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• A recurring image in the work of the Rossetti circle was that of a woman absorbed in self-contemplation, gazing into a mirror or combing her hair.

  Elizabeth Prettejohn

  Mirrors, Hair, Self

  Elizabeth Prettejohn (1998). “Rossetti and His Circle”, Stewart Tabori & Chang

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• The recurring theme which predisposes people to depression is rejection and lack of self-esteem.

  Richard Winters

  Self Esteem, People, Rejection

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• We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

  Doris Lessing

  Dream, Parent, Use

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• Each time my heart is broken it makes me feel more adventurous (and how the same names keep recurring on that interminable list!), but one of these days there'll be nothing left with which to venture forth. Why should I share you? Why don't you get rid of someone else for a change?

  Frank O'Hara

  Heart, Names, Broken

  Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.197, Univ of California Press

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• Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.

  Martin Buber

  Unique, Men, Tasks

  Martin Buber (2015). “Hasidism and Modern Man”, p.66, Princeton University Press

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• I'm drawn to write about upstate New York in the way in which a dreamer might have recurring dreams. My childhood and girlhood were spent in upstate New York, in the country north of Buffalo and West of Rochester. So this part of New York state is very familiar to me and, with its economic difficulties, has become emblematic of much of American life.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Country, Dream, New York

  Off the Page with Carole Burns, www.washingtonpost.com. May 9, 2006.

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• The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever-recurring song of retaliation.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Song, Men, Ugly

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (2007). “Dream: The Words and Inspiration of Martin Luther King, Jr”, p.91, Blue Mountain Arts, Inc.

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• My mother and I parting company at four years old is a recurring theme; although it's not symbolically necessarily present, it's present in all my relationships.

  Billy Corgan

  Mother, Years, Four

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• The question, O me! so sad, recurring - What good amid these, O me, O life? That you are here - that life exists and identity, that the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.

  Walt Whitman

  Powerful, Dead Poets Society, Play

  Walt Whitman (2016). “Leaves of Grass”, p.261, Xist Publishing

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• What is perceptible to one’s mistrust is the cut-and-dried way that life is divided up and the ready-made form it assumes, the ever-recurring sameness of it, the pre-formations passed down by generation after generation, the ready-made language not only of the tongue but also of the sensations and the feelings.

  Robert Musil

  Cutting, Feelings, Generations

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• I tried to pay some small tribute to A Man and a Woman (1966) with the recurring musical theme.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Men, Musical, Pay

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• I get really restless when I haven't worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me!

  Taylor Swift

  Dream, People, Waiting

  "Taylor Swift: Bomb-Shell in Blue Jeans". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. June 30, 2009.

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• The one recurring theme in my writing, and in my life in general, is confusion. The fact that anytime you think you really know something, you're going to find out you're wrong - that is the rule. The moments where you think you have something figured out, those are the exceptions.

  Conor Oberst

  Writing, Thinking, Confusion

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• I have a recurring nightmare that I wake up in a gutter with nothing. I've had it all my life. That's why I work, I think.

  Kevin McCloud

  Thinking, Gutters, Wake Up

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• I sense the world might be more dreamlike, metaphorical, and poetic than we currently believe--but just as irrational as sympathetic magic when looked at in a typically scientific way. I wouldn't be surprised if poetry--poetry in the broadest sense, in the sense of a world filled with metaphor, rhyme, and recurring patterns, shapes, and designs--is how the world works. The world isn't logical, it's a song.

  David Byrne

  Song, Believe, Design

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• and in that recurring dream, I found myself trapped in some sort of gigantic game of which I was unfamiliar with the rules; lost in a labyrinthine town of dark and damp, criss-crossing streets, ambiguous characters of uncertain authority having no idea of why I was there nor what I had to do, and where the first sign of the beginning of understanding was the wish to die.

  Franz Kafka

  Dream, Character, Dark

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• All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.

  Frank Herbert

  War, Government, Personality

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.60, Penguin

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• I would not trade any of these features for anybody else’s. I wouldn’t trade the small thin-lipped mouth that makes me resemble my nephew. I wouldn’t even trade the acne scar on my right cheek, because that recurring zit spent more time with me in college than any boy ever did.

  Tina Fey

  Boys, College, Nephew

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• The odd thing about recurring dreams is that, no matter how many times you dream the same thing, it always takes you by surprise.

  David Small

  Dream, Odd Things, Matter

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• People who remember court madness through pain, the pain of the perpetually recurring death of their innocence; people who forget court another kind of madness, the madness of the denial of pain and the hatred of innocence; and the world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen forget.

  James A. Baldwin

  Pain, People, Hatred

  "Giovanni's Room". Book by James A. Baldwin, 1956.

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• Neither loss of father, nor loss of mother, dear as she was to Mr Thornton, could have poisoned the remembrance of the weeks, the days, the hours, when a walk of two miles, every step of which was pleasant, as it brought him nearer and nearer to her, took him to her sweet presence - every step of which was rich, as each recurring moment that bore him away from her made him recal some fresh grace in her demeanour, or pleasant pungency in her character.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Mother, Sweet, Father

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1236, Delphi Classics

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• I was always prepared for my Fringe journey to end immediately. I had only signed up for a guest role but they kept bringing me back in the third season as a recurring character. So pretty much every time I went to film a 'Fringe' episode I kind of said goodbye to the show, but then they kept bringing me back.

  Seth Gabel

  Goodbye, Character, Journey

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A backlash against women's rights is nothing new. Indeed it's a recurring phenomenon: it returns every time women begin to make some headway towards equality, a seemingly inevitable early frost to the brief flowerings of feminism.

  Susan Faludi

  Rights, Justice, Feminism

  1992 Backlash (UK edn), ch.3,'Backlashes Then and Now'.

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• I have this recurring nightmare where I'm lost in a strange forest, and my only hope is your sense of direction. Enough to give a fellow the sweats, it is.

  Gerald Morris

  Sweat, Giving, Forests

  Gerald Morris (2008). “The Savage Damsel and the Dwarf”, p.190, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The useless search of philosophers for a cause of the universe is a regressus in infinitum (a stepping backwards into the infinite) and resembles climbing up an endless ladder, the recurring question as to the cause of the cause rendering the attainment of a final goal impossible.

  Ludwig Buchner

  Climbing, Goal, Finals

  Ludwig Büchner (1884). “Force and Matter: Or, Principles of the Natural Order of the Universe. With a System of Morality Based Thereon”

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