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"You are ice and fire the touch of you burns my hands like snow."
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"My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet."
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"It takes two flints to make a fire."
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"There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism."
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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."
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"Storytelling is what lights my fire."
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"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."
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"The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes."
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"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course."
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"My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?"
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"What is emitted from the divine, though it be only like the reflection from the fire, still has the divine reality in itself, and one might almost ask what were the fire without glow, the sun without light, or the Creator without the creature?"
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"Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation."
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"For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives."
Life

"Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils."
Will

"Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give."
Earth

"A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men."
Man

"Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness."
Poetry

"I am tired, beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little ink drops, and posting it. And I scald alone, here, under the fire of the great moon."
Heart

"Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in."
Art

"All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words."
Dream

"Youth condemns; maturity condones."
Age
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