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• The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Family, Mothers Day, Father

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas Allsop (1836). “Letters, conversations, and recollections of S. T. Coleridge: in two volumes”, p.23

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• Fashions fade, style is eternal.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Fashion, Hair, Clothes

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• I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Wanted, Happened

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• Is it not certain that the Creator yawns in earthquake and thunder and other popular displays, but toils in rounding the delicate spiral of a shell? -Yeats, The Trembling of the Veil

  William Butler Yeats

  Earthquakes, Toil, Shells

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• Truth is literally that which is without secrecy, what discloses itself without a veil.

  R. D. Laing

  Truth Is, Secrecy

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• to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words...the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language. the world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable. It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear--filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Lying, Heart, Curves

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• Anything approaching the change that came over his features I have never seen before, and hope never to see again. Oh, I wasn't touched. I was fascinated. It was as though a veil had been rent. I saw on that ivory face the expression of sombre pride, of ruthless power, of craven terror--of an intense and hopeless despair. Did he live his life again in every detail of desire, temptation, and surrender during that supreme moment of complete knowledge? He cried in a whisper at some image, at some vision--he cried out twice, a cry that was no more than a breath: The horror! The horror!

  Joseph Conrad

  Struggle, Pride, Expression

  Heart of Darkness ch. 3 (1902)

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• Then I knew that the sign I had asked for was not a little thing, not a passing nod of recognition, and a phrase came back to me from my childhood of the veil of the temple being rent from top to bottom.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Childhood, Phrases, Littles

  Evelyn Waugh (1958). “The world of Evelyn Waugh”

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• To pay compliments to the one we love is the first method of caressing, a demi-audacity venturing. A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

  Victor Hugo

  Kissing, Love Is, Audacity

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• Upon a darkened night the flame of love was burning in my breast
  And by a lantern bright I fled my house while all in quiet rest.
  Shrouded by the night and by the secret stair I quickly fled.
  The veil concealed my eyes while all within lay quiet as the dead.

  John of the Cross

  Eye, Night, Flames

  "The Dark Night Of The Soul" by John of the Cross, Variant adapted for music by Loreena McKennitt, 1994.

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• When the rose is gone and the garden faded you will no longer hear the nightingale's song. The Beloved is all; the lover just a veil. The Beloved is living; the lover a dead thing. If love withholds its strengthening care, the lover is left like a bird without care, the lover is left like a bird without wings. How will I be awake and aware if the light of the Beloved is absent? Love wills that this Word be brought forth.

  Rumi

  Song, Garden, Light

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “The Pocket Rumi”, p.109, Shambhala Publications

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• Far overhead from beyond the veil of blue sky which hid them the stars sang again; a pure, cold, difficult music. Then there came a swift flash like fire (but it burnt nobody) either from the sky or from the Lion itself, and every drop of blood tingled in the children's bodies, and the deepest, wildest voice they had ever heard was saying: "Narnia, Narnia, Narnia, awake. Love. Think. Speak. Be walking trees. Be talking beasts. Be divine waters.

  C. S. Lewis

  Stars, Children, Thinking

  C. S. Lewis (2010). “A Year With Aslan: Words of Wisdom and Reflection from the Chronicles of Narnia”, p.39, HarperCollins UK

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• His gaze slid over me like a veil of fire. He could ignite my deepest desires with a single glance. I decided right then and there no more reading romance novels by candelight.

  Darynda Jones

  Reading, Fire, Romance

  Darynda Jones (2011). “Second Grave on the Left”, p.40, Macmillan

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• Says the girl dressed up in formal Goth mourning," Shane said. "Seriously, who buys a black lace veil? You keep that on hand for special occasions, like prom and kid's birthdays?

  Rachel Caine

  Girl, Kids, Hands

  Rachel Caine (2011). “Last Breath: The Morganville Vampires”, p.190, Penguin

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• He touched the rough crucifix that lay against his chest and whispered to the moving air, "Lord, that she might be safe, she and my children." Then turned his cheek to her reaching hand and touched her throught the veils of time.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Children, Moving, Air

  Diana Gabaldon (2011). “The Scottish Prisoner: A Novel”, p.521, Delacorte Press

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• The splendors of the firmament of time May be eclipsed, but are extinguished not; Like stars to their appointed height they climb And death is a low mist which cannot blot The brightness it may veil.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Stars, May, Brightness

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1832). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley and Keats: Complete in One Volume”, p.411

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• The practice of soulful travel is to discover the overlapping point between history and everyday life, the way to find the essence of every place, every day: in the markets, small chapels, out-of-the-way parks, craft shops. Curiosity about the extraordinary in the ordinary moves the heart of the traveler intent on seeing behind the veil of tourism.

  Phil Cousineau

  Moving, Heart, Essence

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• The girl who chooses to be modest, chooses to be respected.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Girl, Modesty, Modest

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• I'd define it as self-awareness: an ability to trust your own judgment. An ability to see through veils of bullshit or spins on stories or propaganda. Maybe an ability to think for yourself.

  Joe

  Thinking, Self, Bullshit

  "Joe Strummer: Putting a Scare Into The Hearts of All Things Corporate". Interview with Mariah Hasagawa, CRCRadio.net, 2002.

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• Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil, to lift off the bondage and illusion.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Divinity

  Swami Vivekananda, Ann Myren (1993). “Living at the Source: Yoga Teachings of Vivekananda”, Shambhala Publications

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• Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Inspiring, Everyday, Everyday Living

  Zora Neale Hurston (1995). “Zora Neale Hurston: Novels and Stories: Jonah's Gourd Vine / Their Eyes Were Watching God / Moses, Man of the Mountain / Seraph on the Suwanee / Selected Stories”

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• Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits

  Antonio Machado

  Inspirational, Believe, Thinking

  Antonio Machado (1963). “Juan de Mairena”, Univ of California Press

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• My wedding was at home, so I didn't really want to wear a veil in my house. Instead I wore a lot of diamond hair clips. They were brooches, actually, designed by Lorraine Schwartz.

  Georgina Chapman

  Wedding, Home, Hair

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• We must revolutionize our optical perception. We must remove the veil from our eyes.

  Alexander Rodchenko

  Eye, Perception, Vision

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• Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand - but tell it.

  Zadie Smith

  Hands, Telling The Truth

  "Zadie Smith's rules for writers" by Zadie Smith, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2010.

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