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• Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

  Bernard Malamud

  Writing, Revision, Pleasure

  "Reflections of a Writer: Long Work, Short Life". The New York Times, March 20, 1988.

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• The mortal world is in a state of Beautiful Chaos and destruction, which will ultimately lead to an exquisite end.

  Kami Garcia

  Beautiful, World, Chaos

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• Sometimes I know the meaning of a word but am tired of it and feel the need for an unfamiliar, especially precise or poetic term, perhaps one with a nuance that flatters my readership's exquisite sensitivity.

  William Safire

  Tired, Needs, Nuance

  "Dictionaurus" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. June 10, 2009.

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• The most exquisite pleasure is giving pleasure to others.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Giving, Pleasure

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• No words will ever describe the exquisite beauty and charm of this mountain park – Nature’s landscape garden at once tenderly beautiful and sublime. No wonder it draws nature-lovers from all over the world.

  John Muir

  Beautiful, Garden, Sublime

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.275, Library of America

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• An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Artist, Pleasure, Deformity

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• Joys too exquisite to last, And yet more exquisite when past.

  James Montgomery

  Past, Joy, Lasts

  James Montgomery (1838). “Lectures on general literature, poetry &c: delivered at the Royal Institution in 1830 and 1831”, p.67

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• The matter of international relations is very subtle and exquisite.

  Vladimir Zhirinovsky

  Matter, Subtle, Relation

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• Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like... Some wines that some experts think are absolutely exquisite don't appeal to me at all.

  John Cleese

  Wine, Thinking, Experts

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• When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Music, Headstone

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Evangeline (Annotated Student's Edition)”, p.27, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.

  George Henry Lewes

  Inspiring, Book, Delight

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Simple, Kitchen, Tables

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• Christ's boundless grace confronts our deep necessities. Christ's promised presence confronts our sad and gloomy loneliness. Jesus thus filled with grace so overflowing, with love so tender, with sympathy so exquisite, with power so illimitable, with resources so boundless, with a nature so changeless, stands before us and says to each trembling heart, 'Fear not!'

  Octavius Winslow

  Jesus, Loneliness, Heart

  Octavius Winslow (1860). “Divine Realities; or, spiritual reflections for the saint and sinner”, p.19

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• It's amazing how photography can capture just a split second of something exquisite.

  Kiera Cass

  Photography, Splits, Capture

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• Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.

  Emily Dickinson

  Inspirational, Life, Break

  Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.289, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• We have come into this exquisite world to experience ever and ever more deeply our divine courage, freedom and light!

  Hafez

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Courage

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• Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Moments, Made

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “The Plays of Oscar Wilde”, p.237, Wordsworth Editions

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• I'm so impressed by Jennifer Lawrence and Carey Mulligan. They have this exquisite taste. They are very gifted in their ability to make great choices.

  Claire Danes

  Choices, Taste, Mulligans

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• My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

  Adrienne Rich

  Children, Feelings, Suffering

  Adrienne Rich (1976). “Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution”

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• You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?

  Oscar Wilde

  Cigarette Smoke, Perfect, Smoking

  'The Picture of Dorian Gray' (1891) ch. 6

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• The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

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  Ram Dass

  Power, Want, Be Here Now

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• The skies and land are so enormous, and the detail so precise and exquisite that wherever you are you are isolated in a glowing world between the macro and the micro.

  Ansel Adams

  Glowing, Land, Sky

  Ansel Adams, Karen E. Haas, Rebecca A. Senf (2005). “Ansel Adams: in the Lane Collection”, Museum of Fine Arts Boston

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• Coral reefs represent some of the worlds most spectacular beauty spots, but they are also the foundation of marine life: without them many of the seas most exquisite species will not survive.

  Sheherazade Goldsmith

  Marine, Sea, Coral Reefs

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• One wants to move through life with elegance and grace, blossoming infrequently but with exquisite taste, and perfect timing, like a rare bloom, a zebra orchid... One wants... But one so seldom gets what one wants, does one?

  Tony Kushner

  Zebras, Moving, Orchids

  Tony Kushner (2013). “Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition”, p.31, Theatre Communications Group

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• I want to lead the Victorian life, surrounded by exquisite clutter.

  Freddie Mercury

  Want, Clutter, Victorian

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