"The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further."

Fire, Old, Road, Want

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"The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool."

Ovid, Roman Poet

Fire, Man, May, Will

"My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

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"It takes two flints to make a fire."

Louisa May Alcott, American Novelist

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"Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation."

Robert Hall, English Clergyman

Fire, Name, Names, Right

"The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire."

Edgar Allan Poe, American Poet

Fire, Reason, World

"Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire."

Solomon Ibn Gabirol, Spanish Poet

Fire, Jealousy

"I realized, when I saw the forest burning, how fascinating the firelight is. It's beautiful, and people stare at it, don't they? It destroys and kills people, but humans love it. Is it because they crave their own destruction, Sam? I want to understand your kind. I am going out into the wider world, and I must learn."

Michael Grant, American Author

Fire, Destruction, Beauty, Curiosity

"Today I make time to release any burdens that I carry. One by one I release them into the atmosphere, until my body is in a complete state of calm."

Renae A. Sauter, American Writer

Fire, Release, Healing, Peace, Mindfulness

"They were fun days, and we set the town on fire with every movie we did."

Burt Lancaster, American Actor

Fire, Fun

"I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly."

Ty Cobb, American Athlete

Fire, Interest, Losing

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"At the same time all the houses round about promptly took part in this silence, and so did the darkness above them, reaching as far as the stars. And the footsteps of invisible passers-by, whose course I had no wish to guess at, the wind that kept on driving against the other side of the street, the gramophone singing behind closed windows in some room - they made themselves heard in this silence, as if they had owned it for ever and ever."

Atmosphere

"A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us."

Sea

"No sooner said than done - so acts your man of worth."

Man

"I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones. Basically it is nothing other than this fear we have so often talked about, but fear spread to everything, fear of the greatest as of the smallest, fear, paralyzing fear of pronouncing a word, although this fear may not only be fear but also a longing for something greater than all that is fearful."

Philosophical

"I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness."

Introspection

"Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery."

Parenting

"I felt so weak and unhappy that I buried my face in the ground: I could not bear the strain of seeing around me the things of the earth. I felt convinced that every movement and every thought was forced, and that one had to be on one's guard against them."

Despair

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"The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool."

"My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet."

"It takes two flints to make a fire."

"Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation."

"The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire."

"Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire."

"Today I make time to release any burdens that I carry. One by one I release them into the atmosphere, until my body is in a complete state of calm."

"They were fun days, and we set the town on fire with every movie we did."

"I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly."

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"A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us."

"No sooner said than done - so acts your man of worth."

"I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness."

"L'Éternité, c'est long ... surtout vers la fin."

"Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair."

"In the fight between you and the world, back the world."

"Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery."

"I felt so weak and unhappy that I buried my face in the ground: I could not bear the strain of seeing around me the things of the earth. I felt convinced that every movement and every thought was forced, and that one had to be on one's guard against them."