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• My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Beach, Ocean, Heart

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Favorite Poems”, p.45, Courier Corporation

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• Now I'm fortunate to have a good band in CA, and play many solo gigs as well. My point is that I stopped playing in bands and played solo for four years, to get back into the groove and pulse of writing and singing and who I am on stage.

  Arthur Godfrey

  Writing, Who I Am, Years

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• I'm floating inside my skin. I could go on floating like this for days. Right now, the real world with its heartbreak and disappointments is just a pulse against the protective membrane we've drunk ourselves into. It's somewhere outside us, waiting." A Great and Terrible Beauty, Page 141, by

  Libba Bray

  Disappointment, Real, Drunk

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.126, Delacorte Press

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• A weak but steady throb lay beneath Kev's searching fingertips. Win's heartbeat...the pulse that sustained his universe.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Soulmate, Winning, Heartbeat

  Lisa Kleypas (2008). “Seduce Me at Sunrise”, p.56, Macmillan

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• It means black kitten," I said with my pulse almost even again. Ares studied me. "And you're ok with them calling you their black kitten?" "They're wererats, Ares," I said. He frowned at me. "They're not calling me their little black rat. Think it through.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Mean, Thinking, Black

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• Time pulses from the afternoon like blood from a serious wound.

  Hilma Wolitzer

  Time, Blood, Afternoon

  Hilma Wolitzer (2013). “In the Palomar Arms: A Novel”, p.8, Open Road Media

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• I had learnt to seek intensity rather than happiness, not joys and prosperity but more of life, a concentrated sense of life, a strengthened feeling of existence, fullness and concentration of pulse, energy, growth, flowering, beyond the image of happiness or unhappiness.

  Nina Berberova

  Passion, Joy, Feelings

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• Ah, life, life, how madly, how cruelly it raced along your pulses!

  Martha Ostenso

  Life

  Martha Ostenso (1929). “The Young May Moon”

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• I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's sociology as well as music, which is in keeping with the tradition of black music in America.

  Quincy Jones

  America, Long, Hip Hop

  "Q&A with Quincy Jones". Interview with Robert Hilburn, articles.latimes.com. April 18, 1997.

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• to give life to sculpture I found it must have a pulse, a breathing quality that could change in a flash, and it must never appear static, hard, or unrevealing. All these demands formed themslves in my thoughts, and became like an endless obsession.

  Malvina Hoffman

  Art, Breathing, Giving

  Malvina Hoffman (1965). “Yesterday is Tomorrow: A Personal History”, New York : Crown Publishers

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• Time was away and somewhere else,
  There were two glasses and two chairs
  And two people with one pulse.

  Louis MacNeice

  Love, Glasses, Somewhere Else

  'Meeting Point'

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• And so you have a life that you are living only now, now and now and now, gone before you can speak of it, and you must be thankful for living day by day, moment by moment a life in the breath and pulse and living light of the present

  Wendell Berry

  Light, Being Thankful, Gone

  Wendell Berry (2005). “Hannah Coulter: A Novel”, p.148, Counterpoint Press

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• Let the man stand on his feet. Let religion cease to be occasional; and the pulses of thought that go to the borders of the universe, let them proceed from the bosom of the Household.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Feet, Borders

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.109, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

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• I think people often underestimate the power of consumers. But I equally say that consumers are like shock troops: You can't keep them agitated and motivated and committed and active forever. There are pulses where they switch on to a particular issue, and just inevitably they switch off.

  John Elkington

  Thinking, Issues, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I knew that I had seen, had seen at last
  That girl my unremembering nights hold fast
  Or else my dreams that fly
  If I should rub an eye,
  And yet in flying fling into my meat
  A crazy juice that makes the pulses beat.

  William Butler Yeats

  Girl, Dream, Crazy

  William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.233, Hayes Barton Press

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• Thou that hast given so much to me give me one thing more, a grateful heart: not thankful when it pleaseth me, as if Thy blessings had spare days, but such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.

  George Herbert

  Thanksgiving, Thankful, Gratitude

  George Herbert (1850). “Beauties of George Herbert: with Selections from “The Synagogue.””, p.14

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• A book is a part of life, a manifestation of life, just as much as a tree or a horse or a star. It obeys its own rhythms, its own laws, whether it be a novel, a play, or a diary. The deep, hidden rhythm of life is always there - that of the pulse, the heart beat.

  Henry Miller

  Horse, Stars, Reading

  Henry Miller (1961). “The Cosmological Eye”, p.273, New Directions Publishing

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• Creation sleeps! 'T is as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause,- An awful pause! prophetic of her end.

  Edward Young

  Life, Nature, Sleep

  Edward Young, John Doran, James Nichols (1854). “The Complete Works, Poetry and Prose of the Rev. Edward Young, LL.D.: Revised and Collated with the Earliest Editions. To which is Prefixed A Life of the Author”, p.3

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• I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind, Am urged by your propinquity to find Your person fair, and feel a certain zest To bear your body's weight upon my breast; So subtly is the fume of life designed, To clarify the pulse and cloud the mind, And leave me once again undone, possessed. Think not for this, however, the poor treason Of my stout blood against my staggering brain, I shall remember you with love, or season My scorn with pity, - let me make it plain: I find this frenzy insufficient reason For conversation when we meet again.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Thinking, Clouds, Remember You

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.79, Library of America

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• It is not learning we need at all. Individuals need learning but the culture needs something else, the pulse of light on the sea, the warm urge of huddling together to keep out the cold. We need empathy, we need the eyes that still can weep.

  Lydia Millet

  Eye, Light, Sea

  Lydia Millet (2005). “Oh Pure and Radiant Heart”, p.266, Soft Skull Press

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• Mere words will not do. They must convey the color, charm, and pulse of life. They must have a private twinkle of wit in them that makes a good-natured noise like laughter through the keyhole of the reader's mind.

  Corra May Harris

  Laughter, Color, Mind

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• one trouble with all the churches is that they have too many incurable saints in them, men and women who pray too much and do too little, who cannot forget their own selfish salvation enough to look after other people's without feeling their own spiritual pulse all the time they are doing it. Of late I've sometimes suspected that it is nearly as debilitating to stay in the church all the time as it would be to stay in a hospital all the time.

  Corra May Harris

  Spiritual, Selfish, Men

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• In the heat of her hands I thought, This is the campfire that mocks the sun. This place will warm me, feed me and care for me. I will hold on to this pulse against other rhythms. The world will come and go in the tide of a day but here is her hand with my future in its palm.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Hands, World, Care

  Jeanette Winterson (2013). “Written On The Body”, p.51, Random House

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• Time passes. Even when it seems impossible. Even when each tick of the second hand aches like the pulse of blood behind a bruise. It passes unevenly, in strange lurches and dragging lulls, but pass it does. Even for me.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Blood, Hands, Doe

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “New Moon”, p.60, Hachette UK

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• God's beneficence streams out from the morning sun, and his love looks down upon us from the starry eyes of midnight. It is his solicitude that wraps us in the air, and the pressure of his hand, so to speak, that keeps our pulses beating. O! it is a great thing to realize that the Divine Power is always working; that nature, in every valve and every artery, is full of the presence of God.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  God, Morning, Eye

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