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Ernest Hemingway quote: "Oh, now, now, now, the only now, and above all now, and there..."
Oh, now, now, now, the only now, and above all now, and there is no other now but thou now and now is thy prophet. Ernest Hemingway
The Lord through His grace appeared to man, gave him the Gospel or eternal plan whereby he might rise above the carnal and selfish things of life and obtain spiritual perfection. But he must rise by his own efforts and he must walk by faith. David O. McKay
From a translation by Stephen Mitchell Chapter 14Look, and it can't be seen. Listen, and it can't be heard. Reach, and it can't be grasped. Above, it isn't bright. Below, it isn't dark. Seamless, unnamable, it returns to the realm of nothing. Form that includes all forms, image without an image, subtle, beyond all conception. Approach it and there is no beginning; follow it and there is no end. You can't know it, but you can be it, at ease in your own life. Just realize where you come from:... Lao Tzu
Thoughts are free and subject to no rule. On them rests the freedom of man, and they tower above the light of nature...create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy from which new arts flow. Paracelsus
Samuel Johnson quote: "A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who..."
A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him. Samuel Johnson
O sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams. That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell, how glorious once above thy sphere. John Milton
The accouterments of life were so rich and varied, so elaborated, that almost no place at all was left for life itself. Each and every accessory was so costly and beautiful that it had an existence above and beyond the purpose it was meant to serve? confusing the observer and absorbing attention. Thomas Mann
Oh it was gorgeousness and gorgeosity made flesh. The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise silverflamed, and there by the door the timps rolling through my guts and out again crunched like candy thunder. Oh, it was wonder of wonders. And then, a bird of like rarest spun heavenmetal, or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now, came the violin solo above all the other strings, and those strings were like a cage of... Anthony Burgess
Love, whether it's friendship or more, is like a cup. It fills up drop by drop, until one last drop and the cup is full. The liquid hangs there almost above the rim, hangs there on surface tension alone and you know that one more drop and it will spill over. Laurell K. Hamilton
William Shakespeare quote: "You are a lover. Borrow Cupid's wingsand soar with them above..."
You are a lover. Borrow Cupid's wingsand soar with them above a common bound. William Shakespeare
There did not have to be a moral. She need only show separate minds, as alive as her own, struggling with the idea that other minds were equally alive. It wasn't only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding, above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you. And only in a story could you enter these different minds and show how they had an equal value. That was the only moral a story need have. Ian Mcewan
...there was a storm of enormous proportions, with winds so strong that dozens of fish were drawn up from the reedy shallows, then lifted above the village in a shining cloud of scales. Alice Hoffman
William Gibson quote: "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a..."
The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel. William Gibson
No onslaught more fierce was ever seen in the savage world of beasts, where some desperate small creature armed with little teeth, alone, will spring upon a tower of horn and hide that stands above its fallen mate. J. R. R. Tolkien
Its a good thing when a man is different from your image of him. Is shows he isnt a type. If he were, it would be the end of him as a man. But if you cant place him in a category, it means that at least a part of him is what a human being ought to be. He has risen above himself, he has a grain of immortality. Boris Pasternak

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