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• If you consider yourself a friend, dont tell me." Because if i know the rumors, i'll feel like i have to confront the. and right this second i want to live in ignorant bliss.

  Simone Elkeles

  Ignorant, Rumor, Want

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• To be conservative, then, is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to the possible, the limited to the unbounded, the near to the distant, the sufficient to the superabundant, the convenient to the perfect, present laughter to utopian bliss.

  Michael Joseph Oakeshott

  Laughter, Perfect, Facts

  "On Being Conservative". Essay by Michael Joseph Oakeshott, 1956.

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• Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Memories, Past, Agony

  Edgar Allan Poe (2017). “EDGAR ALLAN POE: 72 Short Stories and Novels & 80+ Poems; Including Essays, Letters & Biography (Illustrated): Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Raven, Tamerlane, Ulalume, Annabel Lee, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Tell-tale Heart, Berenice, The Philosophy of Composition, The Poetic Principle, Eureka…”, p.293, e-artnow

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• Only one thing bothered me: at this very moment, as they say, of inexplicable bliss there would be a sinking feeling at the pit of my stomach and my abdomen would be assailed by a melancholy, cold shivering. In the end I couldn't abide such happiness and ran away.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Sinking Feeling, Feelings, Would Be

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• Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.

  Charles Dickens

  Writing, First Love, Should Have

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Old Curiosity Shop”, p.82, Cosimo, Inc.

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• They say ignorance is bliss.... they're wrong

  Franz Kafka

  Ignorance, Ignorance Is Bliss

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• There are no words and there is no singing, but the music has a voice. It is an old voice and a deep voice, like the stump of a sweet cigar or a shoe with a hole. It is a voice that has lived and lives, with sorrow and shame, ecstasy and bliss, joy and pain, redemption and damnation. It is a voice with love and without love. I like the voice, and though I can't talk to it, I like the way it talks to me. It says it is all the same, Young Man. Take it and let it be.

  James Frey

  Sweet, Pain, Men

  James Frey (2003). “A Million Little Pieces”

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• Another flashing chance at bliss Another kiss, another kiss

  Jim Morrison

  Kissing, Chance

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• Bliss - a-second-by-second joy and gratitude at the gift of being alive, conscious - lies on the other side of crushing, crushing boredom. Pay close attention to the most tedious thing you can find (Tax Returns, Televised Golf) and, in waves, a boredom like you’ve never known will wash over you and just about kill you. Ride these out, and it’s like stepping from black and white into color. Like water after days in the desert. Instant bliss in every atom.

  David Foster Wallace

  Crush, Gratitude, Lying

  "Will David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King Be the Most Boring Book Ever?" by Lane Brown, www.vulture.com. March 3, 2009.

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• You are healed." Allegra nodded. "You are no longer a Silver Blood." She paused. "But you are no longer a vampire either." Bliss started. No longer a vampire-but what did that mean? Did it mean she was just human?

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Mean, Blood, Vampire

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• Then, brothers, it came. Oh, bliss, bliss and heaven. I lay all nagoy to the ceiling, my gulliver on my rookers on the pillow, glazzies closed, rot open in bliss, slooshying the sluice of lovely sounds. Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeosity made flesh.

  Anthony Burgess

  Brother, Heaven, Lovely

  Anthony Burgess (2012). “A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text)”, p.38, W. W. Norton & Company

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• That's just pain she said. It goes eventually. And when it's gone, there's no lasting memory. Not the worst of it anyway. It fades. Our minds aren't made to hold on to the particulars of pain the way we do bliss. It's a gift God gives us, a sign of His care for us.

  Charles Frazier

  Pain, Memories, Giving

  Charles Frazier (2007). “Cold Mountain: A Novel”, p.277, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Ignorance is more than bliss, it's freaking orgasmic ecstacy!

  Jim Butcher

  Ignorance

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• I wasn‘t—" I began. I didn‘t—" He began. How charming," V‘lane cut us off. His voice arrived before he did. "The very portrait of human domestic bliss. She‘s on the floor, you‘re towering over her. Did he strike you, MacKayla? Say the word and I‘ll kill him.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Cutting, Voice, Portraits

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• There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.....the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Love, Life, Men

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• ...and the red sun of desire and decision (the two things that create a live world) rose higher and higher, while upon a succession of balconies a succession of libertines, sparkling glass in hand, toasted the bliss of past and future nights.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Past, Night, Glasses

  Vladimir Nabokov (2016). “Lolita”, p.38, Hamilton Books

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• I am so fed up and joyless that not only have I nothing to fill my soul, I cannot even conceive of anything that could possibly satisfy it - alas, not even the bliss of heaven.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Heaven, Soul, Feds

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• And then the sly arch-lover that he was, he said the subtlest thing of all: that the lover was nearer the divine than the beloved; for the god was in the one but not in the other - perhaps the tenderest, most mocking thought that ever was thought, and source of all the guile and secret bliss the lover knows.

  Thomas Mann

  Secret, Arches, Beloved

  Thomas Mann (2010). “Death in Venice: And Seven Other Stories”, p.45, Vintage

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• Always remember to judge everything by your inner feeling of bliss.

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Judging

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• I can imagine no greater bliss than to lie about, reading novels all day.

  Julia Quinn

  Lying, Reading, Imagine

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• The Shaod, it was called. The Transformation... When it came, the fortuante person's life ended and began anew; he would discard his old, mundane existence and move to Elantris. Elantris, where he could live in bliss, rule in wisdom, and be worshiped for eternity. Eternity ended ten years ago.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Moving, Years, Mundane Life

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• A thousand recollected lives were passing through her, a thousand stories - of love and work, of parents and children, of duty and joy and grief. Beds slept in and meals eaten, and the bliss and pain of the body, and a view of summer leaves from a window on a morning it had rained; the nights of loneliness and the nights of love, the soul in it's body keeping always longing to be known.

  Justin Cronin

  Summer, Morning, Children

  Justin Cronin (2010). “The Passage”, p.718, Hachette UK

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• My captivity with Dimitri. The way his mouth—so, so warm, despite his cold skin—had kissed mine. The feel of his fangs pressing into my neck and the sweet bliss that followed... He looked exactly the same too, with that chalky white pallor and red-ringed eyes that so conflicted with the soft, chin-length brown hair and otherwise gorgeous lines of his face. He even had a leather duster on.

  Richelle Mead

  Sweet, Eye, Hair

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.89, Penguin

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• What other sport holds out hope of improvement to a man or a woman over fifty? True, the pros begin to falter at around forty, but it is their putting nerves that go, not their swings. For a duffer like [me], the room for improvement is so vast that three lifetimes could be spent roaming the fiarways carving away at it, convinced that perfection lies just over the next rise. And that hope, perhaps, is the kindest bliss of all that golf bestows upon its devotees.

  John Updike

  Sports, Lying, Golf

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• The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation, and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be believed only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance, called faith.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Religious, Pain, Ignorance

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1990). “On The Gods and Other Essays”

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