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“And just as music is the space between notes, just as the stars are beautiful because of the space between them, just as the sun strikes raindrops at a certain angle and throws a prism of color across the sky—so the space where I exist, and want to keep existing, and to be quite frank I hope I die in, is exactly this middle distance: where despair struck pure otherness and created something sublime.”

Want Beautiful Certain Dies Stars Space Sun Sky Middle Color Pure Despair Music Is Distance Notes Strikes Frank Sublime Angle Space Between Raindrops Otherness Prisms

Author:Donna Tartt

“Intuition is the undoubting conception of a pure and attentive mind, which arises from the light of reason alone, and is more certain than deduction.”

Mind Reason Light Certain Pure Intuition Arise Conception Deductions

Author:Rene Descartes

“A great poet ought to a certain degree to rectify men's feelings... to render their feelings more sane, pure and permanent, in short, more consonant to Nature.”

Men Feelings Certain Poet Ought Pure Degrees Permanent Sane Great Poet Rectify Consonants

Book:Lyrical Ballads and other Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth (Including Their Thoughts On Poetry Principles and Secrets): Collections of Poetry which marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature, including poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The Dungeon, The Nightingale, Dejection: An Ode

Source: Lyrical Ballads and other Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth (Including Their Thoughts On Poetry Principles and Secrets): Collections of Poetry which marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature, including poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The Dungeon, The Nightingale, Dejection: An Ode

“The 'pure' red of which certain abstractionists speak does not exist. Any red is rooted in blood, glass, wine, hunters' caps and a thousand other concrete phenomena. Otherwise we would have no feeling toward red and its relations.”

Doe Feelings Certain Speak Blood Thousand Pure Red Relation Wine Glasses Concrete Rooted Hunters Caps

Author:Robert Motherwell

“I am certain I have not a right feeling towards women -- at this moment I am striving to be just to them, but I cannot. Is it because they fall so far beneath my boyish imagination? When I was a schoolboy I thought a fair woman a pure Goddess; my mind was a soft nest in which some one of them slept, though she knew it not.”

Mind Moments Feelings Certain Fall Women Imagination Pure Fairs Strive Goddess Nests Boyish

Book:Selected Letters

Source: Selected Letters

“Pure generosity emerges when we give without the need for our offering to be received in a certain way. That’s why the best kind of generosity comes from inner abundance, rather than from feeling deficient and hollow, starved for validation.”

Way Needs Giving Kind Feelings Certain Pure Generosity Abundance Offering Hollow Validation

Author:Sharon Salzberg

“Purgatory basically means that God can put the pieces back together again. That He can cleanse us in such a way that we are able to be with Him and can stand there in the fullness of life. Purgatory strips off from one person what is unbearable and from another the inability to bear certain things, so that in each of them a pure heart is revealed, and we can see that we all belong together in one enormous symphony of being.”

“We must not regard what or how the world esteems us, so we have the Word pure, and are certain of our doctrine.”

World Certain Pure Regard Doctrine Esteem

Book:Martin Luther's Table Talk

Source: Martin Luther's Table Talk

“I am obliged to interpolate some remarks on a very difficult subject: proof and its importance in mathematics. All physicists, and a good many quite respectable mathematicians, are contemptuous about proof. I have heard Professor Eddington, for example, maintain that proof, as pure mathematicians understand it, is really quite uninteresting and unimportant, and that no one who is really certain that he has found something good should waste his time looking for proof.”

“The authentic and pure values, truth, beauty, and goodness, in the activity of a human being are the result of one and the same act, a certain application of the full attention to the object. Teaching should have no aim but to prepare, by training the attention, for the possibility of such an act. All the other advantages of instruction are without interest.”

Source: Gravity and Grace

“It is that faculty by which we discover and enjoy the beautiful, the picturesque, and the sublime in literature, art, and nature; which recognizes a noble thought, as a virtuous mind welcomes a pure sentiment by a involuntary glow of satisfaction. But while the principle of perception is inherent in the soul, it requires a certain amount of knowledge to draw out and direct it.”

“Historically, there are hierarchies of purity. Certain aspects of poetry are very, very pure. The lyric poem can't be anything but the lyric poem.”

Certain Pure Aspect Purity Hierarchy

Author:Vijay Seshadri

“Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak.... They are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where they have no account.”

Men Giving Law Certain Results Emotion Pure Draws Weak Accounts Vanity Useless Charm Resolution Now And Then Interfere Respectability Luxurious Cheques

Book:The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories

“For what I can imagine and feel and think and hear, I can hardly do anything on the acoustic bass. It used to be just pure frustration of imagining so much more and being able to get to a certain level of execution.”

Thinking Feels I Can Able Used Certain Levels Imagine Pure Used To Be Frustration Execution Bass Acoustics

Author:Esperanza Spalding

“I would define morality as enlightened self-interest...That old Platonic ideal that there are certain pure moral forms just isn't where we are.”

Self Form Certain Interest Moral Morality Pure Ideals Manners Enlightened Self Interest Platonic

Author:Andrew Young

“The scientific observer of the realm of nature is in a sense naturally and inevitably disinterested. At least, nothing in the natural scene can arouse his bias. Furthermore, he stands completely outside of the natural so that his mind, whatever his limitations, approximates pure mind. The observer of the realm of history cannot be disinterested in the same way, for two reasons: first, he must look at history from some locus in history; secondly, he is to a certain degree engaged in its ideological conflicts.”

Way Mind Firsts Looks Two Reason Science Certain Natural History Scene Pure Conflict Degrees Limitation Realms Engaged Bias Observers Ideological Disinterested

Author:Reinhold Niebuhr

“To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do my best to get out of it.”

Writing May Certain Reading Pleasure Novel Pure Difficulty

Book:Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

“I don't see myself as a pure fashion designer sending dress after dress down the runway but about wanting those watching my shows to aspire to a certain lifestyle.”

Shows Certain Fashion Pure Dresses Lifestyle Designer Aspire Fashion Designer Runway

Author:Matthew Williamson

“Many will think they may reasonably blame me by alleging that my proofs are opposed to the authority of certain men held in the highest reverence by their inexperienced judgments; not considering that my works are the issue of pure and simple experience.”

Thinking Men May Certain Simple Issues Pure Authority Judgment Highest Blame Proof Reverence Considering Blame Me

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)

“There's just a feeling you get from certain things you do in life that just kind of feel pure and independent of what's actually, physically, going on.”

Feels Kind Feelings Certain Pure Independent

Author:Craig Ferguson

“As an individual navigating this reality, you have to make choices to survive. Sometimes you happily work for free if it's something you love and believe in. I'm not categorically saying that working for free is bad. I'm just looking at the broader implications of it, and also challenge this idea - and again, this is an argument made by certain people in the tech world - that amateurs are automatically more pure and will triumph over stodgy professionals.”

People Ifs World Believe Made Ideas Sometimes Reality Certain Choices Individual Challenges Pure Argument Triumph Implications Something You Love

Author:Astra Taylor

“I'm sure some people might be offended by that, but this is my feeling about show business. It's not all about pure talent. There are certain people who command a stage because they look good ,like me.”

People Looks Shows Feelings Might Certain Stage Talent Pure Like Me Command Offended Show Business

Author:Howard Stern

“I believe the best way to activate genius within the immune system is by ingesting certain superherbs and superfoods, taking probiotics and cultured foods, minimizing toxic food exposure by eating pure organic raw-living foods, and making appropriate healthy lifestyle improvements.”

“I definitely think about the types of girls that I think would like a certain thing, but at the end of the day it's the most pure expression of myself, let's say, what I'm doing and what I want to create.”

Thinking Want Ends Certain Girl Expression Type Pure The End Of The Day Type Of Girl

Author:Rumi Neely

“I can't say that fantasy instead of the 3D world is fine or good, but I know in my own life I have certain people I've kind of fixated upon to the point of pure fantasy. Then there's such a dilemma when here they are, and they're getting ever less and less like the way the fantasy has them.”

People Knows World Way Kind I Can Certain My Own Fantasy Fine Pure Dilemma My Own Life

Author:Jane Alison

“I know that for category purposes, people have to lump certain artists in with genre that they make their name or their bones in. Nobody can tell me that Taj Mahal is pure blues. Nobody can tell me that Mike Bloomfield was pure blues. It was a lot of other things going on as well.”

People Knows Wells Purpose Artist Certain Names Pure Bones Genre Categories Mike Lumps Taj Mahal Mahal

Author:Joe Louis Walker

“There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.”

Persons Certain Truth Is Pure Poison

Book:ARIEL THE LIFE OF SHELLEY

Source: ARIEL THE LIFE OF SHELLEY

“Drama can feel like therapy whereas comedy feels like there's been a pressure and a weight lifted off of you. You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there's a certain feeling when you're sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it's just pure escapism and they're happy.”

Feels Feelings Home Light Certain Audience Laughing Comedy Minutes Drama Pure Sitting Weight Pressure Therapy Escapism

Author:Gabrielle Union

“It seemed to me certain, and I still think so today, that one can never wrestle enough with God if one does so out of pure regard for the truth. Christ likes us to prefer truth to him because, before being Christ, he is truth. If one turns aside from him to go toward the truth, one will not go far before falling into his arms.”

Ifs Thinking Doe Stills Enough Today Certain Turns Fall Christ Arms Pure Regard Likes

Book:Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)

Source: Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)

“The pure playfulness of certain wholly whimsical portions of (Charles) Cros’s work should not obscure the fact that at the center of some of his most beautiful poems a revolver is leveled straight at us.”

Should Facts Beautiful Certain Pure Portions Obscure Playfulness Whimsical Revolver

Author:Andre Breton

“Yet how strange a thing is the beauty of music! The brief beauty that the player brings into being transforms a given period of time into pure continuance; it is certain never to be repeated; like the existence of dayflies and other such short-lived creatures, beauty is a perfect abstraction and creation of life itself. Nothing is so similar to life as music.”

Certain Given Perfect Existence Player Creation Strange Periods Pure Creatures Abstraction Short Lived Continuance

Author:Yukio Mishima

“He has built a pedestal for her so tall that she is afraid to be lifted atop it, because to fall would mean certain death. But oh, she would rise far, far beyond fear and be held by arms so strong, and love so pure, that falling would not be an option.”

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Author:Ellen Hopkins

“You are pure flame. I touch you and I ignite. I kiss you and I burn to have more. You consume me… like no other woman before you, and, I am certain, like no other ever could again.”

Certain Pure Kissing Flames Ignite

Author:Tina St. John