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She regretted having taken his hand, she wanted to get away from there as soon as possible, to hide her shame, never again to see that man who had witnessed all that was most sordid in her, and who nevertheless continued to treat her with such tenderness. But again she remembered Mari's words: She didn't need to explain her life to anyone, not even to the young man standing before her.

Paulo Coelho

Taken, Men, Hands

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An increase of tenderness always ended by boiling over and turning to indignation. He was at the point where we seek to adopt a course, and to accept what tears us apart.

Victor Hugo

Tears, Boiling Over, Accepting

Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1987). “Les misérables”, Dutton Adult

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Today, with the abundance of books available, it is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read. … Feed only on the best. As John Wesley’s mother counseled him: ‘Avoid whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, takes off your relish for spiritual things, … increases the authority of the body over the mind.

Ezra Taft Benson

Mother, Spiritual, Book

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They dream of men with gentle hands, eloquent with tenderness, fingers that brushed along a cheek, that outlined open lips in the lovers' braille. Hands that sculpted sweetness from sullen flesh, that traced breast and ignited hips, opening, kneading. Flesh becomes bread in the heat of those hands, braided and rising.

Janet Fitch

Dream, Men, Hands

Janet Fitch (2002). “White Oleander”, Large Print Press

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Think on it, Chani: the princess will have the name, yet she'll live as less than a concubine - never to know a moment of tenderness from the man to whom she's bound. While we, Chani, we who carry the name of concubine - history will call us wives.

Frank Herbert

Princess, Men, Thinking

Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.421, Penguin

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Some attribute had departed from her, the permanence of which had been essential to keep her a woman. Such is frequently the fate, and such the stern development, of the feminine character and person, when the woman has encountered, and lived through, an experience of peculiar severity. If she be all tenderness, she will die. If she survive, the tenderness will either be crushed out of her, or—and the outward semblance is the same—crushed so deeply into her heart that it can never show itself more.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Heart, Character, Fate

Nathaniel Hawthorne (2013). “The Scarlet Letter (Annotated And Illustrated Edition)”, p.178, Jazzybee Verlag

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Those doves below, the ones utterly cared for, never endangered ones, cannot know tenderness.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Dove, Knows

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Even while living in the world, the heart of Mary was so filled with motherly tenderness and compassion for men that no-one ever suffered so much for their own pains, as Mary suffered for the pains of her children.

St. Jerome

Religious, Children, Pain

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The love of woman is a precious treasure. Tenderness has no deeper source, devotion no purer shrine, sacrifice no more saintlike abnegation.

Germain-Francois Poullain de Saint-Foix

Sacrifice, Treasure, Shrines

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After their encounter on the approach to Jupiter, there would aways be a secret bond between them---not of love, but of tenderness, which is often more enduring.

Arthur C. Clarke

Relationship, Secret, Encounters

Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “2010: Odyssey Two”, p.163, RosettaBooks

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Krys Lee has written a book of unforgettable stories, each one building on the other to create a complex, moving portrait of contemporary Korea and its diaspora. She guides us surely through the fallout of war, immigration, and financial crisis, always alert to the possibility of tenderness, transcendence, and even humor along the way. Lee is a writer who really understands loneliness, but her voice is so appealing, and her perceptions so wise, that we feel all the less lonely for knowing her characters and experiencing their lives.

Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

Wise, Lonely, War

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What lurking temptations to forbidden tenderness find their finding-places in a woman's dressing-gown, when she is alone in her room at night!

Wilkie Collins

Night, Temptation, Gowns

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Though no participator in the joy of more vehement sport, I have a pleasure that I cannot reconcile to my abstract notions of the tenderness due to dumb creatures in the tranquil cruelty of angling. I can only palliate the wanton destructiveness of my amusement by trying to assure myself that my pleasure does not spring from the success of the treachery I practise toward a poor little fish, but rather from that innocent revelry in the luxuriance of summer life which only anglers enjoy to the utmost.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Summer, Sports, Spring

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I don't think God is a gender. He presents himself as a father but he comes to us with the tenderness of a mother. In some of the parables, he is the housewife who cleans the house looking for the lost coin.

Max Lucado

Mother, Father, Thinking

"Max Lucado, Christian Author, Answers Twitter Followers’ Questions". Religion News Service Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 19, 2012.

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Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry.

Robert Hass

Afternoon, Evening, Numinous

"Meditation at Lagunitas" l. 28 (1979)

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Physical beauty is passing - a transitory possession - but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart - I have all these things - aren't taken away but grow! Increase with the years!

Tennessee Williams

Taken, Heart, Years

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The weather turned. Her skin seemed to grow a million extra pores, and all of them opened to take in the warmth and tenderness of the air. The sun on her face made her want to cry. Into all those millions of open pores came the sunshine, and other feelings as well. In and out. She was porous.

Ann Brashares

Sunshine, Air, Weather

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Baikida Carroll, whose balance of bravada and tenderness, facility and understatement mark him as a player to be reckoned with.

Jon Pareles

Player, Balance, Mark

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We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.

Cornel West

Kindness, Radical, Sweetness

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Children enjoy inflicting pain until unhappiness teaches them tenderness.

Mason Cooley

Children, Pain, Unhappiness

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Frederick Buechner is one of my favorite writers. The Eyes of the Heart is beautiful and wise, full of insight, charm, and tenderness.

Anne Lamott

Beautiful, Wise, Heart

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And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers - shriveled now, and brown and flat and brittle - to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of men.

H. G. Wells

Gratitude, Flower, Heart

H G Wells (2004). “The Time Machine (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.57, Sparklesoup LLC

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A kiss is a secret told to the mouth instead of the ear; kisses are the messengers of love and tenderness.

Ingrid Bergman

Kissing, Secret, Hug

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How should all the apparatus of heaven and earth make poetry for a mind that had no movements of awe and tenderness, no sense of fellowship which thrills from the near to the distant, and back again from the distant to the near?

George Eliot

Heaven, Mind, Earth

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2966, Delphi Classics

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Inevitably, anytime we are too vulnerable we feel the need to protect ourselves from further wounds. So we resort to sarcasm, cutting humor, criticism - anything that will keep from exposing the tenderness within. Each partner tends to wait on the initiative of the other for love, only to be disappointed but also confirmed as to the rightness of the accusations made.

Stephen Covey

Life, Change, Cutting

Stephen R. Covey (2015). “The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time”, p.162, Mango Media Inc.

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