"Out of the ash I rise with my red hair and I eat men like air."
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"I would rather be ashes than dust."
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"She was up and down—from fire and brimstone to smoke and ashes."
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"Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, if the women don't get you then the whiskey must."
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"Lucifer also has died with God, and from his ashes has arisen a spiteful demon who does not even understand the object of his venture."
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"I wander though China. Without ever having boarded a plane. My travels take place here in the Tokoyo subways, in the backseat of a taxi... all of a sudden this city will start to go. In a flash, the buildings will crumble. Over the Tokyo streets will fall my China, like ash, leaching into everything it touches. Slowly, gradually, until nothing remains. No, this isn't a place for me."
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"All analyses end badly. Each 'termination' leaves the participants with the taste of ashes in their mouths; each is absurd; each is a small, pointless death. Psychoanalysis cannot tolerate happy endings; it casts them off the way the body's immunological system casts off transplanted organs."
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"It should be pointed out that some of the things done after the arrest of the Gang of Four were inconsistent with Chairman Mao's wishes, for instance, the construction of the Chairman Mao Memorial Hall. He had proposed in the fifties that we should all be cremated when we died and that only our ashes be kept, that no remains should be preserved and no tombs built."
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"The past is a bucket of ashes"
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"In a moment the ashes are made, but a forest is a long time growing."
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"I find that I sent wolves not shepherds to govern Ireland, for they have left me nothing but ashes and carcasses to reign over!"
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"Those glories come too late That on our ashes wait."
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"An innings of neurotic violence, of eccentric watchfulness, of brainless impetuosity and incontinent savagery - it was an extraordinary innings, a masterpiece and it secured the Ashes for England [on Pietersen's Ashes winning innings, 2005"
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"A day in which I don't write leaves a taste of ashes."
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"Glory arrives too late when it comes only to one's ashes"
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"Dear friends of Haiti, we are indeed on the right track. Slowly but surely we are rising from the ashes."
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"Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes."
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"Our passions are true phoenixes; as the old burn out the new straight rise up from the ashes."
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"True confessions are written with tears only. But my tears would drown the world, as my inner fire would reduce it to ashes."
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"it is all ash and dry leaves and grief gone like an ocean liner."
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