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George Orwell quote: "But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble..."
But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong. George Orwell
But before he went loopy he was the life and soul of the party," said Fred. "He used to down an entire bottle of firewhiskey, then run onto the dance floor, hoist up his robes, and start pulling bunches of flowers out of his--"Yes, he sounds like a real charmer," said Hermione, while Harry roared with laughter. Never married, for some reason," said Ron. J. K. Rowling
But we believe? nay, Lord we only hope, That one day we shall thank thee perfectly. For pain and hope and all that led or drove. Us back into the bosom of thy love. George MacDonald
William Shakespeare quote: "But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are..."
But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows end. William Shakespeare
But yield who will to their separation, My object in living is to unite. My avocation and my vocation. As my two eyes make one in sight. Robert Frost
But I have learned that you make your own happiness, that part of going for what you want means losing something else. And when the stakes are high, the losses can be that much greater. Emily Giffin
But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not. John Steinbeck
But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said. Agatha Christie
But the modern critic not only permits a false practice: he absolutely prescribes false aims." A true allegory of the state of one's mind in a representative history," the poet is told, "is perhaps the highest thing that one can attempt in the way of poetry. Matthew Arnold
But if these unavoidable separations cause you a measure of pain, they also increase your longing for her, and perhaps that isn’t a bad thing, you decide, for you spend your days in the thrall of breathless anticipation, agitated and alert, counting the hours until you can see her and hold her again. Intense. That is the word you use to describe yourself now. You are intense. Your feelings are intense. Your life has become increasingly intense. Paul Auster
But a thought swarmed in me; what if he, this yellow-eyed being? in his ridiculous, dirty bundle of trees, in his uncalculated life? is happier than us? Yevgeny Zamyatin
But secretly I knew I had been transformed, moved by the revalation that human beings create art, that to be an artist was to see what others could not. Patti Smith
But attack can take strange forms. And you will remember the tooth. The tooth. Duke Leto Atreides. You will remember the tooth." -Dr. Yueh Frank Herbert
But in the loneliest desert happens the second metamorphosis: here the spirit becomes a lion; he will seize his freedom and be master in his own wilderness. Friedrich Nietzsche
...But what has any of the three, or any mixture of the three, to do with that unnameable something, desire for which pierces us like a rapier at the smell of a bonfire, the sound of wild ducks flying overhead, the title of The Well at the World's End, the opening lines of Kubla Khan, the morning cobwebs in late summer, or the noise of falling waves? C. S. Lewis

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