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memories childhood fiction
A childhood is what anyone wants to remember of it. It leaves behind no fossils, except perhaps in fiction. Carol Shields
memories desire satisfied
Memory is satisfied desire. Carlos Fuentes
memories minorities five-senses
Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than a minority of them - never become even conscious of them all. C. S. Lewis
memories pleasure remembered
A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. You are speaking, Hmán, as if pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing.
memories mind nostalgic
I'm not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind. Agnes Varda
memories everyday special
Nostalgia doesn't make sense, because it's like bringing the memories back to be a special part of my day or to be part of my week. And I'm inside my memories the same way I'm inside my everyday life.
memories exceptional ifs
I've just got an exceptional memory, if I say so myself. Alan Sugar
memories add
Say whatever your memory suggests is true; but add nothing and exaggerate nothing. Charlotte Bronte
memories years age
Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.
grief giving feelings
Grief ... gives life a permanently provisional feeling. It doesn't seem worth starting anything. I can't settle down. I yawn, I fidget, I smoke too much. Up till this I always had too little time. Now there is nothing but time. Almost pure time, empty successiveness.
grief sorrow maps
I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process.
grief bears trouble
A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble. Agnes Repplier
grief eye strange
Strange that grief should now almost choke me, because another human being's eye has failed to greet mine.
grief sea people
Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive. The sternest-seeming stoic is human after all, and to burst with boldness and good-will into the silent sea of their souls is often to confer on them the first of obligations.
grief struggle mastery
The vehemence of emotion, stirred by grief and love within me, was claiming mastery, and struggling for full sway; and asserting a right to predominate: to overcome, to live, rise, and reign at last; yes,--and to speak.
grief moving men
Your tale is of the longest," observed Monks, moving restlessly in his chair. It is a true tale of grief and trial, and sorrow, young man," returned Mr. Brownlow, "and such tales usually are; if it were one of unmixed joy and happiness, it would be very brief. Charles Dickens
grief loss grieving
And can it be that in a world so full and busy the loss of one creature makes a void so wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth of eternity can fill it up!
grief rain air
A blight had fallen on the trees and shrubs; and the wind, at length beginning to break the unnatural stillness that had prevailed all day, sighed heavily from time to time, as though foretelling in grief the ravages of the coming storm. The bat skimmed in fantastic flights through the heavy air, and the ground was alive with crawling things, whose instinct brought them forth to swell and fatten in the rain.
delight guests leisure
Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
delight ifs settings
If you delight more in God’s gifts than in God Himself, you are practically setting up another God above Him, and this you must never do. Charles Spurgeon
delight holiness pleasure
We fear not God because of any compulsion; our faith is no fetter, our profession is no bondage, we are not dragged to holiness, nor driven to duty. No, our piety is our pleasure, our hope is our happiness, our duty is our delight.
delight matter infinity
What can an eternity of damnation matter to someone who has felt, if only for a second, the infinity of delight? Charles Baudelaire
delight far knowledge nature pleasure
The pleasure and delight of knowledge and learning, it far surpasseth all other in nature Francis Bacon
delight flattery praise
Oh, flatter me; for love delights in praises. William Shakespeare
delights double life second
One of the delights of life is eating with friends; second to that is talking about eating. And, for an unsurpassed double whammy, there is talking about eating while you are eating with friends. Laurie Colwin
delightful french-writer happiness pleasure starts tainted worm
Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison. Georges Bataille
delight impossibility
We have a God who delights in impossibilities. Billy Sunday