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«They float upon the surface of the darkness in which I'm drowning.»
«Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time»
Author: John Lubbock
(Biologist, Politician)
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Rest
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«Sometimes oppurtunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.»
Author: Julie Andrews
(Actress, Singer)
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«Between the covers of the books that no one had ever read again, in the old parchments damaged by dampness, a livid flower had prospered, and in the air that had been the purest and brightest in the house an unbearable smell of rotten memories floated.»
Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Books,
Reading
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«But the majestic river floated on, / Out of the mist and hum of that low land, / Into the frosty starlight, and there moved, / Rejoicing, through the hushed Chorasmian waste, / Under the solitary moon.»
«Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.»
«I wandered lonely as a cloud / That floats on high o'er vales and hills, / When all at once I saw a crowd, / A host, of golden daffodils.»
«They blow themselves up in order to get at us, and we launch 3 million dollar missiles off of giant floating iron islands 2000 miles away -- Who are the real cowards?»
«Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.»
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
(Writer)
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abortive, floated, foul, preyed, short-winded, The Wake, turned out, winded
«Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.»
Author: W. C. Fields
(Actor, Comic)
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downstream, fish, float, floated, How to swim, one to, swam, swim, upstream
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