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• water
• knows
• some

I bought some powdered water, but I don’t know what to add. Steven Wright

• struggle
• people
• feeling

One watches them on the seashore, all the people, and there is something pathetic, almost wistful in them, as if they wished their lives did not add up to this scaly nullity of possession, but as if they could not escape. It is a dragon that has devoured us all: these obscene, scaly houses, this insatiable struggle and desire to possess, to possess always and in spite of everything, this need to be an owner, lest one be owned. It is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like... David Herbert Lawrence

• love
• life
• good

There ought to be some mode of life where all love is good, where one love can't compete with another but adds to it. William Golding

• learning
• become
• days

To become learned, each day add something. To become enlightned, each day drop something. Lao Tzu

• romantic
• reality
• imagination

Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them. Jules Verne

• soul
• giving
• library

To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul. Marcus Tullius Cicero

• god
• blessed
• god bless

I will only add, God bless you. Jane Austen

• him
• wellness
• respect

Well, so that's the prosecutor! He lived and lived, and then died! And they will say in the papers that he died to the regret of his staff and all mankind, a respected citizen, a rare father, a model husband, and they will write a lot more stuff and nonsense about him; they will add, maybe, that he was mourned by widows and orphans; but if one were to investigate the matter thoroughly, it will emerge that he had nothing to him except his bushy eyebrows. Nikolai Gogol

• perfect
• brain
• feeling

But he could not taste, he could not feel. In the teashop among the tables and the chattering waiters the appalling fear came over him- he could not feel. He could reason; he could read, Dante for example, quite easily…he could add up his bill; his brain was perfect; it must be the fault of the world then- that he could not feel. Virginia Woolf

• work
• thinking
• people

How then did it work out, all this? How did one judge people, think of them? How did one add up this and that and conclude that it is liking one felt, or disliking? Virginia Woolf

• good
• she
• adds

and much addicted to speaking the truth. In her younger years she was a good deal of a romp, and, though it is an awkward confession to make about one's heroine, I must add that she was something of a glutton. Henry James

• pain
• every
• sufferings

i did know this- every second i spent with her was only going to add to the pain i would have suffer later Stephenie Meyer

• she
• sad
• feeling

That, as far as she could tell, was the purpose of the religion she had been brought up in: it made people feel better when really horrible things happened, and it offered a repertoire of ceremonies that were used to add a touch of class to such goings-on as shacking up with someone and throwing dirt on a corpse. None of which especially bothered Zula or made her doubt its worthwhileness. Making sad people feel better was a fine thing to do. Neal Stephenson

• magic
• beautiful
• waiting

Dill was off again. Beautiful things floated around in his dreamy head. He could read two books to my one, but he preferred the magic of his own inventions. He could add and subtract faster than lightning, but he preferred his own twilight world, a world where babies slept, waiting to be gathered like morning lilies. Harper Lee

• life
• laughter
• swallowed

Laughter is the jam on the toast of life. It adds flavor, keeps it from being too dry, and makes it easier to swallow. Diane Johnson