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• Miriam realizes she is a broken vessel, pieces of her scattered everywhere. She has been finding those pieces, in their many forms, and bringing them together so she can be whole again.

  Myla Goldberg

  Broken, Together, Pieces

  Myla Goldberg (2002). “Bee Season: A Novel”, p.1087, Anchor

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• ...so young, so lonely and naive, that she imagined herself as some sort of vessel to be filled up with love. But it wasn't like that. The love was within her all the time and its only renewal came from giving it away.

  Kim Edwards

  Lonely, Filled Up, Giving

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.247, Penguin

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• When my friend Melot set the trap, I think I knew it. I turned to death full face, as I had turned to love with my whole body. I would let death enter me as you had entered me. You had crept along my blood vessels through the wound, and the blood that circulates returns to the heart. You circulated me, you made me blush like a girl in the hoop of your hands. You were in my arteries and my lymph, you were the colour just under my skin, and if I cut myself, it was you I bled. Red Isolde, alive on my fingers, and always the force of blood pushing you back to my heart.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Girl, Heart, Cutting

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• Some say it is best not to go near the center of time. Life is a vessel of sadness, but is noble to live life and without time there is no life. Others disagree. They would rather have an eternity of contentment, even if that eternity were fixed and frozen, like a butterfly mounted in a case.

  Alan Lightman

  Live Life, Butterfly, Sadness

  Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.47, Vintage

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• It's been a prevalent notion. Fallen sparks. Fragments of vessels broken at the Creation. And someday, somehow, before the end, a gathering back to home. A messenger from the Kingdom, arriving at the last moment. But I tell you there is no such message, no such home -- only the millions of last moments . . . nothing more. Our history is an aggregate of last moments.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Atheist, Home, Broken

  FaceBook post by Thomas Pynchon from Nov 06, 2014

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• And I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident, or one house burned, or one vessel wrecked, or one steamboat blown up, or one cow run over on the Western Railroad, or one mad dog killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter, - we need never read of another. One is enough. If you are acquainted with the principle, what do you care for a myriad instances and applications?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Running, Dog, Memorable

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.68, Xist Publishing

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• These are the intensities that one cannot live with, that he has to outgrow if he wants to survive. But who can help grieving for them? If the blood vessels could hold them, how much better to keep those early loves with us?

  Tennessee Williams

  Grieving, Blood, Want

  Tennessee Williams (1994). “Collected Stories”, p.275, New Directions Publishing

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• A shade of sorrow passed over Taliesin's face. 'There are those,' he said gently, 'who must first learn loss, despair, and grief. Of all paths to wisdom, this is the cruelest and longest. Are you one who must follow such a way? This even I cannot know. If you are, take heart nonetheless. Those who reach the end do more than gain wisdom. As rough wool becomes cloth, and crude clay a vessel, so do they change and fashion wisdom for others, and what they give back is greater than what they won.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Fashion, Grief, Heart

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The High King: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.81, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• Odd to think that the piece of you I know best is already dead. The cells on the surface of your skin are thin and flat without the blood vessels or nerve endings. Dead cells, thickest on the palms of your hands and the soles of your feet.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Thinking, Cells, Blood

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• Fiction is a branch of neurology: the scenarios of nerve and blood vessels are the written mythologies of memory and desire.

  J. G. Ballard

  Memories, Blood, Desire

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• I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart: but the saying is true 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound'.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Empty Vessels, Voice

  William Shakespeare (1733). “The Works of Shakespeare in Seven Volumes”, p.79

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• We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing; those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind?....... We make our own destiny.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Fate

  Swami Vivekananda (1962). “What Religion is: In the Words of Swami Vivekananda”

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• When did we see each other face-to-face? Not until you saw into my cracks and I saw into yours. Before that, we were just looking at ideas of each other, like looking at your window shade but never seeing inside. But once the vessel cracks, the light can get in. The light can get out.

  John Green

  Real, Light, Ideas

  "Paper Towns". Book by John Green, October 16, 2008.

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• Weary of myself, and sick of asking What I am, and what I ought to be, At this vessel's prow I stand, which bears me Forwards, forwards, o'er the starlit sea.

  Matthew Arnold

  Sea, Sick, Asking

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.163, Delphi Classics

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• The world was simply and sheerly divided into 'the aware', those who had the experience of being vessels of the divine, and a great mass of 'the unaware', 'the unmusical', 'the unattuned.

  Tom Wolfe

  World, Divine, Mass

  Tom Wolfe (2008). “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test”, p.149, Macmillan

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• Diogenes carried a bowl with him for years, but one day saw a man drinking from his cupped palm and declared, ‘I have been a fool, burdened all these years by the weight of a bowl when a perfectly good vessel lay at the end of my wrist.

  Christopher Moore

  Drinking, Men, Perfectly Good

  Christopher Moore (2009). “Lamb: A Novel”, p.193, Hachette UK

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• It was wonderful love that Christ should rather die for us than for the angels that fell. They were creatures of a more noble extract, and in all probability might have brought greater revenues of glory to God; yet that Christ should pass by those golden vessels, and make us clods of earth into stars of glory -- Oh, the hyperbole of Christ's love!

  Thomas Watson

  Stars, Angel, Noble

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• Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.

  Salman Rushdie

  Children, Adults, Poison

  "Midnight's Children". Book by Salman Rushdie, September 7, 2010.

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• It was in the days when France's power was already broken upon the seas, and when more of her three-deckers lay rotting in the Medway than were to be found in Brest harbour. But her frigates and corvettes still scoured the ocean, closely followed ever by those of her rival. At the uttermost ends of the earth these dainty vessels, with sweet names of girls or of flowers, mangled and shattered each other for the honour of the four yards of bunting which flapped from the end of their gaffs.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Girl, Sweet, Ocean

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.6881, Delphi Classics

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• We're all cracked vessels, and we're always in process, I think, every one of us.

  Tavis Smiley

  Thinking, Process, Cracked

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think of my best poems as vessels that I can or hope to fill with everything I have. I try to give to them all of the electric complexity. Each one fails at this, of course, but I keep trying - adoring each of them, loving the process, the ebb and flow of it - and each time, the failures fail a bit better.

  Alex Lemon

  Thinking, Giving, Trying

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• All other men, being born of woman, have a navel, by reason of the umbilical vessels inserted into it, which from the placenta carry nourishment to children in the womb of their mothers; but it could not be so with our first parents. It cannot be believed that God gave them navels which would have been altogether useless.

  Richard Cumberland

  God, Mother, Children

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• What we are saying is we have to be smart about the ideology that is putting this idea into the world that a woman must be defined by her idea of modesty, that she is the vessel for honor in a community. And I believe that we have to be very pragmatic, too, about the consequence of this. Women in Iran and Saudi Arabia are jailed, punished and harassed if they don't cover themselves legally, according to the standard of those countries. So the consequences for many women is oftentimes very dark.

  Asra Nomani

  Country, Smart, Believe

  "The Case Against Wearing Hijab To Support Muslim Women". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. December 22, 2015.

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• Well, what if we did this in the mind as opposed to the brain? So instead of blood vessels and dendrites, what if it was consciousness and dream production? And that would allow us to have characters that represent emotions. And that felt like, man, that's exactly what animation does best - strong, opinionated, caricatured personalities. And that just got me excited.

  Pete Docter

  Dream, Strong, Character

  "It's All In Your Head: Director Pete Docter Gets Emotional In 'Inside Out'". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. February 19, 2016.

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• God has chosen little nations as the vessels by which He carries His choicest wines to the lips of humanity to rejoice their hearts, to exalt their vision, to strengthen their faith, and if we had stood by when two little nations [Belgium and Serbia] were being crushed and broken by the brutal hands of barbarians, our shame would have rung down the everlasting ages.

  David Lloyd George

  War, Heart, Wine

  "The Great War". David Lloyd George's Speech delivered at the Queen's Hall, London, September 19, 1914.

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