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• Memories must enter the bloodstream, must churn awhile through the heart's mill, must be crushed and polished, be nearly forgotten or cling like burs to other stories before they spill forth in purple patterns, shapes of small bones and worm rot, shapes of clouds and the spaces between leaves.

  Keith Miller

  Memories, Heart, Clouds

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• God notices every one of us; there is not a sparrow or a worm that continues to live apart from His decrees.

  Charles Spurgeon

  God, Christian, Religious

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• I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Writing, Needs, Littles

  "The Latin master" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2001.

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• My life, my life, now I speak of it as of something over, now as of a joke which still goes on, and it is neither, for at the same time it is over and it goes on, and is there any tense for
  that? Watch wound and buried by the watchmaker, before he died, whose ruined works will one day speak of God, to the worms.

  Samuel Beckett

  One Day, Watches, Goes On

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “Molloy”, p.37, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• There are two bodies - the rudimental and the complete; corresponding with the two conditions of the worm and the butterfly. What we call "death," is but the painful metamorphosis. Our present incarnation is progressive, preparatory, temporary. Our future is perfected, ultimate, immortal. The ultimate life is the full design.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Death, Butterfly, Two

  Edgar Allan Poe (2014). “Complete Collection of Edgar Allan Poe - 170+ eBooks (Complete Tales, Poems, Novels, Essays, Miscellaneous, Play)”, p.501, Ageless Reads

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• The body is not important. It is made of dust; it is made of ashes. It is food for the worms. The winds and the waters dissolve it and scatter it to the four corners of the earth. In the end, what we care most for only lasts a brief lifetime, and then there is eternity. Time forever. Millions of worlds are born, evolve, and pass away into nebulous, unmeasured skies; and there is still eternity. Time always. The body becomes dust and trees and exploding fire, it becomes gaseous and disappears, and still there is eternity. Silent, unopposed, brooding, forever.

  Rudolfo Anaya

  Fire, Dust, Wind

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• I guess even the prettiest things eventually end up stinking. Everything does. We all will die and rot and decay and be reborn as dirt or flowers or worms, or polar bears who will drown because their ice is all melting, or presidents of war-torn countries, or whales swimming around acidifying seas. And then we will rot and decay again. And so it goes.

  Jaimal Yogis

  Country, War, Flower

  Jaimal Yogis (2009). “Saltwater Buddha: A Surfer's Quest to Find Zen on the Sea”, p.231, Simon and Schuster

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• The eastern light our spires touch at morning, The light that slants upon our western doors at evening, The twilight over stagnant pools at batflight, Moon light and star light, owl and moth light, Glow-worm glowlight on a grassblade. O Light Invisible, we worship Thee!

  T. S. Eliot

  Morning, Stars, Twilight

  T. S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.175, Faber & Faber

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• Wars, invented and organized by the highest available consciousnesses (do the worms go to war? do the fish? do the paramecia?), are the planet's chief source and cause of torment.

  Cynthia Ozick

  War, Causes, Consciousness

  Cynthia Ozick (2017). “Art and Ardor”, p.258, Atlantic Books

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• The book-worm wraps himself up in his web of verbal generalities, and sees only the glimmering shadows of things reflected from the minds of others.

  William Hazlitt

  Book, Reading, Mind

  William Hazlitt (1845). “Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.46

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• Countries are like fruit-the worms are always inside.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Country, Fruit, Corruption

  Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Collected Plays of Jean Giradoux”

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• Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Past, Vices, Energy

  "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville, Volume II. Book Three, Chapter XI, 1840.

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• I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform.

  James Fallows

  Patents, Reform, Giants

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• Time spent in a casino is time given to death, a foretaste of the hour when one's flesh will be diverted to the purposes of the worm and not of the will.

  Rebecca West

  Gambling, Purpose, Flesh

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews”, p.41, Open Road Media

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• Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no government-subsidized commission of engineers and physicists could create a worm.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Science, Technology, Men

  1949 The Twelve Seasons,'February'.

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• If every gnat that flies were an archangel, all that could but tell me that there is a God; and the poorest worm that creeps tells me that.

  John Donne

  God, Gnats, Creeps

  John Donne, Henry Alford (1839). “The Works”, p.415

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• The fate of the worm refutes the pretended ethical teaching of the proverb, which assumes to illustrate the advantage of early rising and does so by showing how extremely dangerous it is.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Teaching, Fate, Bed

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1903). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Ponkapog papers, A sea turn, and other papers”

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• What once was cuddled must learn to kiss The cold wonn's mouth. That's all the mystery.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Death, Kissing, Mouths

  "J. B".

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• After his death the gardener does not become a butterfly, intoxicated by the perfumes of the flowers, but a garden worm tasting all the dark, nitrogenous, and spicy delights of the soil.

  Karel Capek

  Flower, Butterfly, Dark

  Karel Capek (2002). “The Gardener's Year”

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• Worms have played a more important part in the history of the world than humans would at first suppose.

  Charles Darwin

  Important, World, Firsts

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• A critic is a lug-worm in the liver of literature.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Criticism, Literature, Critics

  Lawrence Durrell (2015). “The Avignon Quintet: Monsieur, Livia, Constance, Sebastian and Quinx”, p.193, Faber & Faber

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• A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will bring the worm at the core of all our usual springs of delight into full view, and turn us into melancholy metaphysicians.

  William James

  Pain, Spring, Loss

  William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.140, Courier Corporation

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• I cannot but think that he who finds a certain proportion of pain and evil inseparably woven up in the life of the very worms, will bear his own share with more courage and submission.

  Thomas Huxley

  Life, Courage, Pain

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1870). “Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews”, p.90, Adam, Stevenson

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• God may allow His servant to succeed when He has disciplined him to a point where he does not need to succeed to be happy. The man who is elated by success and is cast down by failure is still a carnal man. At best his fruit will have a worm in it.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Men, Doe, Needs

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• In Washington, as we learned from the White House transcripts, a president may speak of kicking butts, call a problem a can of worms, decide not to be in the position of basically hunkering down, anticipate something hitting the fan, propose to tough it through, sight minefields down the road, see somebody playing hard ball, claim political savvy, and wonder what stroke some of his associates have with others.

  Edwin Newman

  Sight, White, House

  Edwin Newman (1974). “Strictly Speaking: Will america be the Death of English?”

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