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• Your own self, your personality and existence are reflected within the mind of each of the people whom you meet, ... into a likeness, a caricature of yourself, which still lives on and appears to be, in some way, the truth about you. Even a flattering picture is... a lie.

  Isak Dinesen

  Lying, Self, People

  Isak Dinesen (2011). “Seven Gothic Tales”, p.166, Vintage

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• Among the guitarists, Wes Montgomery is fantastic. He's always good to let you know what the art form is all about. It's the same still life that everybody is painting, but in comes Wes Montgomery, and it's right there!

  Bill Cosby

  Art, Guitar, Painting

  "Bill Cosby: If You Could Hear It, You'd Smile". Interview with Victor L. Schermer, www.allaboutjazz.com. June 2, 2010.

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• I've found that photographs from different genres can be extraordinarily generous with each other. I started out photographing myself in a landscape, moved on to landscapes with and without other people, and then onto buildings, still lives, portraits, and body parts in rooms. If certain aspects of my production are getting more attention right now I think it is directly linked to a general absence of dreamed bodies in contemporary art. Viewers who mainly follow fashion have most likely not noticed this lack.

  Torbjørn Rødland

  Fashion, Art, Thinking

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• Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Life, Dust, Names

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• Deep within every human being there still lives the anxiety over the possibility of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the millions and millions in this enormous household. One keeps this anxiety at a distance by looking at the many round about who are related to him as kin and friends, but the anxiety is still there, nevertheless, and one hardly dares think of how he would feel if all this were taken away.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Distance, Taken, Thinking

  "Soren Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers, vol. 1". Book by Søren Kierkegaard, Indiana University Press, Journals VII 1A 363, p. 40, 1967.

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• Funny how we think of romance as always involving two, when the romance of solitude can be ever so much more delicious and intense.

  Tom Robbins

  Thinking, Two, Romance

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.257, Bantam

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• On Christ, and what he has done, my soul hangs for time and eternity. And if your soul also hangs there, it will be saved as surely as mine shall be. And if you are lost trusting in Christ, I will be lost with you and will go to hell with you. I must do so, for I have nothing else to rely upon but the fact that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, lived, died, was buried, rose again, went to heaven, and still lives and pleads for sinners at the right hand of God.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Son, Hands

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• Is life worth living?
  Yes, so long as there is wrong to right.
  So long as faith with freedom reigns and loyal hope survives,
  And gracious charity remains to leaven lowly lives;
  While there is only one untrodden tract for intellect or will,
  And men are free to think and act,
  Life is worth living still.

  Alfred Austin

  Life, Men, Thinking

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• We must do jobs we detest because we are part of an organized society, and if everyone did what they wanted to do, the world would come to a standstill.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Jobs, Inspiration

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• From every pulpit in the land it needs to be thundered forth that God still lives, that God still observes, ... still reigns. Faith is now in the crucible, it is being tested by fire, and there is no fixed... resting place for the heart and mind but in the Throne of God. What is needed now, as never before, is a full, positive, constructive setting forth of the Godhood of God.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Faith, Heart, Fire

  Arthur W. Pink (2008). “Sovereignty of God”, p.17, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• There was a still life on Billy's bedside table-two pills, an ashtray with three lipstick-stained cigarettes in it, one cigarette still burning, and a glass of water. The water was dead. So it goes. Air was trying to get out of the dead water. Bubbles were clinging to the walls of the glass, too weak to climb out.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Wall, Glasses, Air

  KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

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• The ability to portray people in still life and in motion requires the highest measure of intuition and talent.

  Albert Einstein

  People, Intuition, Talent

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• If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still

  Samuel Johnson

  Thinking, Life And Death, Life Death

  Samuel Johnson, Robert ARMITAGE (1850). “Doctor Johnson: his religious life and his death. By the author of “Dr. Hookwell,” etc. [Robert Armitage].”, p.478

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• For me, the creation of a photograph is experienced as a heightened emotional response, most akin to poetry and music, each image the culmination of a compelling impulse I cannot deny. Whether working with a human figure or a still life, I am deeply aware of my spiritual connection with it. In my life, as in my work, I am motivated by a great yearning for balance and harmony beyond the realm of human experience, reaching for the essence of oneness with the Universe.

  Ruth Bernhard

  Spiritual, Photography, Emotional

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• Five years from the date of the attack that changed our world, we've come back to remember the valor of those we lost-those who innocently went to work that day and the brave souls who went in after them. We have also come to be ever mindful of the courage of those who grieve for them, and the light that still lives in their hearts.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Powerful, Heart, Grieving

  "Your World Today", www.cnn.com. September 11, 2006.

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• Awake! thou that sleepest, arise from the dead! The Lord still lives today. His power has never abated. His Word has never changed. The things He did in Bible days, He still lives to do today. Not a burden is there He cannot bear nor a fetter He cannot break.

  Aimee Semple McPherson

  Live For Today, Bears, Christianity

  Aimee Semple McPherson (2009). “This is That: Personal Experiences Sermons and Writings of Aimee Semple McPherson”, p.677, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• There are two levels to your pain: the pain that you create now, and the pain from the past that still lives on in your mind and body. Ceasing to create pain in the present and dissolving past pain - this is what I want to talk about now.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Pain, Past, Thinking

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.32, New World Library

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• My doom is, I love thee still.
  Let no man dream but that I love thee still.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Dream, Men

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2012). “Idylls of the King”, p.243, Courier Corporation

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• When love leaves the world, all hearts are still. Tell them of my love and tell them of my pain and tell them of my hope, which still lives. For this is all I have and all I am and all I ask.

  Stephen King

  Life, Hope, Pain

  Stephen King, Michael Whelan (2004). “The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower”, p.334, Simon and Schuster

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• It may be that some little root of the sacred tree still lives. Nourish it then, that it may leaf and bloom and fill with singing birds.

  Black Elk

  Depression, Roots, Bird

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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• I can see where creation often stops while the body still lives and often does not care to. the death of life before life dies.

  Charles Bukowski

  Doe, Body, Care

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• See, the same old Ella still lives." He grins... "She just needed a little push out."... "No, she doesn't. She's gone forever." "Try all you want, but I'm bringing her back.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Forever, Trying, Gone

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• Yet a part of you still believes you can fight and survive no matter what your mind knows. It's not so strange. Where there's still life, there's still hope. What happens is up to God.

  Louis Zamperini

  Believe, Fighting, Mind

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• It's your worst sin saving your f***ing life; It's the devil's knife carving holes into your soul so angels have a way to make their way inside; Life doesn't rhyme. Still, life is poetry, not math. The whole world's a stage, but the stage is a meditation mat. You tilt your head back; you breathe. when your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and you pray for rain.

  Andrea Gibson

  Rain, Heart, Angel

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• Fantasy allows you bend the world and the situation to more clearly focus on the moral aspects of what's happening. In fantasy you can distill life down to the essence of your story.

  Terry Goodkind

  Essence, Focus, Stories

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