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• We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Self, Deceit, Deceiving

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• Life is hard to bear: but do not affect to be so delicate! We are all of us fine sumpter asses and assesses.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life Is Hard, Bears, Ass

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2017). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA (Modern Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the World’s Most Influential Philosopher, Revolutionary Thinker and the Author of The Antichrist, The Birth of Tragedy & Beyond Good and Evil”, p.43, e-artnow

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• Success is the result of a delicate balance between making things happen and letting things happen.

  Robin Sharma

  Balance, Results, Letting Things Happen

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Feb 19, 2014

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• Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Acting, Doe, Actors

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• Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Cat, Insomnia, Pet

  "The Twelve Seasons". Book by Joseph Wood Krutch, 1949.

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• Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.

  Oscar Wilde

  Ignorance, Upper Class, Gone

  1895 Lady Bracknell. The Importance of Being Earnest, act 1.

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• What is the essence of America? The essence of America is finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from."

  Marilyn vos Savant

  4th Of July, Patriotic, Essence

  "Women Know Everything!: 3,241 Quips, Quotes, & Brilliant Remarks". Book by Karen Weekes, 2007.

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• Everybody thinks I'm this delicate little girl. But you can't tell a book by it's cover.' To which she added a momentary smile.

  Haruki Murakami

  Girl, Book, Thinking

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Norwegian Wood”, p.24, Random House

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• I spent more hours than I can count a quiet witness to the highly mannered, manifold expressions of life that grace our planet. It is something so bright, loud, weird and delicate as to stupefy the senses.

  Yann Martel

  Expression, Grace, Earth

  Yann Martel (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.

  Madame de Stael

  Mistake, Voice, Political

  "Germany". Book by Madame de Stael, 1813.

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• You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living.

  Anais Nin

  Believe, World, Picnics

  "The Diary of Anais Nin: Vol. 1 (1931-1934)". Book by Anais Nin, 1969.

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• Nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman; it is at once the most beautiful and most brittle of all human things.

  Fanny Burney

  Beautiful, Reputation, Humans

  Fanny Burney (1857). “Evelina: Or, The History of a Young Lady's Introduction to the World”, p.186

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• An honorable human relationship ... is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.

  Adrienne Rich

  Violent, Process, Honorable

  Adrienne Rich (2002). “Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations”, p.21, W. W. Norton & Company

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• What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.

  Henry Fielding

  Sex, White, Desire

  'Tom Jones' (1749) bk. 6, ch. 1

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• It isn't ever delicate to live.

  Kay Ryan

  Kay Ryan (2010). “The Best of It: New and Selected Poems”, p.26, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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  The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.

  Steven Spielberg

  Opportunity, Creating, Giving

  "Don’t have a mentor? Then mentor yourself" by Natasha Koifman, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 11, 2016.

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• Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures.

  David K. Shipler

  Spiritual, Song, Age

  David K. Shipler (2015). “Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land”, p.28, Broadway Books

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• A man who has depths in his shame meets his destiny and his delicate decisions upon paths which few ever reach . . .

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Destiny, Men, Decision

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1”, Lulu.com

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• A hero's love is as delicate as a maiden's.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Hero, Love Is, Maidens

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.113, Penguin

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• We have the resources the world needs. We can build a path for them to get there. That's that delicate balance that we find.

  Christy Clark

  Balance, Needs, World

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power.

  Paul Engle

  Reading Poetry, Language And Power, Ordinary

  New York Times, February 17, 1957.

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• When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the elements, not an aspiration of the breeze, but hints some cause for a lover's apprehension.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Love, Sky, Soul

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1861). “The Dramatic Works of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan”, p.226

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• Some men find happiness in gluttony and in drunkenness, but no delicate viands can touch their taste with the thrill of pleasure, and what generosity there is in wine steadily refuses to impart its glow to their shriveled hearts.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Heart, Wine, Men

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• A woman is gentle, soft, delicate, and a man's position is to protect her, help her up stairs, make sure she's in the car safely first. Take good care of your woman, and the sky's the limit!

  Taraji P. Henson

  Men, Sky, Car

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• ...and we have so far improved upon the custom of Adam and Eve, that we generally furnish forth our feasts with a portion of some delicate calf or lamb, whose unspotted innocence entitles them to the happiness of becoming our sustenance.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Animal, Humanity, Lambs

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, Nicholas R. Lawrence, Marta L. Werner (2005). “Ordinary Mysteries: The Common Journal of Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne, 1842-1843”, p.7, American Philosophical Society

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