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• Someday when I understand more things than I do now, the fundamentals of my drawing will be so tightly woven into those of existence that I will easily and naturally find the design which is the answer to many questions. Meanwhile, I draw continuously.

  Rico Lebrun

  Drawing, Design, Fundamentals

  University of Southern California, Rico Lebrun (1961). “Rico Lebrun: Paintings and Drawings 1946-1961”

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• I built a cannon out of ice, and wrapped myself in the funeral carpet which my husbands and wives had woven for me out of their own hair, and one of my wives was my gunner. I came back here, after many adventures, and once, when I'd been drinking, donated the funeral carpet to the national museum. When I was sober again, I asked for it back, but they claimed not to know what I was talking about.

  Kelly Link

  Husband, Drinking, Adventure

  Kelly Link, Shelley Jackson (2005). “Magic for Beginners”, p.62, Small Beer Press

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• Joy and woe are woven fine.

  William Blake

  Joy, Woe, Fine

  'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 53

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• We cut the hair from women after they had been exterminated in the gas chambers. The hair was then sent to factories, when it was woven into special fittings for gaskets.

  Rudolf Hoss

  Cutting, Hair, Special

  "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, 2004.

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• Time is the warp and matter the weft of the woven texture of beauty in space, and death is the hurling shuttle.

  Annie Dillard

  Space, Texture, Matter

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• It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Stars, Flower, Wreaths

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1854). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.531

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• In England especially, poetry's woven into the background fabric of society. And in Ireland, it's in the foreground. The place of the poet in Irish society is enormous. If you say you're a poet in Ireland, you'd better know what you're doing, because the standard and the expectations are incredibly high.

  David Whyte

  Expectations, Fabric, England

  "Courageous Conversations: An Interview with David Whyte". Interview with Kim Rosen, spiritualityhealth.com. December 8, 2014.

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• A mortal had woven it, a man who, having caught sight of the Seelie queen, had spent the remainder of his short life weaving depictions of her. He had died of starvation, raw, red fingers staining the final tapestry.

  Holly Black

  Queens, Short Life, Men

  Holly Black (2002). “Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale”, Simon Pulse

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• Man is firmly convinced that he is awake; in reality he is caught in a net of sleep and dreams which he has unconsciously woven himself.

  Gustav Meyrink

  Dream, Sleep, Reality

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• O, beautiful rainbow; - all woven of light!
  There's not in thy tissue, one shadow of night;
  Heaven surely is open when thou dost appear,
  And, bending above thee, the angels draw near,
  And sing, - "The rainbow! the rainbow!
  "The smile of God is here."

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Beautiful, Angel, Night

  "A complete dictionary of poetical quotations".

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• ONE BLOOD is a richly detailed, intricately woven tale rendered in lush, evocative prose. This memorable debut heralds Qwantu Amaru as a talent well worth watching.

  Brandon Massey

  Memorable, Blood, Talent

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• Each life reverberates in every other life. Whether or not we acknowledge it, we are connected, woven together in our needs and desires, rich and poor, men and women alike.

  Susan Griffin

  Men, Desire, Together

  "A Writer's Debilitating Illness Becomes Her Lens on Society" by Judith Gingold, www.sfgate.com. August 8, 1999.

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• Do not become paralyzed and enchained by the set patterns which have been woven of old. No, build from your own youthful feeling, your own groping thought and your own flowering perception.

  Lotte Lehmann

  Feelings, Perception, Patterns

  Lotte Lehmann (2013). “More Than Singing: The Interpretation of Songs”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• In Asian languages, the word for mind and the word for heart are same. So if you’re not hearing mindfulness in some deep way as heartfulness, you’re not really understanding it. Compassion and kindness towards oneself are intrinsically woven into it. You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Wise, Kindness, Heart

  "Q&A: Jon Kabat-Zinn Talks About Bringing Mindfulness Meditation to Medicine". Interview with Maia Szalavitz, healthland.time.com. January 11, 2012.

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• We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Indeed only by myth-making, only by becoming 'sub-creator' and inventing stories, can Man aspire to the state of perfection that he knew before the Fall. Our myths may be misguided, but they steer however shakily towards the true harbour, while materialistic 'progress' leads only to a yawning abyss and the Iron Crown of the power of evil.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Philosophy, Fall, Men

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• Work on a good piece of writing proceeds on three levels: a musical one, where it is composed, an architectural one, where it is constructed, and finally a textile one, where it is woven.

  Walter Benjamin

  Writing, Musical, Three

  "One-Way Street and Other Writings".

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• We have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention.

  John Keats

  World, Invention, This World

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• Each morning the day lies like a fresh shirt on our bed; this incomparably fine, incomparably tightly woven tissue of pure prediction fits us perfectly. The happiness of the next twenty-four hours depends on our ability, on waking, to pick it up.

  Walter Benjamin

  Life, Morning, Lying

  Walter Benjamin, Peter Demetz (1986). “Reflections: essays, aphorisms, autobiographical writing”, Schocken

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• Conversion is not a repairing of the old building, but it takes all down and erects a new structure. It is not the sewing on a patch of holiness; but, with the true convert, holiness is woven into all his powers, principles and practice.

  Joseph Alleine

  Practice, Old Buildings, Holiness

  Joseph Alleine, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “Alarm to the Unconverted”, Lulu.com

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• It is not just that animals make the world more scenic or picturesque. The lives of animals are woven into our very being - closer than our own breathing - and our soul will suffer when they are gone.

  Gary A. Kowalski

  Loss, Animal, Breathing

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• Don't leave a 'good time' to chance. Experiences have to be woven with care and planning, like a tapestry.

  Jim Rohn

  Care, Chance, Good Times

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• If liberty is worth keeping and free representative government worth saving, we must stand for all American fundamentals-not some, but all. All are woven into the great fabric of our national well-being. We cannot hold fast to some only, and abandon others that, for the moment, we find inconvenient. If one American fundamental is prostrated, others in the end will surely fall.

  Albert J. Beveridge

  Freedom, Fall, Usa

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• Your body is woven from the Light of Heaven.

  Rumi

  Light, Heaven, Body

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• Whenever any American's life is taken by another American unnecessarily - whether it is done in the name of the law or in the defiance of the law, by one man or a gang, in cold blood or in passion, in an attack of violence or in response to violence - whenever we tear at the fabric of the life which another man has painfully and clumsily woven for himself and his children, the whole nation is degraded.

  Robert Kennedy

  Children, Taken, Passion

  Robert F. Kennedy's Speech On the Mindless Menace of Violence at the City Club of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio, www.jfklibrary.org. April 5, 1968.

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• Sorrow is so woven through us, so much a part of our souls, or at least any understanding of our souls that we are able to attain, that every experience is dyed with its color. This is why, even in moments of joy, part of that joy is the seams of ore that are our sorrow. They burn darkly and beautifully in the midst of joy, and they make joy the complete experience that it is. But they still burn.

  Christian Wiman

  Color, Joy, Understanding

  "By Love We Are Led to God" by Christian Wiman, bulletin.hds.harvard.edu. 2012.

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