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I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.
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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.
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I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.
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I can see how a man can look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how he could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.
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I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.
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I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last.
Source: Jane Eyre (1847) ch. 6 -
I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.
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I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
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I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
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I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.
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I can tell by the way somebody walks if they can dance or not. Just by the rhythm.
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I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of programme music - should there be any left - would go mad with joy.
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I can think of a lot better things to do with my hands than to cut them up on the rim of a drum.
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I can think of films that I'm producing right now that are extremely hard-hitting, graphic films, that nobody necessarily wants to see, graphic in terms of violence, of adult content and racial and historical subject matter.
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I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.
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I can think of nothing but this engine.
Source: Letter to Matthew Boulton 29 april 1765. -
I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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