"There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy."
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"Nothing feebler does earth nurture than man, Of all things breathing and moving."
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"I early became conscious that men breathe more audibly than women. Sit in a room in silence with men and women, and you can always hear the men breathing."
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"When I have neither pleasure nor pain and have been breathing for a while the lukewarm insipid air of these so-called good and tolerable days, I feel so bad in my childish soul that I smash my rusty lyre of thanksgiving in the face of the slumbering god of contentment and would rather feel the most devilish pain burn in me than this warmth of a well-heated room. - Harry Haller"
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"No pictorial or sculptural combinations of points of human loveliness, do more than approach the living and breathing human beauty as it gladdens our daily path."
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"Breathing will change your life! Breathing is the most important thing you will ever do."
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"Do you know why the nose of the bull dog is sloped backwards? So it can keep on breathing without ever letting go."
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"I closed my eyes and he kissed my eyelids, barely brushing them with his lips. I felt safe, at home. I felt as if here, against his body, was the only place in which I belonged. The only place I had ever wanted to be. We lay in silence for a while, holding each other, our skin merging, our breathing synchronized. I felt as if silence might allow the moment to last for ever, which would still not be enough."
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"Art for me is like breathing."
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"Peter would probably throw a party if I stopped breathing.' 'Well,' he says, 'I would only go if there was cake."
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"The vulgarity of inanimate things requires time to get accustomed to; but living, breathing, bustling, plotting, planning, human vulgarity is a species of moral ipecacuanha, enough to destroy any comfort."
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"Louisiana in September was like an obscene phone call from nature. The air - moist, sultry, secretive, and far from fresh - felt as if it were being exhaled into one's face. Sometimes it even sounded like heavy breathing."
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"Got shot 5 times but I'm still breathing... living proof there's a God if you need a reason."
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"Do some yoga. I never feel more beautiful than after I've really spent some time breathing."
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"For me, it's either you're part of creation or you're part of destruction. It's inexplicable; it's like breathing, and I can't imagine not doing it."
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"So sometimes things are ahead and sometimes they are behind; Sometimes breathing is hard, sometimes it comes easily; Sometimes there is strength and sometimes weakness; Sometimes one is up and sometimes down. Therefore the sage avoids extremes, excesses, and complacency."
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"In Hollywood, lying is something that people do like breathing."
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"Time and space recede and blast away like a universe expanding forever outward, and leaving only darkness and the two of us on its periphery, darkness and breathing and touch."
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"We have a lamp inside us. The oil of that lamp is our breathing, our steps, and our peaceful smile. Our practice is to light up the lamp."
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"Go back to the breathing and try to be in that moment deeply. Because there is a possibility to handle every kind of event and the essential is to keep the peace in yourself."
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