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• I heard endless conversations between my parents when I was going to sleep about how we would survive, how we would continue. All of them were about trying to make me better.

  Maria Sharapova

  Sleep, Parent, Trying

  "Maria Sharapova on her comeback, her love of competition and more". Interview with Jon Wertheim, www.si.com. June 15, 2012.

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• A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching.

  Sivananda

  Ocean, Water, Mountain

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• The unsaid message of that endless rack of juniors' pushup bras? No matter what size you are, it still isn't good enough.

  Adora Svitak

  Juniors, Matter, Messages

  "Would You Buy This for Your Daughter?" by Adora Svitak, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 12, 2011.

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• In Cleveland, I'm so fortunate that we're surrounded by farms with an endless variety of beautiful vegetables. For me, I always eat very tightly with the season, even if the season is only six weeks.

  Michael Symon

  Beautiful, Vegetables, Cleveland

  "Meat Man Michael Symon Does Meatless Monday". Interview with Peggy Neu, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 31, 2012.

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• I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.

  Sam Taylor-Wood

  Art, Way, Possibility

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• It's like that with what sort of ideas people outside of the band have of HIM. They all see it through a different lens as well which is beautiful. Hopefully, it makes it an endless topic of conversation.

  Ville Valo

  Beautiful, Ideas, People

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• I don't think about what I can't do or what I shouldn't be doing. I just think there are endless possibilities musically, really.

  Paul Weller

  Thinking, Possibility, Endless Possibilities

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• All that self-expression has just created a generation of morons, hooked on an endless appetite for rubbish.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Self, Expression, Rubbish

  "Did I say that?" by John Hind, www.theguardian.com. July 18, 2009.

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• Those of us who write spend our entire lives in an endless English class.

  Joss Whedon

  Writing, Class, English Class

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Looking out over the port of Dover, with the endless steam of boats coming in and out, every British citizen is reminded that belonging here has never been about blood or genes. It's simply about being at home on this discrete island and being aware of the privileges and responsibilities that brings.

  Julian Baggini

  Home, Responsibility, Islands

  "Why the white cliffs of Dover are so special" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2012.

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• Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself...It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of his divine discontent.

  Harper Lee

  Writing, Self, Exorcism

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• There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.

  Charles Darwin

  Beautiful, Simple, Cycling

  On the Origin of Species ch. 14 (1859)

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• The heart can think of no devotion Greater than being shore to the ocean- Holding the curve of one position, Counting an endless repetition.

  Robert Frost

  Positive, Ocean, Heart

  Robert Frost (1963). “Selected poems”

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• It is not a sudden leap from sick to well. It is a slow, strange meander from sick to mostly well. The misconception that eating disorders are a medical disease in the traditional sense is not helpful here. There is no 'cure'. A pill will not fix it, though it may help. Ditto therapy, ditto food, ditto endless support from family and friends. You fix it yourself. It is the hardest thing that I have ever done, and I found myself stronger for doing it. Much stronger.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Sick, Support, Stronger

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• The French have a new president, the British will soon have a new P.M., and we envy them as we endure the endless wait for this small dim man to go back to Texas and resume his life.

  Garrison Keillor

  Men, Texas, Envy

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• In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness; we are each the uncompanioned hermit and recluse of an hour or a day; we understand our fellows of the cell to whatever age of history they may belong.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Regret, Cells, Secret

  Sarah Orne Jewett (2016). “The Country of the Pointed Firs”, p.72, Sarah Orne Jewett

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• After a while I understood that, talking this way, everything dissolves: justice, pine, hair, woman, you and I. There was a woman I made love to and I remembered how, holding her small shoulders in my hands sometimes, I felt a violent wonder at her presence like a thirst for salt, for my childhood river with its island willows, silly music from the pleasure boat, muddy places where we caught the little orange-silver fish called pumpkinseed. It hardly had to do with her. Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.

  Robert Hass

  Distance, Silly, Hands

  Robert Hass, “Meditation At Lagunitas”

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• I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without sadness, there can be no happiness. Without misery there can be no beauty. And without these, life is endless, hopeless, doomed and damned. Adult. You have become adult.

  Harlan Ellison

  Pain, Philosophy, Sadness

  Harlan Ellison (2014). “Paingod: And Other Delusions”, p.36, Open Road Media

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• Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death, The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies, We, the people, must redeem The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers. The mountains and the endless plain-- All, all the stretch of these great green states-- And make America again!

  Langston Hughes

  Lying, Land, Rivers

  Langston Hughes (2004). “Vintage Hughes”, Vintage

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• It was evident to him that the world composed and recomposed itself constantly in an endless process of dissatisfaction.

  E. L. Doctorow

  World, Process, Ragtime

  E.L. Doctorow (2010). “Ragtime: A Novel”, p.91, Random House

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• So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes. It shall answer the endless inquiry of the intellect, — What is truth? and of the affections, — What is good? by yielding itself passive to the educated Will. ... Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions. A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Ideas, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.48, Library of America

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• The human phenomenon is but the sum Of densely coiled layers of illusion Each of which winds itself on the supreme insanity That there are persons of any kind When all there can be is mindless mirrors Laughing and screaming as they parade about in an endless dream

  Thomas Ligotti

  Dream, Mirrors, Wind

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• You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Dream, Lying, Sleep

  Jorge Luis Borges, Andrew Hurley (2004). “Aleph and other stories”, Penguin Classics

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• Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them.

  Annie Dillard

  Book, Light, Way

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• How I love them. How good they are. They endure endless hours of me talking about the future. They keep me near and at the same time bid me farewell. That is what real love is.

  Carole Maso

  Real, Farewell, Love Is

  Carole Maso (2006). “The Art Lover”, p.26, New Directions Publishing

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