#exquisite

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

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It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a model that has served primitive races since men first went to sea. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#canoe #canvas #civilisation #exquisite #find

Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

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The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#being #exquisitely #genius #hence #humour

Humans have evolved to be exquisitely sensitive to changes in status. ↗

— Keith Henson

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Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#become #books #companions #dearest #delights

I read some, and then visited with people involved in this curious, exciting and somewhat misunderstood sub-culture. I met with a fang maker, who offered to fit me for an exquisite pair. ↗

— James Patterson

#exciting #exquisite #fang #fit #i

Some of her last words to me, Mason, were 'I believe in fate and I believe you were supposed to walk into my life, so Mason could walk into yours.” I know she can’t be wrong. ↗

— Ella Frank

#exquisite #lena-o-donnell #mason-langley #life

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival. ↗

— Luis Bunuel

#ever #exquisite #form #invented #known