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"The basis of optimism is sheer terror." »Oscar Wilde
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"The basis for optimism is sheer terror." »Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
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"I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street." »Virginia Woolf
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"I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street." »Virginia
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"God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom." »Johann von Goethe
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"Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebulience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right." »Donald Culross Peattie
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"Children are entitled to their otherness, as anyone is and when we reach them, as we sometimes do, it is generally on a point of sheer delight, to us so astonishing, but to them so natural." »Alastair Reid
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"Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires I have lost friends, some by death others through sheer inability to cross the street." »Virginia
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"There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living... a way in which life itself is sheer knowing." »Laurens Van der Post, Venture to the Interior (1951)
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"I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom." »Heinrich Heine
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"From the age of six, I have known that I was sexy. And let me tell you it has been hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it." »Bette Davis
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"I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable." »Joseph Addison
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"I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term -- meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching -- there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster." »Ansel Adams
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