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• Somewhere out there, beneath the pale moonlight, someone's thinking of me and loving me tonight.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Philosophy, Thinking, Tonight

  Song: Somewhere Out There

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• My memories pale as I prevail upon them again and again. They become more and more ghostly. I fear nothing so much as losing them altogether and having only my blank endless mind to live in.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Memories, Mind, Losing

  E.L. Doctorow (2009). “Homer & Langley: A Novel”, p.207, Random House

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• Analyze yourself. All emotions are reflected in the body and mind. Envy and fear cause the face to pale, love makes it glow.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Envy, Mind, Body

  Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1963). “Self-realization Magazine”

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• These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives.

  Cliff Burton

  Men

  "Song: 'To Live Is to Die'". 1988.

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• Find what is it that never sleeps and never wakes, and whose pale reflection is our sense of 'I'

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Sleep, Reflection, Never Sleep

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• A basic ingredient in the manufacture of perfume, the attar-a heavy, pale-yellow oil stored in small metal drums-had been put up as collateral by Bulgaria, in lieu of gold, at the Moscow Narodny Bank, a Communist finance house for East-West trade.

  S. J. Perelman

  Pale Yellow, Oil, House

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• Evening had fallen. A rim of the young moon cleft the pale waste of sky line, the rim of a silver hoop embedded in grey sand: and the tide was flowing in fast to the land with a low whisper of her waves, islanding a few last figures in distant pools.

  James Joyce

  Moon, Land, Sky

  James Joyce (2005). “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”, p.200, Collector's Library

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• Pale January lay
  In its cradle day by day
  Dead or living, hard to say.

  Alfred Austin

  January, Cradle, Lays

  Alfred Austin (1896). “Days of the Year: A Poetic Calendar from the Works of A. Austin”

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• One-fourth of humanity must be eliminated from the social body. We are in charge of God's selection process for planet Earth. He selects, we destroy. We are the riders of the pale horse, Death.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Horse, Eugenics, Humanity

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• To exaggerate the fairness of hair, I come even to orange tones, chromes and pale yellow ... I make a plain background of the richest, intensest blue that I can contrive, and by this simple combination of the bright head against the rich blue background, I get a mysterious effect, like a star in the depths of an azure sky.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Stars, Simple, Pale Yellow

  Vincent van Gogh (1929). “Further Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1886-1889”

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• If there were no falsehood in the world, there would be no doubt, if there were no doubt, there would be no inquiry; if no inquiry, no wisdom, no knowledge, no genius; and Fancy herself would lie muffled up in her robe, inactive, pale, and bloated.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Lying, Doubt, Would Be

  Walter Savage Landor (1829). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen”, p.222

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• Thou has conquered, O pale Galilean.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Christianity

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• 'Established' is a good word, much used in garden books,
  'the plant, when established' ...
  Oh, become established quickly, quickly, garden!
  For I am fugitive, I am very fugitive -
  Those that come after me will gather these roses,
  And watch, as I do now, the white wisteria
  Burst, in the sunshine, from its pale green sheath.
  Planned. Planted. Established. Then neglected,
  Till at last the loiterer by the gate will wonder
  At the old, old cottage, the old wooden cottage,
  And say, 'One might build here, the view is glorious;
  This must have been a pretty garden once.

  Ursula Bethell

  Book, Sunshine, Garden

  Ursula Bethell, Vincent O'Sullivan (1997). “Collected Poems”, p.8, Victoria University Press

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• I have sat here happy in the gardens, Watching the still pool and the reeds And the dark clouds. . . . But though I greatly delight In these and the water lilies, That which sets me nighest to weeping Is the rose and white colour of the smooth flag-stones, And the pale yellow grasses Among them.

  Richard Aldington

  Happiness, Dark, Garden

  Richard Aldington (1928). “Collected poems”

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• See, the curse of children! In life they keep us frequently in tears, And in the cold grave leave us in pale fears.

  John Webster

  Children, Tears, Cold

  1612 The White Devil, act 1, sc.2.

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• Pornography is just 'fast-food feminine energy', it will always leave you wanting more, with little or no nutritional value. There is nothing ful-filling about pornography, it pales in insignificance to a fully embodied loving woman.

  Barry Long

  Littles, Wanting More, Energy

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• Your problems pale in comparison with those of the millions of people in the world who do not have enough to eat.

  Michael Johnson

  Inspirational, People, World

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• Bears, dragons, tempestuous on mountain and river, Startle the forest and make the heights tremble. Clouds darken beneath the darkness of rain, streams pale with a pallor of mist. The gods of Thunder and Lightning Shatter the whole range.

  Li Bai

  Spring, Rain, Winter

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• He stared up at the stars, and it seemed to him then that they were dancers, stately and graceful, performing a dance almost infinite in its complexity. He imagined he could see the very faces of the stars; pale, they were, and smiling gently, as if they had spent so much time above the world, watching the scrambling and the joy and the pain of the people below them, that they could not help being amused every time another little human believed itself the center of its world, as each of us does.

  Neil Gaiman

  Stars, Pain, People

  Neil Gaiman (2007). “Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess's Stardust: Being a Romance Within the Realms of Faerie”, Vertigo

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• Don't turn over the rocks if you don't want to see the pale creatures who live under them.

  Janet Fitch

  Rocks, Want, Oleanders

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• Her heart felt as if it were breaking in her breast, bleeding and bleeding, young and fierce. From grief over the warm and ardent love which she had lost and still secretly mourned; from anguished joy over the pale, luminous love which drew her to the farthest boundaries of life on this earth. Through the great darkness that would come, she saw the gleam of another, gentler sun, and she sensed the fragrance of the herbs in the garden at world's end.

  Sigrid Undset

  Grief, Heart, Garden

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• We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing!" Pride helps; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts— not to hurt others.

  George Eliot

  Hurt, Disappointment, Pride

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.50, Penguin

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• When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Eye, Personality

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.17, Prestwick House Inc

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• To some, the image of a pale body glimmering on a dark night whispers of defeat. What good is a God who does not control his Son's suffering? But another sound can be heard: the shout of a God crying out to human beings, "I LOVE YOU." Love was compressed for all history in that lonely figure on the cross, who said that he could call down angels at any moment on a rescue mission, but chose not to - because of us. At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice. Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross.

  Philip Yancey

  Lonely, Pain, Love You

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• He looked at her an instant, for the effect of the graceful girlish figure with pale, passionate face and dark eyes full of sorrow, pride and resolution was wonderfully enhanced by the gloom of the great room, and glimpses of a gathering storm in the red autumn sky.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Eye, Dark, Autumn

  Louisa May Alcott (1997). “A Long Fatal Love Chase”, Thorndike Pr

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