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“...when you're hard and unyielding your words score me with lines - I hate lines - I want curves - curves are happy like a snowman ...”

Book:A Familiar Rain

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“Horror is a shock, a time of utter blindness. Horror lacks every hint of beauty. All we can see is the piercing light of an unknown event awaiting us. Sadness, on the other hand, assumes we are in the know... The light of horror thus lost its harshness, and the world was bathed in a gentle, bluish light that actually beautified it.”

Sadness Horror Blue Harshness

Book:The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Harsh ways are taught by harshness.”

Harshness

Book:Electra

Source: Electra

“We don’t need to take off our pants and stand naked in the snow to experience the harshness of life; a clever person even can feel it with a bottle of wine.”

Life Wine Clever Snow Naked Pants Feel Harshness Take Off

Book:LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

Source: LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

“I am impressed anew by... how much the harshness that challenges life is what causes the beauty. Birds fly because they must escape predators and search for food. Trees grow skyward because they compete fiercely with other trees for light. Living things need something to push off of. Each of us needs challenges to give us the right shape.”

Beauty Evolution Hunger Harshness

Book:Eye of the Albatross: Visions of Hope and Survival

Source: Eye of the Albatross: Visions of Hope and Survival

“Don't be so harsh on yourself because of your bad decisions you've made in the past and don't let them hinder your life progress. Try to forgive yourself and accept it as a learning curve for you and thank God you have managed to turn things .around.”

Harshness

Author:Euginia Herlihy

“The two lovers stood, hand in hand and close enough to feel their breath, overlooking, the calmness and harshness of the sea, a tenderness to its ferocity.”

Love Sea Lovers Tenderness Calmness Harshness Ferocity

Book:The Light that Binds Us

Source: The Light that Binds Us

“I don’t like it. I would prefer no one else became tied up in this. But some things can’t be helped. War is harsh.” “We’re not at war.” “Yet.”

War Fear Dread Inevitability Harshness

Book:She Who Rises

Source: She Who Rises

“Like her harshness was a kind of coat she wrapped tightly round herself so nobody could see what was underneath.”

Harshness Self Protection

Book:How the Penguins Saved Veronica

Source: How the Penguins Saved Veronica

“الشعب المصري يعشق البطل الديكتاتور ويحس بالأمان عندما يخضع للإستبداد”

Dictator Egyptians

Book:جمهورية كأن

Source: جمهورية كأن

“When the Franks and Turks weren't fighting over Egypt, the only thing they seemed to agree on was that the Egyptians couldn't govern it themselves. God forbid. It's not as though the Egyptians were the inheritors of a great civilization whose mighty monuments still littered the land. Oh, no. They were peasants, superstitious fools who ate too many beans”

Sarcasm Egypt Egyptians

Book:The City of Brass

Source: The City of Brass

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