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«As always on this boulevard, the faces were young, coming annually in an endless migration from every country, every continent, to alight here once in the long journey of their lives.»
Author: Brian Moore
(Novelist, Writer)
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«Women's hands, heavy with diamonds, stirred coffee in tiny cups or alighted playfully on a neighboring sleeve. Young men's hands, with costly cuff links and the slimmest of watches, waved languorously at wine buckets and waiters.»
Author: Kennedy Fraser
| About:
Men,
Men and Women,
Women
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«A visual experience is vitalizing. Whereas to write great poetry, to draw continuously on one's inner life, is not merely exhausting, it is to keep alight a consuming fire.»
Author: Kenneth Clark
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«Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Happiness
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«The world has a thousand creeds, and never a one have I;Not a church of my own, though a million spires are pointing the way on high.But I float on the bosom of faith, that bears me along like a river;And the lamp of my soul is alight with love for life, and the world, and the Giver.»
«Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.»
«I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
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