness in people.

  Cassandra Clare

  People, Odd

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.327, Simon and Schuster

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• For the first time in forever, he was stunned to silence. Not by her words, but by the tenderness in her hands, the worry in her eyes. He was an archangel. He’d been wounded far, far worse and shrugged it off. But then, there had been no woman with sun kissed by the sunset and eyes of storm gray to tear into him for daring to get himself hurt.

  Nalini Singh

  Hurt, Eye, Sunset

  Nalini Singh (2011). “Archangel's Consort”, p.110, Penguin

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• I don't see what women see in other women," I'd told Doctor Nolan in my interview that noon. "What does a woman see in a woman that she can't see in a man?" Doctor Nolan paused. Then she said, "Tenderness.

  Sylvia Plath

  Men, Doctors, Doe

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• Inside all people there is love, also the need to take care of the other man who is his brother. Inside everyone is a savage, but there is also happening tenderness and compassion.

  Bryce Courtenay

  Brother, Men, Compassion

  Bryce Courtenay (1989). “The Power of One”, Random House LLC

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• What is a Poet? He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endued with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness, who has a greater knowledge of human nature, and a more comprehensive soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind; a man pleased with his own passions and volitions, and who rejoices more than other men in the spirit of life that is in him; delighting to contemplate similar volitions and passions as manifested in the goings-on of the universe, and habitually impelled to create them where he does not find them.

  William Wordsworth

  Passion, Men, Soul

  William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1815). “Poems”, p.376

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• A man must have a stout digestion to feed upon some men's theology; no sap, no sweetness, no life, but all stern accuracy, and fleshless definition. Proclaimed without tenderness, and argued without affection, the gospel from such men rather resembles a missile from a catapult than bread from a Father's hand.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Father, Men, Hands

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1870). “Feathers for Arrows: Or Illustrations for Preachers and Teachers, from My Note Book”, p.243

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• Looking from the window at the fantastic light and colour of my glittering fairy-world of fact that holds no tenderness, no quietude, I long suddenly for peace, for understanding.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Light, Long, Understanding

  Daphne Du Maurier (2012). “The Birds And Other Stories”, p.40, Hachette UK

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• The rapt pupil will be forgiven for assuming the Tsar of Death to be wicked and the Tsar of Life to be virtuous. Let the truth be told: There is no virtue anywhere. Life is sly and unscrupulous, a blackguard, wolfish, severe. In service to itself, it will commit any offense. So, too, is Death possessed of infinite strategies and a gaunt nature- but also mercy, also grace and tenderness. In his own country, Death can be kind.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Country, Grace, Wicked

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.79, Macmillan

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• People are mostly layers of violence and tenderness wrapped like bulbs, and it is difficult to say what makes them onions or hyacinths.

  Eudora Welty

  People, Onions, Layers

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• Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant to us, and invites us to them, not only by Reason, but also by Appetite: and ’tis Injustice to infringe her Laws.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Nature, Law, Action

  Michel de Montaigne (1947). “Essays of Michel de Montaigne”

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• It’s only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Real, Achieve, Refinement

  Lawrence Durrell, Earl G. Ingersoll (1998). “Lawrence Durrell: Conversations”, p.35, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• To see helpless infancy stretching out her hands, and pouring out her cries in testimony of dependence, without any powers to alarm jealousy, or any guilt to alienate affection, must surely awaken tenderness in every human mind; and tenderness once excited will be hourly increased by the natural contagion of felicity, by the repercussion of communicated pleasure, by the consciousness of dignity of benefaction.

  Samuel Johnson

  Hands, Mind, Guilt

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.47

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• I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have passed my time in study without experience; in the attainment of sciences which can, for the most part, be but remotely useful to mankind. I have purchased knowledge at the expense of all the common comforts of life: I have missed the endearing elegance of female friendship, and the happy commerce of domestic tenderness.

  Samuel Johnson

  Able, Comfort, Female

  Samuel Johnson (1850). “The history of Rasselas, prince of Abyssinia, a tale”, p.33

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• There are mornings when all men experience with fatigue a flush of tenderness that makes them horny.

  Jean Genet

  Morning, Men, Horny

  Jean Genet (1994). “Our Lady of the Flowers”, p.38, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• When we take voice lessons from the Master, we learn to speak with tenderness.

  David Jeremiah

  Voice, Lessons, Speak

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• The nourishment of Cezanne's awkward apples is in the tenderness and alertness they awaken inside us.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Apples, Awkward, Cezanne

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• I have understood that the most important things are tenderness and kindness. I can't do without them.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Kindness, Important, Understood

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• Martin Swinger is one of those rare singer-songwriters who excels at everything: singing, songwriting, guitar-playing, and being so present with his humor, tenderness, and wild mind that his performances are also deep conversations, soul to soul and heart to heart, about the quirks, surprises, and love that brings us most alive. His songs, ranging from the little plastic parts that hold the world together, to what enlightenment comes from Buddha and Betty Boop falling in love, are whimsically and wisely original and enduring.

  Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

  Song, Falling In Love, Heart

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• Dark and stately is the warm, graceful tenderness of the Sarabande

  Nathaniel Dorsky

  Dark, Warm

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• A husband should always try to treat his wife with the greatest courtesy and respect, holding her in the highest esteem. He should speak to her in a kind and a soft manner, showing his love by word and deed. As she feels this love and tenderness she will mirror it and return it tenfold.

  James E. Faust

  Marriage, Husband, Mirrors

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• And that is ... how they are. So terribly physically all over one another. They pour themselves one over the other like so much melted butter over parsnips. They catch each other under the chin, with a tender caress of the hand, and they smile with sunny melting tenderness into each other's face.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Hands, Melting, Faces

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Sea and Sardinia: Top Novelist Focus”, p.6, 谷月社

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