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What I needed with all my starved and silent soul was just that particular way of shouting back at the world (Was Quotes)
When the vision of the U. S. government included guarding the rights of people but staying out of their way, America was an economic engine more powerful than anything the world had ever witnessed (Was Quotes)
She was a virgin and a warrior, disdainful of the male, which was what eventually convinced people that she really must be off her head (Was Quotes)
The passion for defiling things was inborn in her. It was not enough for her to destroy them, she had to soil them too (Was Quotes)
She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself (Was Quotes)
She made one instinctive effort to resist and then yielded, slipping down on to the floor. Not a single word was exchanged. The act was silent and brutal (Was Quotes)
And, in the warm silence, in the peaceful solitude of the study, Clotilde smiled down at the baby who was still sucking - his little arm in the air, pointing upwards, a symbol of hope and life (Was Quotes)
He wept for truth which was dead, for heaven which was void. Beyond the marble walls and gleaming jewelled altars, the huge plaster Christ had no longer a single drop of blood in its veins (Was Quotes)
The stench of the manure that Jean was turning had cheered him up a little. He adored its promise of fertility and was sniffing it with the relish of a man smelling a randy woman (Was Quotes)
She [Sidonie Rougon] never spoke of her husband, nor of her childhood, her family, or her personal concerns. There was only one thing she never sold, and that was herself (Was Quotes)
He was possessed now with that obsession for the cross in which so many lips have worn themselves away on crucifixes (Was Quotes)
While the storm was erupting, she stayed, staring at it, watching the shafts of lightning, like someone who could see serious things, far away in the future in these sudden flashes of light (Was Quotes)
And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of victory fills a moment and then is over (Was Quotes)
Because, really, what was worse than lying wide awake in the dark, watching your life drip away, one irreplaceable minute after another? (Was Quotes)
And, after a fashion, she herself believed what she was saying. Nevertheless, her nature was much nobler than his; and she know that no man should dare to live idly as the Duke had lived (Was Quotes)
The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot (Was Quotes)
She was as one who, in madness, was resolute to throw herself from a precipice, but to whom some remnant of sanity remained which forced her to seek those who would save her from herself (Was Quotes)
To anyone who took the trouble to look, I was plainly visible, but when people are expecting to see nothing, that is usually what they see (Was Quotes)
Must we be strangers, you and I, because there was a time in which we were almost more than friends? (Was Quotes)
A man captivated by wiles was only captivated for a time, whereas a man won by simplicity would be won forever - if he, himself, were worth the winning (Was Quotes)
Today was the first day of the rest of my life. It was okay, I think the second day of the rest of my life will be better (Was Quotes)
As soon as I read that, it clicked: that's my theater of war. It was exciting to think that I could write about World War Two from a totally new place (Was Quotes)
That was all very nice of them. They didn't have to do anything because I wasn't officially involved at all (Was Quotes)
It was a beautiful afternoon; one to make you realise that God really can be very good sometimes with weather and scenery (Was Quotes)
Stop comparing or boast at your victories. He was referring to enormous vitality and strength of God of Jesus seeking union with us. The living acts of a Christian become somehow the acts of Christ (Was Quotes)
And then the man reminded Max, with a serious but suave and practiced air, that freedom was a debt that could be repaid only by purchasing the freedom of others (Was Quotes)
Humility was a cult in my family. I only got it out of my father by accident when he was very old that he had won an Olympic gold medal (Was Quotes)
The past was irretrievable, the league of lonely men a fiction, the pursuit of the past a doomed attempt to run a hustle on mortality (Was Quotes)
When being is divorced from doing, pious thoughts become an adequate substitute for washing dirty feet (Was Quotes)
Grandma always made you feel she had been waiting to see just you all day and now the day was complete (Was Quotes)