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• I wonder, whether, if I had had any education I should have been more, or less, of a fool than I am. It would have deprived me surely of those exquisite moments of mental flatulence which every now and then inflate the cerebral vacuum with a delicious sense of latent possibilities-of stretching oneself to cosmic limits, and who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?

  Alice James

  Dream, Giving Up, Reality

  Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”

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• For Fleur de Chine, I imagined the romantic and mysterious women from Asia's cinematic past-from the '30s femme fatale in a cheongsam and dark lipstick, to the'60s Hong Kong heroine of In the Mood for Love. I wanted to capture that fascinating, exquisite and slightly scandalous femininity.

  Tom Ford

  Dark, Past, Mysterious Woman

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• Prosperity, pleasure and success, may be rough of grain and common in fibre, but sorrow is the most sensitive of all created things. There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation. The thin beaten-out leaf of tremulous gold that chronicles the direction of forces the eye cannot see is in comparison coarse. It is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it, and even then must bleed again, though not in pain.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sad, Pain, Eye

  Oscar Wilde (1909). “De profundus”

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• Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face.

  Sydney Smith

  Faces, Nonsense, Tyranny

  Sydney Smith (1856). “Wit and Wisdom of the Rev. Sydney Smith”, p.376

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• Beauty is an exquisite flower, and its perfume is virtue.

  Giovanni Ruffini

  Beauty, Flower, Virtue

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• Clearly, many branches of science need an exquisite precision of timekeeping and the infinitesimal decimals of calibration, so space launches, for example, are not scheduled for leap-second dates. But society as a whole neither needs that obsessive time measurement nor is well served by it.

  Jay Griffiths

  Space, Example, Needs

  " The 'leap second' is a timely reminder" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.

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• I want to say at once that I frankly believe that Irving Berlin is the greatest songwriter that has ever lived.... His songs are exquisite cameos of perfection, and each one of them is as beautiful as its neighbor. Irving Berlin remains, I think, America's Schubert.

  George Gershwin

  Beautiful, Song, Believe

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• There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.

  Bernard Malamud

  Dark, Self, Mystical Experiences

  Bernard Malamud (2003). “The Natural: A Novel”, p.94, Macmillan

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• The bodies of the damned shall be crowded together in hell, like grapes in a wine-press, which press one another till they burst; every distinct sense and organ shall be assailed with its own appropriate and most exquisite sufferings.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Wine, Suffering, Together

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• A cat is a regency gentleman--elegant of pose, exquisite of manner, with spotless linen and an enthusiasm for bare knuckle fights, rampaging love affairs, duels by moonlight and the singing of glees. He expects immaculate service from his domestic staff, and possesses a range of invective that would make a navy blanch.

  Pam Brown

  Cat, Fighting, Men

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• In viewing the scheme of redemption, I seem like one viewing a vast and complicated machine of exquisite contrivance; what I comprehend of it is wonderful, what I do not, is, perhaps, more so still.

  Richard Cecil

  Machines, Redemption, Wonderful

  Richard Cecil (1825). “The Works of the Rev. Richard Cecil: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.222

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• Having kids is a full-time job. And I don't know any woman who isn't constantly fighting between the exquisite selfishness required to be an artist and this exquisite selflessness that's required to be a parent.

  Liz W. Garcia

  Jobs, Kids, Fighting

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The English take everything with an exquisite sense of humour. They are only offended if you tell them that they have no sense of humour.

  George Mikes

  Language, Humour, Ifs

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• It does not at first appear that an astronomer rapt in abstraction, while he gazes on a star, must feel more exquisite delight than a farmer who is conducting his team.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Stars, Team, Atheism

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• But no words will change my desire / My determination born of love / My will to set my eccentric sight / On an ever exquisite dawn

  Kenji Miyazawa

  Determination, Sight, Desire

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• We offer you the landscape of your birth --
  Exquisite and despoiled. We all share blame.
  We cannot ask forgiveness of the earth
  For killing what we cannot even name.

  Dana Gioia

  Names, Earth, Landscape

  Dana Gioia (2016). “99 Poems: New & Selected”, p.50, Macmillan

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• Broken by hardships, disappointments and tragedy, people can become discouraged and cynical. But lives can also be mended. Put back together well, they won't be just like they were before. Damaged pieces reassembled with a golden bonding of patience and love will help form a person into an exquisite masterpiece. It is as if people have to be broken before they can become whole and complete.

  Steve Goodier

  Disappointment, People, Broken

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• Sweet harmonious sounds give exquisite joy to human beings capable of appreciating music. I delight in hearing harmonious tones made by the human voice, by musical instruments, and by both combined.

  Brigham Young

  Music, Sweet, Voice

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• Winning a rowing race is not like winning anything else. Here's my theory: you're facing backwards, so you're looking at the people you're beating--and there's something exquisite about that.

  Hugh Laurie

  Winning, Race, People

  "Rowing, or the Greatest Decision You Will Ever Make" by Amy Yao, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 12, 2012.

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• However exquisite the contours or the colours of clouds, trees, rivers or hills, may be in themselves, they must be sacrificed if they do not conform with the general plan.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Sacrifice, Clouds, Rivers

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• If you meet somebody and are attracted to someone, and the exquisite neurons in your brain and her brain intermesh properly, then things can be wonderful. It's not like homework. You don't have to work at the relationship.

  Woody Allen

  Brain, Neurons, Homework

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• The great event of the evening was Jenny Lind's appearance and her complete triumph. She has a most exquisite, powerful and really quite peculiar voice, so round, soft and flexible and her acting is charming and touching and very natural.

  Queen Victoria

  Powerful, Voice, Touching

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• The spinning wheel is itself an exquisite piece of machinery. My head daily bows in reverence to its unknown inventor.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Pieces, Spinning, Bows

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• Ahimsa is nothing if not a well-balanced, exquisite consideration for one's neighbour, and an idle man is wanting in that elementary consideration.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Consideration, Mankind

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.60, Rajpal & Sons

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• An exquisite invention this, Worthy of Love's most honeyed kiss,-- This art of writing billet-doux-- In buds, and odors, and bright hues! In saying all one feels and thinks In clever daffodils and pinks; In puns of tulips; and in phrases, Charming for their truth, of daisies.

  Leigh Hunt

  Art, Clever, Writing

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