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• All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

  Federico Fellini

  Art, Jewels, Oysters

  The Atlantic, December 1965.

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• There are always lessons to be found in the darkest moments. It's a moral obligation to dig deep and find that little glimmer of hope or pearl of wisdom.

  Andrea Pirlo

  Lessons, Littles, Moral

  "ANDREA PIRLO EXCLUSIVE: I almost quit after losing to Liverpool in the Champions League final, Ferguson was a purple-nosed boss of 'battleship', how I nearly won the double at Chelsea... and why Hodgson called me a '****head'". www.dailymail.co.uk. April 14, 2014.

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• He who would search for pearls must dive below.

  John Dryden

  Errors, Straws

  'All for Love' (1678) prologue

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• One pearl is better than a whole necklace of potatoes.

  Etienne Decroux

  Necklaces, Potatoes, Whole

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• It is the hour of pearl—the interval between day and night when time stops and examines itself.

  John Steinbeck

  Night, Hours, Intervals

  John Steinbeck (1993). “Cannery Row”, p.57, Penguin

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• But, this dark place is not the end. Remember that the darkness of night precedes the dawn. And as long as your heart still beats, this is not the death of it. You don’t have to die here. Sometimes, the ocean floor is only a stop on the journey. And it is when you are at this lowest point, that you are faced with a choice. You can stay there at the bottom, until you drown. Or you can gather pearls and rise back up—stronger from the swim, and richer from the jewels.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Ocean, Heart, Dark

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• Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Sound, World, Next

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• Faith is the silver thread upon which the pearls of the graces are to be hung. Break that, and you have broken the string - the pearls lie scattered on the ground.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Faith, Lying, Broken

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1963). “The New Park Street Pulpit: Containing Sermons Preached and Revised”

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• In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

  Honore de Balzac

  Jewels, Literature, Diving

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• A pure soul is like a fine pearl. As long as it is hidden in the shell, at the bottom of the sea, no one thinks of admiring it. But if you bring it into the sunshine, this pearl will shine and attract all eyes. Thus the pure soul, which is hidden from the eyes of the world, will one day shine before the Angels in the sunshine of eternity.

  John Vianney

  Eye, Angel, Sunshine

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• Contentment is a pearl of great price

  John Balguy

  Contentment

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• THIS TORTURE Why should we tell you our love stories when you spill them together like blood in the dirt? Love is a pearl lost on the ocean floor, or a fire we can’t see, but how does saying that push us through the top of the head into the light above the head? Love is not an iron pot, so this boiling energy won’t help. Soul, heart, self. Beyond and within those is one saying, How long before I’m free of this torture!

  Rumi

  Ocean, Heart, Love Is

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• We follow a path of discovery, strung like pearls on a thread of curiosity, lending richness to our work.

  James Krenov

  Discovery, Curiosity, Path

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• Though face and form alter with the years, I hold fast to the pearl of my mind.

  Hanshan

  Years, Mind, Faces

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• We provide both irritation and inspiration for each other- the grist for each other's pearl making.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Inspiration, Irritation

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.95, Penguin

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• Dive into the sea of thought, and find there pearls beyond price.

  Moses ibn Ezra

  Learning, Sea, Jewelry

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• Beauty of form affects the mind, but then it must be understood that it is not the mere shell that we admire; we are attracted by the idea that this shell is only a beautiful case adjusted to the shape and value of a still more beautiful pearl within. The perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering.

  Jane Porter

  Beauty, Beautiful, Ideas

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.84

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• Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous.

  Abdelkader El Djezairi

  Inspirational, Wise, Learning

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• My role in life is that of the grain of sand to the oyster-it irritates the oyster and out comes a pearl.

  Ross Perot

  Oysters, Roles In Life, Life Is

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• The rarest things in the world, next to a spirit of discernment, are diamonds and pearls.
  [Fr., Apres l'esprit de discernement, ce qu'il y a au monde de plus rare, ce sont les diamants et les perles.]

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Jewels, World, Next

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• That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who found a magic cup and learned that if he wept into the cup, his tears turned into pearls. But even though he had always been poor, he was a happy man and rarely shed a tear. So he found ways to make himself sad so that his tears could make him rich. As the pearls piled up, so did his greed grow. The story ended with the man sitting on a mountain of pearls, knife in hand, weeping helplessly into the cup with his beloved wife's slain body in his arms.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Dark, Night, Men

  Khaled Hosseini (2004). “The Kite Runner”, p.35, Penguin

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• A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty saying are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.

  George D. Prentice

  Witty, Kindness, Broken

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• Somewhere along the line, the pearl would be handed to me.

  Jack Kerouac

  Would Be, Lines

  Jack Kerouac (1991). “On the road”, Penguin USA

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• For memory, we use our imagination. We take a few strands of real time and carry them with us, then like an oyster we create a pearl around them.

  John Banville

  Memories, Real, Oysters

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• Sacredness grew like a pearl, sometimes around the most unlikely bits of grit.

  S.M. Stirling

  Grit, Sometimes, Unlikely

  S. M. Stirling (2012). “Lord of Mountains: A Novel of the Change”, p.23, Penguin

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