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The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
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Daniel Defoe
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The tears of those who cry for others shine more than the diamonds.
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Diamonds are a girl's best friend.
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Jule Styne (The Songs of Jule Styne)
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The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.
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B.K.S. Iyengar (Light on Life)
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If there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it walls, and we will furnish it with soft, red interiors, from the inside out, and give it a knocker that resonates like a diamond falling to a jeweller's felt so that we should never hear it. Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does.
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Jonathan Safran Foer (Everything Is Illuminated)
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I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.
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Mae West
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Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Look at that sea, girls--all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds.
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1))
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Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.
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Terry Pratchett (The Truth: Stage Adaptation)
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You wander from room to room
Hunting for the diamond necklace
That is already around your neck!
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Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
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True friends are like diamonds β bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.
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Nicole Richie
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I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
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Emma Goldman
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You deserve every star in the galaxy laid out at your feet and a thousand diamonds in your hair. You deserve someone who'll run with you as far and as fast as you want to. Holding your hand, not holding you back.
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Jay Kristoff (Illuminae (The Illuminae Files, #1))
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Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.
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Dolly Parton
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A real diamond is never perfect.
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Anthony Doerr (All the Light We Cannot See)
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I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
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Zsa Zsa Gabor
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Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust
Like diamonds we are cut with our own dust
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John Webster
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Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its fruit was diamonds. It attracted human beings who killed each other around the roots and made very good fertilizer.
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (Slaughterhouse-Five)
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As a lamp, a cataract, a star in space
an illusion, a dewdrop, a bubble
a dream, a cloud, a flash of lightning
view all created things like this.
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Red Pine (The Diamond Sutra)
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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
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Confucius
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Whenever someone who knows you disappears, you lose one version of yourself. Yourself as you were seen, as you were judged to be. Lover or enemy, mother or friend, those who know us construct us, and their several knowings slant the different facets of our characters like diamond-cutter's tools. Each such loss is a step leading to the grave, where all versions blend and end.
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Salman Rushdie (The Ground Beneath Her Feet)
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Have you ever fought an opponent you had no defense against? Like a fire breather or an acid spitter?"
"Once I faced a female with diamond skin," Nix said breathlessly. "I was transfixed - even as she was choking the life out of me."
"Really?"
"No, I saw that character on X-Men. I just wanted to commiserate. Alas, I have no weaknesses.
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Kresley Cole (Pleasure of a Dark Prince (Immortals After Dark, #8))
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A joker is a little fool who is different from everyone else. He's not a club, diamond, heart, or spade. He's not an eight or a nine, a king or a jack. He is an outsider. He is placed in the same pack as the other cards, but he doesn't belong there. Therefore, he can be removed without anybody missing him.
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Jostein Gaarder (The Solitaire Mystery)
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Do not stand at my grave and weep;
I am not there. I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glints on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the morningβs hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry;
I am not there. I did not die.
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Mary Elizabeth Frye
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I prefer by far the warmth and softness to mere brilliancy and coldness. Some people remind me of sharp dazzling diamonds. Valuable but lifeless and loveless. Others, of the simplest field flowers, with hearts full of dew and with all the tints of celestial beauty reflected in their modest petals.
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AnaΓ―s Nin (The Early Diary of AnaΓ―s Nin, Vol. 2: 1920-1923)
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Once upon a time, there was a boy. He lived in a village that no longer exists, in a house that no longer exists, on the edge of a field that no longer exists, where everything was discovered, and everything was possible. A stick could be a sword, a pebble could be a diamond, a tree, a castle. Once upon a time, there was a boy who lived in a house across the field, from a girl who no longer exists. They made up a thousand games. She was queen and he was king. In the autumn light her hair shone like a crown. They collected the world in small handfuls, and when the sky grew dark, they parted with leaves in their hair.
Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.
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Nicole Krauss (The History of Love)
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The difference between stupid and intelligent people β and this is true whether or not they are well-educated β is that intelligent people can handle subtlety.
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Neal Stephenson (The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer)
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There are different wells within your heart.
Some fill with each good rain,
Others are far too deep for that.
In one well
You have just a few precious cups of water,
That "love" is literally something of yourself,
It can grow as slow as a diamond
If it is lost.
Your love
Should never be offered to the mouth of a
Stranger,
Only to someone
Who has the valor and daring
To cut pieces of their soul off with a knife
Then weave them into a blanket
To protect you.
There are different wells within us.
Some fill with each good rain,
Others are far, far too deep
For that.
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The Divan
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Itβs the opportunity of a lifetime,β said Ito finally, who had been keeping very quietβ¨up to this point.β¨βIndeed. How much will it cost?β asked Brownβ¨βAbout twenty million Interplanetary Credits,β said Demba. βA modest investment forβ¨a man of your means.ββ¨βIndeed,β said Brown again. That was all the money he had, which started to strikeβ¨him as strange, when his thoughts were interrupted.β¨βWeβll arrange a visit to the mine,β said Ito. βShow you the place itself.ββ¨βIndeed,β said Brown. Or had he said that? The strange waking memory he had fallenβ¨into started to become repetitive. Reality started to flow back in.β¨Diamonds, thought Brown. All those diamonds in that mine.
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Max Nowaz (The Arbitrator)
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The Genius Of The Crowd
there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average
human being to supply any given army on any given day
and the best at murder are those who preach against it
and the best at hate are those who preach love
and the best at war finally are those who preach peace
those who preach god, need god
those who preach peace do not have peace
those who preach peace do not have love
beware the preachers
beware the knowers
beware those who are always reading books
beware those who either detest poverty
or are proud of it
beware those quick to praise
for they need praise in return
beware those who are quick to censor
they are afraid of what they do not know
beware those who seek constant crowds for
they are nothing alone
beware the average man the average woman
beware their love, their love is average
seeks average
but there is genius in their hatred
there is enough genius in their hatred to kill you
to kill anybody
not wanting solitude
not understanding solitude
they will attempt to destroy anything
that differs from their own
not being able to create art
they will not understand art
they will consider their failure as creators
only as a failure of the world
not being able to love fully
they will believe your love incomplete
and then they will hate you
and their hatred will be perfect
like a shining diamond
like a knife
like a mountain
like a tiger
like hemlock
their finest art
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Charles Bukowski