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«I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my share of eating too. I am not washed and beautiful, in control of a shining world in which everything fits, but instead am wondering awed about on a splintered wreck I've come to care for, whose gnawed trees breathe a delicate air, whose bloodied and scarred creatures are my dearest companions, and whose beauty bats and shines not in its imperfections but overwhelmingly in spite of them...»
Author: Annie Dillard
(Author)
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«It takes so little to make people happy. Just a touch, If we know how to give it, just a word fitly spoken, a slight readjustment of some bolt or pin or bearing in the delicate machinery of a soul.»
Author: Frank Crane
| Keywords:
bearing, bolt, bolted, delicate, fitly, machinery, pin, readjustment, slight
«I wonder why men get serious at all. They have this delicate, long thing hanging outside their bodies which goes up and down by its own will. If I were a man I would always be laughing at myself.»
Author: Yoko Ono
(Artist, Musician)
| Keywords:
delicate, hanging, If I were a, laughing, up and down
«In every true searcher of Nature there is a kind of religious reverence, for he finds it impossible to imagine that he is the first to have thought out the exceedingly delicate threads that connect his perceptions»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
connect, delicate, exceedingly, First to, perceptions, reverence, searcher, threads
«Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful - but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Men and Women
| Keywords:
birds, caged, delicate, flying bird, fragile, heights, hitherto, savage, soulful, stranger, strayed, straying, strays, sweeter, treated
«If we are forced, at every hour, to watch or listen to horrible events, this constant stream of ghastly impressions will deprive even the most delicate among us of all respect for humanity.»
«Ignorance is like a delicate fruit; touch it, and the bloom is gone.»
«Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared with the misery of others»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Envy,
Misery,
Pride
| Keywords:
advantages, delicate
«Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.»
«O curse of marriage that we can call these delicate creatures ours and not their appetites!»
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