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• The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can divine nothing clearly, nothing with certainty.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Soul, Perception, Flesh

  Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953). “Zorba the Greek”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Behind Joy and Laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind Sorrow there is always Sorrow. Pain, unlike Pleasure, wears no mask.

  Oscar Wilde

  Laughter, Pain, Joy

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.105, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• I want to make a bet with you.” Her interest perked up. “You do? About what?” Already knowing it wouldn’t go over well, Spencer braced himself. “I bet you can’t go a month without cursing.” Her chin tucked in, and her brows came down. “What does that have to do with anything?” He had no idea, except that it annoying him to hear her be so coarse. “Go a month without cursing.” He hated himself, but he said, “Every time you slip, you owe me a kiss.

  Lori Foster

  Kissing, Ideas, Knowing

  Lori Foster (2012). “A Perfect Storm”, p.24, HQN Books

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• I have nothing to make me miserable," she said, getting calmer; "but can you understand that everything has become hateful, loathsome, coarse to me, and I myself most of all? You can't imagine what loathsome thoughts I have about everything." "Why, whatever loathsome thoughts can you have?" asked Dolly, smiling. "The most utterly loathsome and coarse; I can't tell you. It's not unhappiness, or low spirits, but much worse. As though everything that was good in me was all hidden away, and nothing was left but the most loathsome.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Spirit, Hateful, Miserable

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.109, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Shining, Soul, Genius

  Michel de Montaigne (2013). “Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays”, p.132, Courier Corporation

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• When you write, it’s like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring them unity. Your fingers have still not perfected the task. Some of the braids are long, others are short. Some are thick, others are thin. Some are heavy. Others are light. Like the diverse women of your family. Those whose fables and metaphors, whose similes and soliloquies, whose diction and je ne sais quoi daily slip into your survival soup, by way of their fingers.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Writing, Light, Hair

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• When we too are armed and trained, we can convince men that we have hands, feet, and a heart like yours; and although we may be delicate and soft, some men who are delicate are also strong; and others, coarse and harsh, are cowards. Women have not yet realized this, for if they should decide to do so, they would be able to fight you until death; and to prove that I speak the truth, amongst so many women, I will be the first to act, setting an example for them to follow. —Veronica Franco 1546-1591

  Veronica Franco

  Strong, Heart, Fighting

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• The knives in my apartment are only sharp enough to open envelopes with. Cutting a slice of coarse bread is on the borderline of their ability. I don't need anything sharper. Otherwise, on bad days, it might easily occur to me that I could always go stand in the bathroom in front of the mirror and slit my throat. On such occasions it's nice to have the added security of needing to go downstairs and borrow a decent knife from a neighbor.

  Peter Høeg

  Nice, Suicidal, Bad Day

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• I shall start at the beginning. Though of coarse, the beginning is never where you think it is.

  Diane Setterfield

  Thinking

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• Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.

  Samuel Johnson

  Night, Giving, Style

  'The Lives of the English Poets' (1779-81) 'Addison'

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• The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Character, Men, Expression

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.7

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• All things are the same, familiar in enterprise, momentary in endurance, coarse in substance. All things now are as they were in the day of those whom we have buried.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Endurance, Substance, Buried

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book IX, 14,

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• The commonest man, who has his ounce of sense and feeling, is conscious of the difference between a lovely, delicate woman and a coarse one. Even a dog feels a difference in her presence.

  George Eliot

  Dog, Men, Differences

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.192, Wordsworth Editions

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• Money: in its absence, we are coarse; in its presence, we are vulgar.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Absence, Vulgar

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• Venerable to me is the hard hand,--crooked, coarse,--wherein, notwithstanding, lies a cunning virtue, indispensably royal as of the sceptre of the planet.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Lying, Hands, Royal

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• This coarse and insulting way of regarding woman, as though they existed merely to be the safety-valves of men's passions, and that the best men were above the temptation of loving them, has been the source of unnumbered evils.

  Annie Besant

  Passion, Men, Safety

  Annie Besant (2012). “Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History”, p.200, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet. From those sounds which we hear on small or on coarse occasions, we do not easily receive strong impressions, or delightful images; and words to which we are nearly strangers, whenever they occur, draw that attention on themselves which they should transmit to other things.

  Samuel Johnson

  Strong, Writing, Attention

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The Lives of the English Poets”, p.115

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• The water rose further and dressed Simon's coarse hair with brightness. The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured marble.

  William Golding

  Hair, Water, Rose

  William Golding (2013). “Lord of the Flies : Text , Criticism , Giossary and Notes”, p.281, Al Manhal

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• Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.

  George Eliot

  Religious, Taken, Fate

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.269, ShandonPress

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• Friendship can exist between persons of different sexes, without any coarse or sensual feelings; yet a woman always looks upon a man as a man, and so a man will look upon a woman as a woman.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Sex, Men, Feelings

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• Flattery of the verbal kind is gross. In short, applause is of too coarse a nature to be swallowed in the gross, though the extract or tincture be ever so agreeable.

  William Shenstone

  Flattery, Kind, Applause

  William Shenstone, Phillis Wheatley (1773). “The works, in verse and prose of William Shenstone, esq. ...”, p.218

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• I call worldly or earthly those whose minds and hearts are fixed on a tiny portion of this world they live in, which is our earth; who respect and love nothing beyond it: people as limited as what they call their property or their estate, which can be measured, whose acres can be counted, whose boundaries can be shown.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Heart, Men, Mind

  "Of Freethinkers". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• So I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them: Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.

  Carl Sandburg

  Strong, Cities, Giving

  "Chicago" l. 10 (1916)

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• Only very coarse persons wanted wars.

  Pearl S. Buck

  War, Wanted, Persons

  Pearl S. Buck (1982). “The Old Demon”, Creative Education

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• The man who now confronted Gashford, was a squat, thickset personage, with a low, retreating forehead, a coarse shock head of hair, and eyes so small and near together, that his broken nose alone seemed to prevent their meeting and fusing into one of the usual size.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Eye, Men

  Charles Dickens (1872). “A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens”, p.65

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