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• Without God, all of our efforts turn to ashes and our sunrise into the darkest of nights.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Night, Effort, Sunrise

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• A world war - God forbid! - will leave only smoldering ashes as a mute testimony of a human race whose folly led inexorably to untimely death. Yet there are those who sincerely feel that disarmament is an evil and international negotiation is an abominable waste of time.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  War, Race, Evil

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• The more our bodies fail us, the more naked and more demanding is the spirit, the more open and loving we can become if we are not afraid of what we are and of what we feel. I am not a phoenix yet, but here among the ashes, it may be that the pain is chiefly that of new wings trying to push through.

  May Sarton

  Pain, Wings, Phoenix

  May Sarton (2014). “Recovering: A Journal”, p.119, Open Road Media

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• What armies and how much of war I have seen, what thousands of marching troops, what fields of slain, what prisons, what hospitals, what ruins, what cities in ashes, what hunger and nakedness, what orphanages, what widowhood, what wrongs and what vengeance.

  Clara Barton

  War, Army, Cities

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• Even if I had any money I would rather burn everything I own and not even give them the ashes. They could have the job of picking them up. That's how much I hate the media industry.

  Peter Sunde

  Jobs, Hate, Media

  "Pirate Bay defendant: we can't and won't pay" by Jemima Kiss, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2009.

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• Alas! that my body, clean and whole, never been corrupted, today must be consumed and burnt to ashes!

  Joan of Arc

  Body, Today, Clean

  "Jeanne d'Arc, maid of Orleans, Deliverer of France". Book by T. Douglas Murray, 1902.

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• Ring around the rosie. A pocket full of posie. Ashes ashes, we all fall down. Some people say that this poem is about the Black Death, the fourteenth-century plague that killed 100-million people... Sadly, though, most experts think this is nonsense... How can I be so sure about this rhyme when all the experts disagree? Because I ate the kid who made it up.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Fall, Kids, Thinking

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• Winter broke off, finally, a long ash crumbling at the end of a cigarette, burned out, weak and emptied.

  Gregory Galloway

  Winter, Long, Crumbling

  Gregory Galloway (2015). “As Simple as Snow”, p.202, Penguin

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• Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of man, without his vices. This praise, which would be unmeaning flattery if inscribed over human ashes, is but a just tribute to the memory of Botswain, a dog.

  Lord Byron

  Dog, Memories, Men

  George Gordon Byron, “Epitaph To A Dog”

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• A truth comes out when it must; A dream comes true when it will. Though the world turn to ash and dust A secret’s a secret still.

  Sharon Shinn

  Dream, Dust, Secret

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• He lay listening to the water drip in the woods. Bedrock, this. The cold and the silence. The ashes of the late world carried on the bleak and temporal winds to and fro in the void. Carried forth and scattered and carried forth again. Everything uncoupled from its shoring. Unsupported in the ashen air. Sustained by a breath, trembling and brief. If only my heart were stone.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Heart, Air, Wind

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road”, p.10, Pan Macmillan

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• ...there are some children who aren't really children at all, they're just pillars of flame that burn everything they touch. And there are some children who are just pillars of ash, that fall apart when you touch them..." ~ Thomas Builds-the-Fire (played by Evan Adams) in Alexie's "Smoke Signals

  Sherman Alexie

  Children, Fall, Fire

  FaceBook post by Sherman Alexie from Sep 22, 2015

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• Is it any wonder, since, when near the fire, I was melted and burned, if now that it's extinguished outside me, it besets and consumes me inside, and bit by bit reduces me to ashes?

  Michelangelo

  Inspiration, Fire, Wonder

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• One of life's quiet excitements is to stand somewhat apart from yourself and watch yourself softly becoming the author of something beautiful even if it is only a floating ash.

  Norman Maclean

  Beautiful, Watches, Floating

  Norman Maclean, Barry Moser (1989). “A River Runs Through It”, p.68, University of Chicago Press

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• ...and a dream away in space with neither her nor there where all the footsteps ever fell can never fare nearer to anywhere nor from anywhere further away. Nor for in the end again by degrees or as though switched on dark falls there again that certain dark that alone certain ashes can. Through it who knows yet another end beneath a cloudless sky of a last end if ever there had to be another absolutely had to be.

  Samuel Beckett

  Dream, Fall, Dark

  Samuel Beckett, Edward Bond, Nikolai Bokov (1976). “New Writing and Writers”

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• In order to rise From its own ashes A phoenix First Must Burn.

  Octavia Butler

  Order, Phoenix, Firsts

  Octavia E. Butler (2012). “Parable of the Talents”, p.309, Open Road Media

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• Would you become a pilgrim on the road of love? The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes.

  Rumi

  Humble, Dust, Firsts

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• Then they set out along the blacktop in the gunmetal light, shuffling through the ash, each the other's world entire.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Light, World, Shuffling

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road”, p.4, Pan Macmillan

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• Never give us what we really want. Cut the dream into pieces and scatter them like ashes. Dole out the empty promises. Package our aspirations and sell them to us, cheaply made enough to fall apart.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Dream, Fall, Cutting

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• An ash-gray dog with a white blaze on its forehead burst onto the rough terrain of the market on the first Sunday in December, knocked down tables of fried food, overturned Indians' stalls and lottery kiosks, and bit four people who happened to cross its path.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Dog, Sunday, White

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• It wasn't so easy though, ending the war. A war is a huge fire; the ashes from it drift far, and settle slowly.

  Margaret Atwood

  War, Fire, Easy

  Margaret Atwood (2000). “The Blind Assassin”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• But thy strong Hours indignant work’d their wills, And beat me down and marr’d and wasted me, And tho’ they could not end me, left me maim’d To dwell in presence of immortal youth, Immortal age beside immortal youth, And all I was, in ashes. - Tithonus

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Strong, Age, Down And

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1255, Delphi Classics

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• All that is gold does not glitter,
  Not all those who wander are lost;
  The old that is strong does not wither,
  Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
  
  From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
  A light from the shadows shall spring;
  Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
  The crownless again shall be king.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Faith, Strong, Kings

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.127, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You can't lie down in the ashes of another person's life.

  Mattie Stepanek

  Lying, Persons

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• Above my cradle loomed the bookcase where/ Latin ashes and the dust of Greece/ mingled with novels, history, and verse/ in one dark Babel. I was folio-high/ when I first heard the voices.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Latin, Dark, Dust

  Charles Baudelaire, Richard Howard (1983). “Les Fleurs Du Mal”, p.165, David R. Godine Publisher

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