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• agony sometimes changes form but it never ceases for anybody.

  Charles Bukowski

  Agony, Sometimes, Form

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• I have a heart to be stabbed in or shot in, I have no doubt, and, of course, if it ceased to beat, I would cease to be. But you know what I mean. I have no softness there, no—sympathy—sentiment—nonsense.

  Charles Dickens

  Heart, Mean, Doubt

  Charles Dickens (1881). “Great Expectations”, p.267

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• Peabody, you never cease to amaze me." "One day I'll tell you about my granny and her five lovers." "Five lovers isn't abnormal for a woman's lifetime." "Not in her lifetime; last month. All at the same time." Peabody glanced up, deadpan. "She's ninety-eight. I hope to take after her.

  Nora Roberts

  Eight, One Day, Abnormal

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• We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. Through the unknown, remembered gate When the last of earth left to discover Is that which was the beginning; At the source of the longest river The voice of the hidden waterfall And the children in the apple-tree Not known, because not looked for But heard, half-heard, in the stillness Between two waves of the sea.

  T. S. Eliot

  Children, Sea, Two

  Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 5 (1942)

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• But it never ceases to amaze me how difficult the things that are supposed to be instinctive really are.

  Rachel Joyce

  Difficult, Supposed To Be

  Rachel Joyce (2012). “The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry”, p.52, Random House

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• For nothing is fixed, forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have. The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

  James A. Baldwin

  Change, Children, Acceptance

  "The Fire Next Time". Book by James A. Baldwin, 1963.

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• ‗In life, at sometime or another we come to a point where all relationships cease—where there is only us and Allah. There are no parents, brother or sister, or any friend. Then we realise that there is no earth under us nor is there sky above, but only Allah who is supporting us in this emptiness. Then we realise our worth – it is not more than a grain of sand or the leaf of a plant. Then we realise our existence is only confined to our being. Our demise makes not a whit of difference to the world around us, nor to the scheme of things.

  Umera Ahmed

  Brother, Sky, Differences

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• How is it possible that a boyfriend ceases to exist from one day to another?

  Gayle Forman

  One Day

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.39, Penguin

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• If you love a flower, don’t pick it up. Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.

  Rajneesh

  Love, Wise, Spiritual

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• When your hero falls from grace, all fairy tales are uncovered Myth exposed and pain magnified, the grace pays uncovered He told me to be strong, but I confused to see it so weak You say never to give up, and it hurts to see what comes to be When your hero falls soley the stars, and so does the reception of tomorrow Without my hero, theres only me alone, to deal with my sorrow Your heart ceases to work, and your soul is not happy at all What are you expected to do, when your only hero falls

  Tupac Shakur

  Strong, Hurt, Stars

  Song: River That Flows Forever, Album: The Rose That Grew From Concrete

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• God's will is that none should perish. Judgement isn't His desire ... but His necessity. The good must bring evil to an end, or else it would cease to be good. And yet His mercy is still greater than His judgement. His heart always wills for redemption. And therein lies the hope.

  Jonathan Cahn

  Lying, Heart, Evil

  "The Harbinger: The Ancient Mystery that Holds the Secret of America's Future". Book by Jonathan Cahn, 2012.

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• I'd like to die listening to a piece of music. I imagine this as so easy, so natural, but naturally it's quite impossible. Notes stab too softly. The wounds they leave behind may smart, but they don't fester. Melancholy and pain trickle out instead of blood. When the notes cease, all is peaceful within me again.

  Robert Walser

  Pain, Smart, Blood

  Robert Walser (1990). “Masquerade and other stories”, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

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• It is useless not to seek, not to want, for when you cease to seek you start to find, and when you cease to want, then life begins to ram her fish and chips down your gullet until you puke, and then the puke down your gullet until you puke the puke, and then the puked puke until you begin to like it.

  Samuel Beckett

  Rams, Useless, Want

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “Watt”, p.33, Faber & Faber

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• Even though its common knowledge these days, it never ceases to amaze me that all the richness of our mental life - all our feelings, our emotions, our thoughts, our ambitions, our love life, our religious sentiments and even what each of us regards us his own intimate private self - is simply the activity of these little specks of jelly in your head, in your brain. There is nothing else.

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Religious, Love Life, Ambition

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• I shall not cease learning while I live, nor when I arrive in the spirit-world… and when I again receive my body, I shall …still continue my researches

  Brigham Young

  Research, World, Body

  Brigham Young (1860). “Journal of Discourses”

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• Surely the Shadowhunter community must honor you and hold you in high esteem as a gentleman who has truly advanced their race. No, Henry said sadly. Mostly they wish that I would stop suggesting new inventions and cease setting fire to things.

  Cassandra Clare

  Fire, Race, Community

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.281, Simon and Schuster

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• There's nothing you could have done that would cause me to cease loving either of you. Will is myself, my own soul, and if I am not to have the keeping of your heart, then there is not other I would rather have that honor.

  Cassandra Clare

  Princess, Heart, Soul

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• I want it to stop," he said. "Sophie says everyone is still searching for a cure for me. I know I gave Will my permission, but I want everyone to cease looking now, Charlotte. It is over.

  Cassandra Clare

  Sophie, Want, Permission

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Princess”, p.295, Simon and Schuster

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• A drowning man cannot be saved until he is utterly exhausted and ceases to make the slightest effort to save himself.

  Watchman Nee

  Men, Effort, Exhausted

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Normal Christian Life”, p.131, CLC Publications

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• Charlotte said that if I chose, I could cease to be a Gray and take the name my mother should have had before she was married. I could be a Starkweather. I could have a true Shadowhunter name." She heard Will exhale a breath. It came out a puff of white in the cold. His eyes were blue and wide and clear, fixed on her face. He wore the expression of a man who had steeled himself to do a terrifying thing, and was carrying it through. "Of course you can have a true Shadowhunter name," Will said. "You can have mine.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mother, Eye, Men

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• What is most important is to cease legislating for all lives what is liveable only for some, and similarly, to refrain from proscribing for all lives what is unlivable for some.

  Judith Butler

  Important, Refrain

  Judith Butler (2004). “Undoing Gender”, p.8, Psychology Press

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• But, she knew, you didn’t have to marry your soulmate, and you didn’t even have to marry an Interesting. You didn’t always need to be the dazzler, the firecracker, the one who cracked everyone up, or made everyone want to sleep with you, or be the one who wrote and starred in the play that got the standing ovation. You could cease to be obsessed with the idea of being interesting.

  Meg Wolitzer

  Soulmate, Sleep, Play

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• There are far too many people for us to think about each of them during our short stay on earth—like the thousands of books in a library we haven’t time to read in an afternoon. But this is no excuse to cease browsing. For every now and then, we find that one book that reaches us deep inside and introduces us to ourselves. And, in someone else’s story, we come to understand our own.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Book, Thinking, People

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• The whole sphere of air that surrounds us, Alma, is alive with invisible attractions — electric, magnetic, fiery and thoughtful. There is a universal sympathy all around us… When we cease all argument and debate — both internal and external — our true questions can be heard and answered…That is the gathering of magic.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Thoughtful, Air, Magic

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2013). “The Signature of All Things”, p.242, A&C Black

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• ...that melancholy which we feel when we cease to obey orders which, from one day to another, keep the future hidden, and realise that we have at last begun to live in real earnest, as a grown-up person, the life, the only life that any of us has at his disposal.

  Marcel Proust

  Real, Order, One Day

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.281, Wordsworth Editions

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