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• Never trust a man who can dance.

  E. L. James

  Men, Fifty, Never Trust

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• My inner goddess is doing the merengue with some salsa moves.

  John Green

  Moving, Fifty, Goddess

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• I see my subject as an orchestration of shapes, patterns, shade, cast shadows, tonal groupings and aerial perspective.

  Bill Luff

  Perspective, Shadow, Shapes

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• Is it possible for the rose to say, "I will give my fragrance to the good people who smell me, but I will withhold it from the bad?" Or is it possible for the lamp to say, "I will give my light to the good people in this room, but I will withhold it from the evil people"? Or can a tree say, "I'll give my shade to the good people who rest under me, but I will withhold it from the bad"? These are images of what love is about.

  Anthony de Mello

  Love Is, Light, Evil People

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.61, Image

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• My favorite colors come from the shades of local earth.  Dig in the ground and you'll find so many layers of color-amazing yellows, sand, browns, black, beige.

  Axel

  Color, Black, Earth

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• The eye is complicated. It mixes the colors [it sees] for you ... The painter must unmix them and lay them on again shade by shade, and then the eye of the beholder takes over and mixes them again.

  Elizabeth Borton de Trevino

  Art, Eye, Color

  Elizabeth Borton de Treviño, Prentice Hall PTR, Prentice-Hall, inc (2000). “I, Juan de Pareja”

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• Not forever does the bulbul sing In balmy shades of bowers, Not forever lasts the spring Nor ever blossom the flowers. Not forever reigneth joy, Sets the sun on days of bliss, Friendships not forever last, They know not life, who know not this.

  Khushwant Singh

  Spring, Flower, Joy

  Khushwant Singh, Nandini Mehta (1993). “Not a nice man to know: the best of Khushwant Singh”

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• These poems are a mental sketch as formed / Passage by passage of light and shade / Maintained and preserved to this point / Brought together in paper and mineral ink

  Kenji Miyazawa

  Light, Poetry, Together

  Kenji Miyazawa (2007). “Strong in the Rain: Selected Poems”, Bloodaxe Books Limited

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• Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart.

  Kevyn Aucoin

  Funny, Life, Beauty

  Kerry Diamond, Kevyn Aucoin (2004). “Kevyn Aucoin a Beautiful Life: The Success, Struggles, and Beauty Secrets of a Legendary Makeup Artist”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

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• A whole lifetime was too short to bring out, the full flavour; to extract every ounce of pleasure, every shade of meaning.

  Virginia Woolf

  Life, Too Short, Pleasure

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.903, Delphi Classics

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• His experience, there was darkness everywhere human beings gathered. The way of the world. Perfection was a surface thing. The epidermis. Cut a few layers deep, you begin to see some darker shades. Cut to the bone - pitch black.

  Blake Crouch

  Halloween, Cutting, Perfection

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• I'm leaving my sorrows and all my memories behind to see what I find, somewhere in the shade near the sound of a sweet singing river, somewhere in the sun where the mountains make love to the sky.

  John Denver

  Inspirational, Life, Happy

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• He [the artist] ought to have 'these powerful organs of expression' - colour and chiaroscuro - entirely at his command, that he may use them in every possible form, as well as that he may do with the most perfect freedom; therefore, whether he wishes to make the subject of a joyous, solemn, or meditative character, by flinging over it the cheerful aspect which the sun bestows, by a proper disposition of shade, or by the appearances that beautify its arising or its setting, a true "General Effect" should never be lost sight of.

  John Constable

  Powerful, Character, Artist

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• A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Rain, Walden Pond, Grass

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.324, Penguin

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• One is but a shade of the other.

  Danielle Trussoni

  Danielle Trussoni (2010). “Angelology: A Novel”, p.81, Penguin

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• Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

  Voltaire

  Law, Tyrants, Support

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• One candle is enough. Its gentle light will be more suitable, will be more gracious when the Shades arrive, the Shades of Love.

  C.P. Cavafy

  Light, Enough, Gentle

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• Must I thus leave thee, Paradise?-thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades?

  John Milton

  Happiness, Paradise, Soil

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.478

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• Our life is our own to-day, to-morrow you will be dust, a shade, and a tale that is told. Live mindful of death; the hour flies.

  Aulus Persius Flaccus

  Dust, Life Is, Hours

  "The Satires". Book by Aulus Persius Flaccus, Satire V, line 151,

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• If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Inspirational, Teacher, Teaching

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• But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Life, Friendship, Happiness

  B. L. Rayner, Thomas Jefferson (1834). “Life of Thomas Jefferson: with selections from the most valuable portions of his voluminious and unrivalled private correspondence : with portrait”, p.423

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• Theory is continually the precursor of truth; we must pass through the twilight and its shade, to arrive at the full and perfect day.

  James Douglas, Lord of Douglas

  Truth, Twilight, Perfect Days

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• Your life is a blank, and you're barely a shade across it.

  Tim Lebbon

  Life Is, Blank

  Tim Lebbon (2008). “Fallen”, p.120, Spectra

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• Watchful are the Gods of all Hands with slaughter stained. The black Furies wait, and when a man Has grown by luck, not justice, great, With sudden overturn of chance They wear him to a shade, and, cast Down to perdition, who shall save him?

  Aeschylus

  Men, Hands, Justice

  Aeschylus (2004). “The Oresteia: Agamemnon, Choephoroe, Eumenides”, Everyman's Library

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• My family has always had Cape Verdean pride but I don't think it was something the kids in the family necessarily understood. However, I was very conscious of the fact that both sides of my family were drastically different and my aunts, cousins, and uncles varied in different shades of brown.

  Aeriel Miranda

  Cousin, Uncles, Kids

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