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Quote by John Donne

“Filled with her love, may I be rather grown Mad with much heart, than idiot with none.”

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John Donne was a renowned 17th-century English poet, known for his profound religious and philosophical reflections. His poetry style was unique, blending the elegance of the Renaissance with the passion of the Reformation. more

“‎Honoured sir, poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkeness is not a virtue, and that's even truer. But beggary, honoured sir, beggary is a vice. In poverty you may still retain your innate nobility of soul, but in beggary--never--no one. For beggary a man is not chased out of human society with a stick, he is swept out with a broom, so as to make it as humiliating as possible; and quite right, too, forasmuch as in beggary as I am ready to be the first to humiliate myself.”

Knows Men Firsts Humans May Stills Soul Poverty Virtue Ready Sticks Vices Nobility Innate Human Society Humiliating Humiliate Brooms Beggary

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“There was a lot they didn’t tell you about death, she had discovered, and one of the biggies was how long it took the ones you loved most to die in your heart.”

Heart Long Dies Biggie Biggy

Book:Lisey's Story: A Novel

Source: Lisey's Story: A Novel

“He gave her his phone number, in a peculiar reversal of dating procedure. She might have considered kissing him, even after the horrible first date, but he just didn’t seem to know what to do. However, Jeremy does have one outstanding quality. He likes her. And this quality in a person makes them infinitely interesting to the person who is being liked.”

Knows Firsts Persons Doe Seems Might Interesting Numbers Quality Kissing Dating Phones Likes Horrible Peculiar Procedures Outstanding First Date Reversal Phone Numbers Kissing Him

Author:Steve Martin

“Mirabelle replaces the absent friends with books and television mysteries of the PBS kind. The books are mostly nineteenth-century novels in which women are poisoned or are doing the poisoning. She does not read these books as a romantic lonely hearts turning pages in the isolation of her room, not at all. She is instead an educated spirit with a sense of irony. She loves the gloom of these period novels, especially as kitsch, but beneath it all she finds that a part of her indentifies with all that darkness.”

“The overhead lights reflect in the glass countertop and mingle in the gray and black of the gloves, resulting in a mother-of-pearl swirl that sometimes sends Mirabelle into a shallow hypnotic dream.”

Sometimes Dream Light Mother Black Glasses Gray Shallow Pearls Gloves Overhead Swirls Hypnotic

Book:Shopgirl

Source: Shopgirl

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