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• Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nastiness, and fabulous flashes of glory in the conjugal conspiracy. It was time when they both loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful for their incredible victories over adversity. Life would still present them with other moral trials, of course, but that no longer mattered: they were on the other shore.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Grateful, Adversity, Hatred

  "Love in the Time of Cholera". Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1985.

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• After Gibbs, one the most distinguished [American scientists] was Langley, of the Smithsonian. ... He had the physicist's heinous fault of professing to know nothing between flashes of intense perception. ... Rigidly denying himself the amusement of philosophy, which consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems, and liked to wander past them in a courteous temper, even bowing to them distantly as though recognizing their existence, while doubting their respectibility.

  Henry Adams

  Philosophy, Knowledge, Science

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• There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.

  Sarah Dessen

  Love, Romantic, Valentine

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.252, Penguin

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• Don't think. That is the wrong way to bring anything back. Let it go. Sooner or later it will flash into your mind.

  Agatha Christie

  Thinking, Mind, Let It Go

  Agatha Christie (1985). “Funerals are Fatal”

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• I'd rather be a flash than a slowly burning ember.

  Chris Crutcher

  Burning, Embers

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• Bluestar blinked. "There are cats who would argue that there should never have been a fifth Clan in the forest at all. Why are there four oaks at Fourtrees, if not to stand for the four Clans?" Firestar gazed up at the massive oak trees, then back at Bluestar. Fury pure as a lighting flash rushed through his body. "Are you mouse-brained?" he snarled. "Are you telling me SkyClan had to leave because there weren't enough trees?

  Erin Hunter

  Cat, Tree, Body

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• But nowadays everybody's a comedian, even the weather girls and continuity announcers. We laugh at everything. Not intelligently anymore, not with sudden shock, astonishment, or revelation, just relentlessly and meaninglessly. No more rain showers in the desert, just mud and drizzle everywhere, occasionally illuminated by the flash of paparazzi.

  Douglas Adams

  Girl, Rain, Weather

  Douglas Adams (2009). “Mostly Harmless”, p.175, Pan Macmillan

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• The whitewashing of windows can provide very effective protection against fire resulting from the heat-flash from nuclear explosions.

  William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw

  Fire, Nuclear, Heat

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• In these flashes of insight, I understand for a moment that one of the great dividends of darkness is an increased sensitivity to the light.

  Martha Manning

  Light, Darkness, Moments

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• I believe that human brilliance manifests itself only in flashes, among rare individuals. For this reason, humanity as a whole is enormously destructive: the creation of something as devastating as Western culture, which is now allowed to spread throughout the world, offers sufficient proof of this fact.

  Pentti Linkola

  Believe, Humanity, Western Culture

  Pentti Linkola (2011). “Can Life Prevail?”, p.133, Arktos

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• Creative art is the power to be for a moment a flash of communication between God and man.

  Ruth Sawyer

  Art, Communication, Men

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• The laughter in his deep-set black eyes, the feverish heat of his big hand around mine, the flash of his white teeth against his dark skin, his face stretching into the wide smile that had always been like a key to a secret door where only kindred spirits could enter.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Laughter, Eye, Dark

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• The flash would prove that proton decay really happens. The flash would mean that the matter of the proton - the solid stuff - had turned into the energy of the flash (E-mc2). Totally. Nothing left behind. No ash. No smoke. No smell. Nada. One moment it's there, the next moment - pffft - gone. What would it mean? Only this: Nothing lasts. Nothing. Because everything that exists is made of protons.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Mean, Smell, Energy

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• The spark of true poetry flashes when ideas are juxtaposed that no one has yet thought of bringing together.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Ideas, Together, Sparks

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• You are unique, and there may be incidents in your experience that are more noble and praiseworthy in their way than those recorded in any other life. There may be a flash of illumination here and a story of faithfulness there; you should truthfully record your real self and not what other people may see in you.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Real, Unique, Self

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• You know, these conservative women, somebody really needs to go repossess their ovaries. Really, truly, they have no right to them. They are fabulous, little organs and they have absolutely no right to be estrogen-bearing beings. Okay? Just cut 'em off, let 'em go through the hot flashes, let 'em just sit there and complain about hormone therapy, okay? Just take the ovaries and get it over with. Because they don't deserve to have estrogen. They really don't. It's a privilege.

  Randi Rhodes

  Cutting, Hot Flashes, Ovaries

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• The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps... so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash or thunder in.

  Dylan Thomas

  Poetry, Gaps, Thunder

  Dylan Thomas, Daniel Jones (2003). “The Poems of Dylan Thomas”, p.22, New Directions Publishing

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• Imagine your body replaced by dust and vapor, and having a tingly feeling in your stomach without even having a stomach. Imagine having to concentrate just to keep yourself from dispersing into nothing. I got so angry, a flash of lightning crackled inside me. “Don’t be that way,” Amos chuckled. “It’s only for a few minutes.

  Rick Riordan

  Dust, Feelings, Body

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• Hot flush, raging bluch. Ice flash, instant crash.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Ice, Hot, Rage

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• Man...heats up like a lightbulb: red hot in the twinkling of an eye and cold again in a flash. The female, on the other hand...heats up like an iron. Slowly, over a low heat, like tasty stew. But then, once she has heated up, there's no stopping her.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Sex, Women, Eye

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• As I watched Bill, waiting with apparent calm for death to come to him, I had a flash of him as I'd known him: the first vampire I'd ever met, the first man I'd ever gone to bed with, the first suitor I'd ever loved. Everything that followed had tainted those memories, but for one moment I saw him clearly, and I loved him again.

  Charlaine Harris

  Memories, Men, Waiting

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Dead and Gone: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.178, Penguin

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• Actually," Clary said, "I think he stayed because of me." Jace's glaze flicked up to hers with a flash of gold. "Because of you? Hoping for another hot date, was he?" Clary felt herself flush. "No. And our date wasn't hot. In fact, it wasn't even a date. Anyway, that's not the point. When he came into the Hall, he kept trying to get me to go outside with him so we could talk. He wanted something from me. I just don't know what." "Or maybe he just wanted you," Jace said. Seeing Clary's expression, he added, "Not that way. I mean maybe he wanted to bring you to Valentine.

  Cassandra Clare

  Valentine, Mean, Thinking

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• The heart overflows with gladness, and leaps and dances for the joy it has found in God. In this experience the Holy Spirit is active, and has taught us in the flash of a moment the deep secret of joy. You will have as much joy and laughter in life as you have faith in God.

  Martin Luther

  Faith, Laughter, Heart

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• In the alluvial sweep of the land, I thought I could see the past and the present and the future all at once, as though time were not sequential in nature but took place without a beginning or an end, like a flash of green light rippling outward from the center of creation, not unlike a dream inside the mind of God.

  James Lee Burke

  Dream, Past, Light

  James Lee Burke (2011). “The Glass Rainbow: A Dave Robicheaux Novel”, p.303, Simon and Schuster

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