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• But when the door shuts on us, all that vanishes. The shell-like covering which our souls have excreted to house themselves, to make for themselves a shape distinct from others, is broken, and there is left of all these wrinkles and roughnesses a central oyster of perceptiveness, an enormous eye. How beautiful a street is in winter!

  Virginia Woolf

  Beautiful, Eye, Winter

  Virginia Woolf (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.303, OUP Oxford

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• Cell and tissue, shell and bone, leaf and flower, are so many portions of matter, and it is in obedience to the laws of physics that their particles have been moved, moulded and conformed. They are no exceptions to the rule that God always geometrizes. Their problems of form are in the first instance mathematical problems, their problems of growth are essentially physical problems, and the morphologist is, ipso facto, a student of physical science.

  D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

  Flower, Math, Law

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• There's part of me that's grateful for the delusion, because it takes a very hard shell to get started as an actor, and I don't have a very hard shell.

  Zoe Kazan

  Grateful, Actors, Delusion

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You want to know yourself. For this keep steadily in the focus of consciousness, the only clue you have: your certainty of being. Be with it, play with it, ponder over it, delve deeply into it, till the shell of ignorance breaks open and you emerge into the realm of reality.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Ignorance, Reality, Play

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• Shattered dreams, worthless years, here I am encased in a hollow shell. Life began, then was done, now I stare into a cold and empty well.

  Stevie Wonder

  Dream, Sadness, Years

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• Atoms have a nucleus, made of protons and neutrons bound together. Around this nucleus shells of electrons spin, and each shell is either full or trying to get full, to balance with the number of protons-to balance the number of positive and negative charges. An atom is like a human heart, you see.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Heart, Science, Numbers

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• What is a movie star? It is an illusion. It was everything I ever wanted to be, but it became a kind of shell, non? It was what made me famous and got me women. But it wasn't real.

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Stars, Real, Kind

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

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• Right after the 9/11 attacks I was living near Oakland in California with a buddy who had also grown up in the skate/punk scene of the 80s. We were so shell-shocked from the attacks that we sort of regressed into this childlike mode of filling our apartment with '80s memorabilia. We got all of our favorite skateboard decks off of eBay, bought a bunch of old independent trucks, we got a credit card so that we could buy 720 off of a videogame vendor, we sat around listening to T.S.O.L. and The Misfits playing 720 and pretending that we were still living in our childhood.

  Rick Remender

  Independent, Ebay, Oakland

  Source: www.ign.com

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• I count absolutely no chickens before they're hatched. In fact, I assume they're all dead in their shells, inside their eggs.

  Jay Baruchel

  Eggs, Facts, Assuming

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What you discover about life’s shell game is that it’s hardest to follow the pea when you’re the pea.

  Robert Breault

  Funny Life, Games, Peas

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• From the moment we are born, the world tends to have a box already built for us to fit inside. Our umbilical cord never seems to be severed; we only find new needs to fill. If we disconnected and severed our attachments, would we shatter our confinements and expand beyond our shell? Would the world look different? Would we recognize ourselves? Are we the box that we are inside, and to be authentically 'un-contained' would we still be able to exist? This is the irony of containment. As long as we don't push on the walls of our surroundings, we may never know how strong we really are.

  Paige Bradley

  Strong, Wall, Attachment

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• I do not wonder at a snowflake, a shell, a summer landscape, or the glory of the stars; but at the necessity of beauty under which the universe lies.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Summer, Stars, Lying

  Ralph Waldo, Emerson, (2013). “Nature - Conduct of Life”, p.163, Read Books Ltd

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• Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he has seen and sucked dry. Seen and sucked dry, you know: Venus de Milo, the Rhine or the Coliseum: swallowed like so many clams, and left the shells.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Travel, Venus De Milo, Society

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8209, Delphi Classics

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• The South is the land of the sustained sibilant. Everywhere, for the appreciative visitor, the letter "s" insinuates itself in the scene: in the sound of sea and sand, in the singing shell, in the heat of sun and sky, in the sultriness of the gentle hours, in the siesta, in the stir of birds and insects.

  E. B. White

  Sea, Land, Sky

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• Israel has the right to shell Palestinian hospitals and schools out of self defense.

  Elizabeth Warren

  School, Israel, Self

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• There was something about Jace, though, that made her want to push him, crack that shell of cynicism and make him admit her believed something, felt something, cared about anythinng at all.

  Cassandra Clare

  Cracks, Want, Cynicism

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.248, Simon and Schuster

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• I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. We have definitely adopted the position at the Peace Conference of arguing in favour of the retention of gas as a permanent method of warfare. It is sheer affectation to lacerate a man with the poisonous fragment of a bursting shell and to boggle at making his eyes water by means of lachrymatory gas.

  Winston Churchill

  Mean, Eye, Men

  Winston Churchill's statement as President of the Air Council in War Office Departmental Minute (the original document is in the collection of Churchill Papers 16/16 at the Churchill Archives Centre in Cambridge), May 12, 1919.

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• Dislodging a green nut from it's shell is almost impossible, but let it dry and the lightest tap will do it.

  Ramakrishna

  Nuts, Dry, Green

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• England Their England by AG Macdonell which was written in the thirties and is about a young Scotsman who's got shell shocked during the First World War… I love it.

  Ian Hislop

  War, World, Firsts

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• All things of the sea belong to Venus; pearls and
  shells and alchemists' gold and kelp and the riggish
  smell of neap tides, the inshore green, and purple
  further out and the joy of distances and the roar of
  falling masonry, all these are hers, but she doesn't
  come out of the sea for all of us.

  John Cheever

  Distance, Fall, Sea

  John Cheever, Blake Bailey (2009). “John Cheever: Complete Novels”

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• Marriage should, I think, always be a little bit hard and new and strange. It should be breaking your shell and going into another world, and a bigger one.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Thinking, World, Littles

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• A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; while we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell. We live a while in Boston, and then a while in New York, and then, perhaps, turn up at Cincinnati. Scarcely any body with us is living where they expect to live and die. The man that dies in the house he was born in is a wonder. There is something pleasant in the permanence and repose of the English family estate, which we, in America, know very little of.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  New York, Children, Men

  MRS. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE (1854). “`SUNNY MEMORIES OF FOREIGN LANDS”, p.31

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• The task is not primarily to have a story, but to penetrate the story, to discard the elements of it that are merely shell, or husk, that give apparent form to the story, but actually obscure the essence. In other words, the problem is to transcend the givens of a narrative.

  Deborah Eisenberg

  Essence, Giving, Tasks

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• There was the same dazzling red glare. The sea gasped for air with each shallow, stifled wave that broke on the sand. ...with every blade of light that flashed off the sand, from a bleached shell or a peice of broken glass, my jaws tightened. I walked for a long time.

  Albert Camus

  Sea, Glasses, Light

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• Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Life, Art, Past

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table”, p.98, Reprint Services Corporation

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