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• He stood beneath the white tower, and looked up at it with that mournful expression which his face always carried in repose: for one moment he thought of climbing up its cracked and broken stone, and then from its summit screaming down at the silent city as a child might scream at a chained animal.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Children, Animal, Climbing

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• Thinking about something is like picking up a stone when taking a walk, either while skipping rocks on the beach, for example, or looking for a way to shatter the glass doors of a museum. When you think about something, it adds a bit of weight to your walk, and as you think about more and more things you are liable to feel heavier and heavier, until you are so burdened you cannot take any further steps, and can only sit and stare at the gentle movements of the ocean waves or security guards, thinking too hard bout too many things to do anything else.

  Daniel Handler

  Life, Beach, Ocean

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• The days aren't discarded or collected, they are bees that burned with sweetness or maddened the sting: the struggle continues, the journeys go and come between honey and pain. No, the net of years doesn't unweave: there is no net. They don't fall drop by drop from a river: there is no river. Sleep doesn't divide life into halves, or action, or silence, or honor: life is like a stone, a single motion, a lonesome bonfire reflected on the leaves, an arrow, only one, slow or swift, a metal that climbs or descends burning in your bones.

  Pablo Neruda

  Pain, Struggle, Fall

  Pablo Neruda (1984). “Still Another Day”, Port Townsend : Copper Canyon Press

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• We the mortals touch the metals, the wind, the ocean shores, the stones, knowing they will go on, inert or burning, and I was discovering, naming all the these things: it was my destiny to love and say goodbye.

  Pablo Neruda

  Goodbye, Ocean, Destiny

  Pablo Neruda (1984). “Still Another Day”, Port Townsend : Copper Canyon Press

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• Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Life, Motivational, Success

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• ...you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair. In the end it’s all a question of balance.

  Rohinton Mistry

  Balance, Despair, Use

  Rohinton Mistry (2010). “A Fine Balance”, p.328, Vintage

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• may came home with a smooth round stone as small as a world and as large as alone.

  e. e. cummings

  Travel, Home, World

  E. E. Cummings (1994). “Selected Poems”, p.6, W. W. Norton & Company

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• When stuck in the river, it is best to dive and swim to the bank yourself before someone drops a large stone on your chest in an attempt to hoosh you there.

  A. A. Milne

  Rivers, Swim, Stuck

  Joan Powers, A. A. Milne (1996). “Eeyore's Gloomy Little Instruction Book”, Dutton Childrens Books

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• A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief, And the dry stone no sound of water. Only There is shadow under this red rock, (Come in under the shadow of this red rock), And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you; I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

  T. S. Eliot

  Morning, Fear, Rocks

  The Waste Land l. 25 (1922)

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• Hearts with one purpose alone/Through summer and winter seem/Enchanted to a stone/To trouble the living stream.

  William Butler Yeats

  Summer, Heart, Winter

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.153, Wordsworth Editions

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• The man was hit in one eye by a stone, and that eye turned inward so that it looked into his mind, and he died of what he saw there

  Patricia A. McKillip

  Eye, Men, Mind

  Patricia A. McKillip (2017). “The Forgotten Beasts of Eld”, p.76, Tachyon Publications

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• And here, over the portals of my fort, I shall cut in the stone the word which is to be my beacon and my banner. The word which will not die should we all perish in battle. The word which can never die on this earth, for it is the heart of it and the meaning and the glory. The sacred word: EGO

  Ayn Rand

  Heart, Cutting, Ego

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Anthem”, p.51, Xist Publishing

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• Or have I passed my time in pouring words like water into empty sieves, rolling a stone up a hill and then down again, trying to prove an argument in the teeth of facts, and looking for causes in the dark, and not finding them?

  William Hazlitt

  Dark, Water, Trying

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1100, Delphi Classics

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• Now her eyes meet mine like green lightning-they are green, these eyes of hers, whose power is so indescribable-green, but as are precious stones, or deep unfathomable mountain lakes.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Eye, Lakes, Precious Stones

  Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch, Emil Marriot (1989). “Venus in Furs: A Novel ; Letters of Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch and Emilie Mataja”

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• How happy is the little stone That rambles in the road alone, And doesn't care about careers, And exigencies never fears; Whose coat of elemental brown A passing universe put on; And independent as the sun, Associates or glows alone, Fulfilling absolute decree In casual simplicity.

  Emily Dickinson

  Independent, Careers, Simplicity

  Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.169, First Avenue Editions

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• Your hand is a warm stone I hold between two words.

  Margaret Atwood

  Hands, Two, Warm

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “Selected Poems II: 1976 - 1986”, p.64, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• That was the thing about words, they were clear and specific-chair, eye, stone- but when you talked about feelings, words were too stiff, they were this and not that, they couldn't include all the meanings. In defining, they always left something out.

  Janet Fitch

  Eye, Feelings, Oleanders

  Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.185, Hachette UK

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• One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.

  Oscar Wilde

  Witty, Heart, Laughing

  Quoted in Letters to the Sphinx from Oscar Wilde (1930)

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• It brings joy in sorrow, victory in battle, light to darkness, life to the dead. That is the power of the blood-red jewel which men honor with the name "The Philosopher's Stone.

  Hiromu Arakawa

  Men, Light, Blood

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• And what of the dead? They lie without shoes in the stone boats. They are more like stone than the sea would be if it stopped. They refuse to be blessed, throat, eye and knucklebone.

  Anne Sexton

  Lying, Blessed, Eye

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.43, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm.

  Alice Walker

  Contradiction, Outcast, Darling

  Alice Walker (2012). “Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism”, p.137, Ballantine Books

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• Inside the peach, there is a stone.

  Margaret Atwood

  Peaches

  Margaret Atwood (2011). “Alias Grace: A Novel”, p.69, Anchor

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• Throw a stone into the stream and the ripples that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Influence, Type

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson (1904). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: With a Biographical Introduction and Notes”

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• I closed my eyes, put my right hand on top of the book, and passed it lightly across the cover. It was cool and smooth like a stone from the bottom of the brook, and it stilled me. A whole other world is inside there, I thought to myself, and that's where I want to be.

  Katherine Hannigan

  Book, Eye, Hands

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• Who's this—alone with stone and sky? It's only my old dog and I— It's only him; it's only me; Alone with stone and grass and tree. What share we most—we two together? Smells, and awareness of the weather. What is it makes us more than dust? My trust in him; in me his trust.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  Dog, Dust, Sky

  Siegfried Sassoon (1956). “Sequences”

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