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Presence Quotes (page 7)

Italo Calvino quote: "One reads alone, even in another's presence."
One reads alone, even in another's presence. Italo Calvino
The maddened four men followed frantically, for it is better to be in the presence of the awful than only within hearing. ("The Black Dog") Stephen Crane
Ursula K. Le Guin quote: "Progress means nothing to presence."
Progress means nothing to presence. Ursula K. Le Guin
Not the bee upon the blossom, In the pride o' sunny noon; Not the little sporting fairy, All beneath the simmer moon; Not the poet, in the moment. Fancy lightens in his e'e, Kens the pleasure, feels the rapture, That thy presence gi'es to me. Robert Burns
A perverse nature can be stimulated by anything. Any book can be used as a pornographic instrument, even a great work of literature if the mind that so uses it is off-balance. I once found a small boy masturbating in the presence of the Victorian steel-engraving in a family Bible. Anthony Burgess
Inside, my soul became so cold I hated everything. I even despised the sun, for I knew I would never be able to play in its warm presence. I cringed with hate whenever I heard other children laughing, as they played outside. My stomach coiled whenever I smelled food that was about to be served to somebody else, knowing it wasn't for me. Dave Pelzer
A billion stars go spinning through the night, / glittering high above your head, / But in you is the presence that will be / when all the stars are dead. Rainer Maria Rilke
Robert Schumann quote: "Play always as if in the presence of a master."
Play always as if in the presence of a master. Robert Schumann
Unless you call attention to your presence who will know you're there? Even a country has to weave and wave a flag as proof of its existence. Rod McKuen
I sincerely hope I’ll never fathom you. You’re mystical, serene, intriguing; you enclose such charm within you. The lustre of your presence bewitches me. I like the unreality of your mind; the whole thing is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd. It is not mere words on paper, Mrs. Nicholson, it is both my mind and heart addressing you. Virginia Woolf
The thing was, Mitchell now knew what Merton meant, or thought he did. As he took in the marvelous sights, the dusty Polo grounds, the holy cows with their painted horns, he got into the habit of walking around Calcutta in the presence of God. Furthermore, it seemed to Mitchell that this didn't have to be a difficult thing. It was something every child knew how to do, maintain a direct and full conversation with the world. Somehow you forgot about is as you grew up, and had to learn it again. Jeffrey Eugenides
My continuing passion is to part a curtain, that invisible veil of indifference that falls between us and that blinds us to each other's presence, each other's wonder, each other's human plight. Eudora Welty
Gratitude, and many associations, all pleasurable and genial, made his face the object I best liked to see; his presence in a room was more cheering than the brightest fire. Charlotte Bronte
It looked like a colour, but also... like a bruise or a secretion, like an oozing-and something else, an odour, for example, it melted into the odour of wet earth, warm, moist wood, into a black odour that spread like varnish over this sensitive wood, in a flavour of chewed, sweet fibre. I did not simply see this black: sight is an abstract invention, a simplified idea, one of man's ideas. That black, amorphous, weakly presence, far surpassed sight, smell and taste. But this richness was lost... Jean-Paul Sartre
Sweetness cloys. Tart fruit and tart women give life its savor...Daenerys, sweet queen, I cannot tell you what a pleasure it gives me to bask once more in your presence. George R. R. Martin

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