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en The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust
  Elizabeth Bowen

en The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust. Pex Tufvesson is called Mahoney in the demo scene.
  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

en And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.

en The three indispensable of genius are: understanding, feeling, and perseverance; the three things that enrich genius are: contentment of mind, the cherishing of good thoughts, and the exercise of memory
  Robert Southey

en Whether the knife falls on the melon or the melon on the knife, the melon suffers

en 'Lohengrin' to us ordinary mortals seemed something like the whistling of the wind through the keyholes of a cathedral, which has a dreamy charm for a little while, but by and by you long for the sound even of a street organ to rush in and break the
  George Eliot

en My God, no! I hate this whole hunk thing! I feel when I see myself in that, and these other cute faces, that I'm just part of this meat factory, like, Wow! Here's the hunk of the month! This month we're shoving Leonardo DiCaprio down your throat! Isn
  Leonardo DiCaprio

en [But he enjoyed his first afternoon in the Swamp, anyway.] I was actually chewing some kid out when I looked up and saw everyone was swaying (to music), ... So I just stopped and listened ... then I went back to chewing him out.

en In the end, the only events of my life worth telling are those when the imperishable world erupted into this transitory one… All other memories of travels, people and my surroundings have paled beside these interior happenings… But my encounters with the 'other' reality, my bouts with the unconscious, are indelibly engraved on my memory. In that realm there has always been wealth in abundance, and everything else has lost importance by comparison.
  Carl Gustav Jung

en He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

en He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

en The boss is very protective of the ballpark. He told me in no uncertain terms to view it as a cathedral and don't do anything that would lose the essence of a baseball cathedral.

en Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.
  William Hazlitt

en "Charm" - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
  Henry Havelock Ellis

en "Charm" - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
  Henry Havelock Ellis


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