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“When mountains and waters are painted, blue, green, and red paints are used, strange rocks and wondrous stones are used, the four jewels and the seven treasures are used. Rice-cakes are painted in the same manner. When a person is painted, the four great elements and five skandhas are used.”

Persons Used Water Five Four Rocks Strange Materials Mountain Elements Red Stones Blue Green Paint Seven Treasure Cake Jewels Rice Wondrous Rice Cakes

Author:Dogen

“Fire, loveliest of the four elements of the world, and yet an element too in Hell. While it burned adoringly in the core of the Temple, it had also scorched the life from a city, this night, and spewed its venom over the land. How strange of God to speak from a burning bush, and of Man to make a symbol of Heaven into a symbol of Hell.”

Men World Night Speak Heaven Cities Hell Fire Four Land Strange Elements Core Symbols Burning Temples Burned Venom Burning Bush Four Elements

Book:A Canticle For Leibowitz

Source: A Canticle For Leibowitz

“I often use detective elements in my books. I love detective novels. But I also think science fiction and detective stories are very close and friendly genres, which shows in the books by Isaac Asimov, John Brunner, and Glen Cook. However, whilst even a tiny drop of science fiction may harm a detective story, a little detective element benefits science fiction. Such a strange puzzle.”

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Author:Sergei Lukyanenko

“The rare earth elements perplex us in our researches, baffle us in our speculations, and haunt us in our very dreams. They stretch like an unknown sea before us mocking, mystifying and murmuring strange revelations and possibilities.”

Dream Earth Sea Possibility Strange Elements Research Revelations Speculation Murmuring

Author:William Crookes

“I seldom meet actors, they are to me bright strange fishes swimming in an element alien to me; I feel that to meet them is to See Life.”

Feels Actors Strange Elements Fishes Aliens Swimming

Book:Last letters to a friend, 1952-1958

Source: Last letters to a friend, 1952-1958

“It seems strange that a butterfly's wing should be woven up so thin and gauzy in the monstrous loom of nature, and be so delicately tipped with fire from such a gross hand, and rainbowed all over in such a storm of thunderous elements. The marvel is that such great forces do such nice work.”

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Book:Centenary Edition [of the Writings of Theodore Parker]

Source: Centenary Edition [of the Writings of Theodore Parker]

“I have always been astonished by hate. Revenge and hate. That is such strange human elements. I have seen a lot of that in my life. I am just as surprised each time. By revenge and hate.”

Humans Hate Strange Elements Revenge

Author:Odd Nerdrum

“Proportion is all; and, in sports at school, I lost it by surrendering to the awful significance of my self-consciousness. Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.”

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Book:Broken Vessels: Essays

Source: Broken Vessels: Essays

“If we were making a record in Kentucky, there might be some more elements that recall a time, a place, or a relationship. Recording for the BBC you enter into this strange and wonderful, but kind of sterile, place with which you have no personal history, and that's the Maida Vale Studios at BBC in London.”

Ifs Kind Might Records Wonderful Strange Elements Studios London Recalls Kentucky Personal History

Author:Will Oldham

“This is the strange thing about existing in time. As [Philip] Larkin puts it, "truly, though our element is time, we are not used to the strange perspectives open at each moment of our lives" - something like that.”

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Author:Quentin S. Crisp

“I probably wouldn't have done [ Fred Leuchter story] if it was just a story about an executioner or a holocaust denier, but the combination of the two elements was irresistible. So yeah, I find it strange that there are so many people out there now.”

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Author:Errol Morris