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• A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.

  Carson McCullers

  Beautiful, Swamps, Mediocre

  Carson McCullers (1955). “The Ballad of the Sad Cafe: And Collected Short Stories”

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• No matter how hard she tried to concentrate on something else, to pass the time and to distract her from the situation she was in, the fear came trickling out. It hovered like a cloud of gas around her, threatening to penetrate her pores and poison her.

  Steig Larsson

  Clouds, Matter, Threatening

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• Abiding happiness is not simply a possibility, but a duty; that all may live above the troubles of life; that worry is a poison and happiness a medicine.

  Newell Dwight Hillis

  Happiness, Medicine, Worry

  "The Quest of Happiness: A Study of Victory Over Life's Troubles".

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• Despite official drivel about clean bombs and tactical nuclear weapons, anyone who can read a newspaper or listen to a radio knows that some of us mortals have the power to destroy the human race and man's home on earth. We need not even make war; only by preparing, by playing with our new weapons, we poison the air, the water, the soil of our plants, damage the health of the living, and weaken the chances of the newborn.

  Martha Gellhorn

  War, Home, Men

  Martha Gellhorn (1959). “The Face of War”

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• O, Winter! Put away thy snowy pride;
  O, Spring! Neglect the cowslip and the bell;
  O, Summer! Throw thy pears and plums aside;
  O, Autumn! Bid the grape with poison swell.

  Thomas Chatterton

  Summer, Spring, Autumn

  Thomas Chatterton, George Gregory (1803). “The Works of Thomas Chatterton ...: Life of Chatterton, by G. Gregory. Miscellaneous poems”, p.31

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• There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Buddhism, People

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• Arraigned at my own bar, Memory having given her evidence of the hopes, wishes, sentiments I had been cherishing since last night-- of the general state of mind which I have indulged for nearly a fortnight past; Reason having come forward and told in her own quiet way , a plain, unvarnished tale, showing how I had rejected the real, and rabidly devoured the ideal;-- I pronounced judgment to this effect:-- That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life: that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited herself on sweet lies, and swallowed the poison as if it were nectar.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Sweet, Memories, Real

  Charlotte Bronte (2014). “The Complete Works Of Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette, and The Professor”, p.219, Harper Collins

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• When the cup of any sensual pleasure is drained to the bottom, there is always poison in the dregs.

  Jane Porter

  Sensual, Cups, Pleasure

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.110

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• "State," I call it, where they all drink poison, the good and the wicked; "state," where they all lose themselves, the good and the wicked; "state," where they all call their slow suicide-"life."

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Suicide, Wicked, Drink

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• The world could bring you poison in a jewelled cup, or surprising gifts. Sometimes you didn't know which of them it was.

  Guy Gavriel Kay

  World, Cups, Sometimes

  Guy Gavriel Kay (2010). “Under Heaven”, p.18, Penguin

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• I don't know when it started - this thing - bit it's growing, muffling me, suffocating me like poison ivy. I grew into it. It grew into me. We blurred at the edges, became an amorphous, seeping, crawling thing.

  Tabitha Suzuma

  Ivy, Growing, Crawling

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• Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. As far as an amiable disposition and powers of entertainment make you so, it is a happiness; but if there is one grain of plausibility, it is poison.

  Margaret Fuller

  Entertainment, Beloved, Pleasure

  Margaret Fuller (2008). “Woman in the Ninteenth Century (EasyRead Comfort Edition)”, p.400, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• the touch of evil poisons by the idea of it. Reject the idea, and you've rejected the evil

  Robin McKinley

  Ideas, Evil, Rejected

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• The tent in which she first met him had smelled of blood, of the death she did not understand, and still she had thought of it all as a game. She had promised him the world. His flesh in the flesh of his enemies. And much too late had she realized what he had sown in her. Love. Worst of all poisons.

  Cornelia Funke

  Blood, Games, Enemy

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• She was poison in a pretty bottle.

  Rachel Caine

  Bottles

  Rachel Caine (2009). “Lord of Misrule: The Morganville Vampires”, p.112, Penguin

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• But it seems there is more than one way to poison a person's heart, and it doesn't require a meal.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Heart, Meals, Way

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Poison Study”, p.179, Harlequin

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• Don't be upset. Don't listen to me. I only meant that I am jealous of a dark, unconscious element, something irrational, unfathomable. I am jealous of your toilet articles, of the drops of sweat on your skin, of the germs in the air you breathe which could get into your blood and poison you. And I am jealous of Komarovsky, as if he were an infectious disease. Someday he will take you away, just as certainly as death will someday separate us. I know this must seem obscure and confused, but I can't say it more clearly. I love you madly, irrationally, infinitely.

  Boris Pasternak

  Confused, Love You, Jealous

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• Some people are little Chernobyls, shimmering with silent, spreading poison: get anywhere near them and every breath you take will wreck you from the inside out.

  Tana French

  People, Wrecks, Littles

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• Empty me of the selfishness inside, every vain ambition and the poison of my pride, and any foolish thing my heart holds to, Lord empty me of me so I can be filled with you.

  Chris Sligh

  Christian, Heart, Ambition

  Song: Empty Me, Album: Running Back to You, 2008

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• I hear you calling and it's needles and pins (And pins) I want to hurt you just to hear you screaming my name Don't want to touch you but you're under my skin (Deep in) I want to kiss you but your lips are venomous poison

  Alice Cooper

  Hurt, Kissing, Names

  Song: Poison

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• In view of my services in Africa, I have the chance of dying by poison. Two generals have brought it with them. It is fatal in three seconds. If I take the poison, none of the usual steps will be taken against my family; that is, against you. They will also leave my staff alone.

  Erwin Rommel

  Taken, Two, Views

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• Jericho Barrons was my poison now.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Jericho, Jericho Barrons, Fever Series

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.757, Dell

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• After the dress rehearsal that afternoon, someone had misplaced the vial of poison, and for lack of better, Romeo would have to commit suicide by eating Tic Tacs.

  Anne Fortier

  Suicide, Afternoon, Rehearsal

  Anne Fortier (2010). “Juliet: A Novel”, p.5, Ballantine Books

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• Stop all this weeping, swallow your pride/ You will not die, its not poison -Tombstone Blues

  Bob Dylan

  Tombstone, Pride, Weeping

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• Even though people about us choose the path of hate and violence and warfare and greed and prejudice, we who are Christ's body must throw off these poisons and let love permeate and cleanse every tissue and cell. Nor are we to allow ourselves to become easily discouraged when love is not always obviously successful or pleasant. Love never quits, even when an enemy has hit you on the right cheek and you have turned the other, and he's also hit that.

  Clarence Jordan

  Love, Jesus, Hate

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