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“Day after day, day after day,We stuck, nor breath nor motion;As idle as a painted shipUpon a painted ocean.”
“Whats it like to live forever?Nicholas almost dropped the glass he had been holding. What?Whats it like to know you will never die?He should have known, he thought. She was a smart woman. Lonely. H...”
“Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician's curse.”
“Since the beginning of the world, a prayer is a prayer and a curse is a curse-- no matter the people-- no matter the language-- Man has given a thousand different namesto his god, but look into the...”
“Every night death came, slowly, painfully, and every morning Maddox awoke in bed, knowing he'd have to die again later. That was his greatest curse and his eternal punishment.”
“The curse of men can't make me defiled.I defile myself if I curse men by intention.”
“To belong nowhere is a blessing and a curse, like any kind of freedom.”
“Have we freed this man or cursed him?" he wondered aloud."Freedom is never a curse, brother," Thirty-four insisted. "But it is often a hard road.”
“When you write about what you dream, you become a writer.When you dream about what you write, you become haunted by a curse.”
“One destructive mind-set that must be altered in our society is the thought that work is a curse.”
“If human pleasure did not have both a lid and a time limit, we would not bestir ourselves to do things that were not pleasurable, such as toiling for our subsistence. And then we would not survive....”
“Really? And what curse befalls the Adams of the world?"Ann opens her mouth and, presumably thinking of nothing to say, closes it again. It is Felicity who answers, eyes steely. "They are weak to te...”
“I had been able to break the curse myself. I'd had to have reason enough, love enough to do it, to find the will and the strength.”
“The black wolfs curse awakes every time that a full moon points in the middle of the sky.”
“I've never understood why the majority of human curses and insults refer to the erotic sphere. Sex is wonderful and associated with beauty, joy and pleasure. How can the names of the sexual organs ...”
“Utterances of cursed language defiles the hearts and souls of man and many.”
“Intelligence is perhaps but a malady, -a beautiful malady; the oysters's pearl.”
“Tantalus made a wild grab, but the marshmallow committed suicide, diving into the flames.”
“She opened her eyes and touched her lips, as though he had just kissed them. She could taste him.”
“Listen to the earth, Feel the fire. Allow the power to flow through ye.”
