"We are like travelers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs."

Metaphor, Travel, Survival, Adaptation

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"We have the St. Vitus' dance, and cannot possibly keep our heads still."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"A bull that allows a he goat to deter it from moving forward is nothing but a mere he goat."

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"Most people who lose their lives because life might be down for them only refuse to know what a tuber of yam that is put into the soil goes through before it comes up as a fresh green creeping plant to bear yet another bigger tuber."

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"Your this beautiful ship that will sail a long way, and I'd only be your anchor""A ship without an anchor can never be at rest."

Dean Koontz, American Author

Metaphor, Rest, Support, Relationship

"For I am a drop of water, I may change but I will never vanish in thin air."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Metaphor, Water, Change, Vanishing

"She felt like Captain Ahab, for the first time sighting his great white whale."

Stephen King, American Author

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Philip K. Dick, American Writer

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"There was once a time when darkness shrouded the world, and the darkness had a queen."

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"The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself."

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"We acquire the strength we have overcome."

Strength

"Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images, or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin."

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"If you would lift me you must be on a higher ground."

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"We have the St. Vitus' dance, and cannot possibly keep our heads still."

"A bull that allows a he goat to deter it from moving forward is nothing but a mere he goat."

"Most people who lose their lives because life might be down for them only refuse to know what a tuber of yam that is put into the soil goes through before it comes up as a fresh green creeping plant to bear yet another bigger tuber."

"Your this beautiful ship that will sail a long way, and I'd only be your anchor""A ship without an anchor can never be at rest."

"For I am a drop of water, I may change but I will never vanish in thin air."

"She felt like Captain Ahab, for the first time sighting his great white whale."

"Until you press the switch button of the light in your room on, you shall always have light in your room and still leave in darkness."

"A sheep in wolves clothing!"

"There are people among us who are biologically human but who are androids in the metaphoric sense."

"There was once a time when darkness shrouded the world, and the darkness had a queen."

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"The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself."

"We acquire the strength we have overcome."

"Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images, or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin."

"If you would lift me you must be on a higher ground."

"A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches."

"You become what you think about all day long."

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