"From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers."

Heart, Bitterness, Delight, Flowers

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"From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers."

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"And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes."

James Joyce, Irish Novelist

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"There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian Author

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"Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable."

James A. Baldwin, American Author

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"Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books."

William Cowper, English Poet

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"Sometimes I enjoy just photographing the surface because I think it can be as revealing as going to the heart of the matter."

Annie Leibovitz, American Photographer

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"True love asks no question of the heart. It knows with surety."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?"

William Cowper, English Poet

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"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to."

Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese Philosopher

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"The sum of all sums is eternity."

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"What is food to one man is bitter poison to others."

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"We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another."

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"Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion."

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"Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life."

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