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«I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons with rocks before I ever took a hatchet.»
«I played with Tiger [Woods], and I probably felt like you would be out there with me. Tiger is getting it by me about 50 or 60 yards, so it makes you inferior with your ability to hit the ball.»
«I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.»
«Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.»
Author: Carl Sandburg
(Historian, Novelist, Poet)
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all the, by me, came, nearly, unexpected, unplanned
«Music sweeps by me as a messenger - Carrying a message that is not for me»
«Love must not entreat, nor demand. Love must have the power to find its own way to certainty. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract. Your love, Sinclair, is attracted by me. When it begins to attract me, I will come. I will not»
«My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fiber all over me to a delightful sensation about three degrees on this sight of faintness -- if I had teeth of pearl and the breath of lilies I should call it languor -- but as I am I must call it laziness. In this state of effeminacy the fibers of the brain are relaxed in common with the rest of the body, and to such a happy degree that pleasure has no show of enticement and pain no unbearable frown. Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.»
Author: John Keats
(Poet)
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alertness, All Over Me, animal fiber, asleep, by me, countenance, degrees, delightful, effeminacy, eleven, enticement, faintness, fibers, frown, languor, laziness, lilies, no show, pass by, pearl, relaxed, sensation, slumbered, The Animal, unbearable
«I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had acquired it in the midst of frivolous amusements, in idleness, in tenderness and in pain, stored up by me without my divining its destination or even its survival, as the seed has in reserve all the ingredients which will nourish the plant.»
Author: Marcel Proust
(Author, Novelist)
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amusements, by me, divining, frivolous, ingredients, literary, literary work, nourish, past life, reserve, stored up, tenderness, The Plant
«I like a Highland friend who will stand by me, not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
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by me, highland, stand by
«Often have I sighed to measureBy myself a lonely pleasure,Sighed to think, I read a bookOnly read, perhaps, by me.»
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