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  • It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

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  • Boris Pasternak A candle burned on the table, a candle burned... he whispered to himself — the beginning of something confused, formless; he hoped that it would take shape of itself. But nothing more came to him.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Carl Sagan After the earth dies, some 5 billion years from now, after it's burned to a crisp, or even swallowed by the Sun, there will be other worlds and stars and galaxies coming into being - and they will know nothing of a place once called Earth.
    Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Every burned book enlightens the world.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Buddha Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • George Bernard Shaw If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Ayatollah Khomeini If one commits the act of sodomy with a cow, an ewe, or a camel, their urine and their excrements become impure, and even their milk may no longer be consumed. The animal must then be killed and as quickly as possible and burned.
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  • George Bernard Shaw It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Boris Pasternak It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table; A candle burned.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Louis de Bernieres Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.
    Kapitein Corelli's mandoline (1994)
    Louis de Bernieres
    British novelist (1954 - )
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Passing through the fire of meditation, everything that is not your authentic reality, everything that is borrowed, will be burned away.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Emily Brontë She burned too bright for this world.
    Wuthering Heights (1847)
    Emily Brontë
    British writer, poet (1818 - 1848)
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  • Boris Pasternak Snow, snow over the whole land
    across all boundaries.
    The candle burned on the table,
    the candle burned.
    Doctor Zhivago (1957)
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Ben Stein The banks are not lending, at least from what I see. They were so wild and reckless back in the good times that they got burned terribly.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Those Romans who perpetrated the rape of the Sabines, for example, did not work themselves up for the deed by screening Debbie Does Dallas, and the monkish types who burned a million or so witches in the Middle Ages had almost certainly not come across Boobs and Buns or related periodicals.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that. But perhaps for the right to have our opinions and to change them.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Archibald Macleish What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough had occurred and that a great part of the population of a city had been burned to death, but that the problem of the relation of the triumphs of modern science to the human purposes of man had been explicitly defined.
    Archibald Macleish
    American poet (1892 - 1982)
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  • Sigmund Freud What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Richard Milhous Nixon When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.
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