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• The further off from England the nearer is to France-
  Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance.

  Lewis Carroll

  Dance, Dancing, France

  The Brothers Grimm, Andrew Lang, Lewis Carroll, Антуан де Сент-Экзюпери, Шарль Перро (2016). “Fairy Story / Сказки Мира (ENGLISH EDITION + RUSSIAN EDITION): The Classic Fairy Tales And Folktales / Классика Всемирного Наследия”, p.85, Slavamax BVBA

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• The first pale blossom of the unripened year.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Spring, Years, Firsts

  Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: in two volumes”, p.14

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• Mrs. Lammle's manner changed under the poor silly girl's embraces, and she turned extremely pale: directing one appealing look, first to Mrs. Boffin, and then to Mr. Boffin. Both understood her instantly, with a more delicate subtlety than much better educated people, whose perception came less directly from the heart, could have brought to bear upon the case.

  Charles Dickens

  Girl, Silly, Heart

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Our Mutual Friend”, p.856, Charles Dickens

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• The smell of manure, of sun on foliage, of evaporating water, rose to my head; two steps farther, and I could look down into the vegetable garden enclosed within its tall pale of reeds - rich chocolate earth studded emerald green, frothed with the white of cauliflowers, jeweled with the purple globes of eggplant and the scarlet wealth of tomatoes.

  Doris Lessing

  Summer, Garden, Eggplant

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• You may build castles in the air, and fume, and fret, and grow thin and lean, and pale and ugly, if you please. But I tell you, no man worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or will be so.

  John Vanbrugh

  Men, Air, Wife

  William. II Congreve William Wycherley (John Vanbrugh and Farquhar George), William. II Wycherley, William Congreve, George Farquhar, John Vanbrugh (1840). “Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840”, p.317

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• What divides us pales in comparison to what unites us.

  Edward Kennedy

  Diversity, Divides, Comparison

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• I suppose there were moonless nights and dark ones with but a silver shaving and pale stars in the sky, but I remember them all as flooded with the rich indolence of a full moon.

  Willa Cather

  Stars, Dark, Moon

  Willa Cather (1998). “Obscure Destinies”, p.175, U of Nebraska Press

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• But boys and girls, pale from the imagined love
  Of solitary beds, knew what they were,
  That passion could bring character enough
  And pressed at midnighht in some public place
  Live lips upon a plummet-measured face.

  William Butler Yeats

  Girl, Passion, Character

  'The Statues'

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• O cloud-pale eyelids, dream-dimmed eyes,
  The poets labouring all their days
  To build a perfect beauty in rhyme
  Are overthrown by a woman's gaze.

  William Butler Yeats

  Beauty, Dream, Women

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.54, Wordsworth Editions

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• Great is the art,
  Great be the manners, of the bard.
  He shall not his brain encumber
  With the coil of rhythm and number;
  But, leaving rule and pale forethought,
  He shall aye climb
  For his rhyme.
  "Pass in, pass in," the angels say

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Angel, Numbers

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4360, Delphi Classics

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• slowly the pale
  dew-beads of light
  lapped up from flowers
  can thicken,
  darken to gold:
  honey of the human.

  Denise Levertov

  Flower, Light, Gold

  Denise Levertov (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.63, New Directions Publishing

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• Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces.

  Horace

  Death, Art, Kings

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• The spirit of God, like the sun, always gives all its light at once. The spirit of man resembles the pale moon, which has its phases, its absences and its returns, its lucidity and its spots, its fullness and its disappearance, which borrows all its light from the rays of the sun, and which still dares to intercept them on occasion.

  Victor Hugo

  God, Pride, Moon

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• one pale woman all alone,
  The daylight kissing her wan hair,
  Loitered beneath the gas lamps' flare,
  With lips of flame and heart of stone.

  Oscar Wilde

  Women, Heart, Kissing

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose”, p.153, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Pale and pinched-up faces hovered about the windows where was tempting food; hungry eyes wandered over the profusion guarded by one thin sheet of brittle glass--an iron wall to them; half-naked shivering figures stopped to gaze at Chinese shawls and golden stuffs of India.

  Charles Dickens

  Wall, Eye, Iron

  Charles Dickens (1875). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.426

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• Our checks are pale. Our wallets are invalids.
  Past due, past due, is what our bills are saying
  and yet we kiss in every corner, scuffing the dust
  and the cat. Love rises like bread as we go bust.

  Anne Sexton

  Cat, Kissing, Past

  Anne Sexton (1978). “Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• They make other nations seem pale and flighty,
  But they do think England is God almighty,
  And you must remind them now and then
  That other countries breed other men.

  Alice Duer Miller

  Country, Men, Thinking

  Alice Duer Miller (2013). “The White Cliffs”, Read Books Ltd

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• I am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. The blessings in which you, this day, rejoice, are not enjoyed in common. The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by me. The sunlight that brought life and healing to you, has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth July is yours, not mine.

  Frederick Douglass

  Father, Distance, Healing

  What to the Slave is the 4th of July?, delivered 4 July 1852

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• Far out of sight forever stands the sea,
  Bounding the land with pale tranquillity.

  Yvor Winters

  Sight, Sea, Land

  Yvor Winters (1978). “The collected poems of Yvor Winters”, Swallow Pr

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• All this knowledge of the objective world is of no value in comparison to having a little glimpse of the inner sky and its beauty - its sunrises and sunsets, its days and nights, its blue sky and its stars. The outer then looks only a pale reflection of the inner. The inner becomes more real and the outer becomes just a shadow.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Stars, Real

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• I dreamed that I stood in a valley, and amid sighs,
  For happy lovers passed two by two where I stood;
  And I dreamed my lost love came stealthily out of the wood
  With her cloud-pale eyelids falling on dream-dimmed eyes.

  William Butler Yeats

  Dream, Lost Love, Fall

  William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.186, Hayes Barton Press

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• You look pale, Sansa," Cersei observed. "Is your red flower still blooming?" "Yes" "How apt. The men will bleed out there, and you in here.

  George R. R. Martin

  Flower, Men, Looks

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.1408, Bantam

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• For the record, if I were Superman, a pale, scrawny guy holding a guitar would be Kryptonite.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Guitar, Kryptonite, Guy

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.92, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• But her name was Esmé. She was a girl with long, long, red, red hair. Her mother braided it. The flower shop boy stood behind her and held it in his hand. Her mother cut it off and hung it from a chandelier. She was Queen. Mazishta. Her hair was black and her handmaidens dressed it with pearls and silver pins. Her flesh was golden like the desert. Her flesh was pale like cream. Her eyes were blue. Brown.

  Laini Taylor

  Girl, Mother, Queens

  Laini Taylor (2009). “Lips Touch: Three Times”, p.196, Scholastic Inc.

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• If she were here I wouldn't be able to keep my hands off her. I would hold her so close she'd beg me to let her breathe. I'd kiss her so hard she'd plead for mercy. I'd unfasten her clothing and lie with her onthat hard bed, and what was between us would be as far above the ordinary congress between man and woman as the stars are above their pale reflections in the lake below.

  Juliet Marillier

  Stars, Lying, Kissing

  Juliet Marillier (2011). “Heir to Sevenwaters”, p.343, Pan Macmillan

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