"Nothing can be delicious when you are holding your breath."
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"Enthusiasm is the breath of genius."
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"How art thou out of breath when thou hast breath To say to me that thou art out of breath?"
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"Thou weigh'st thy words before thou givest them breath."
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"Direct not him whose way himself will choose; 'Tis breath not lack'st, and that breath wilt thou lose."
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"That our world is so massive that it is completely out of our control, that we cannot possibly be as large as we feel."
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"So small as to be negligible. It's strange, but there's something in that thought that makes me feel almost...free."
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"Truth is scary. Truth has bad breath at times"
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"And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came."
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"A man is nothing but breath and shadow."
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"At the end of my life, with just one breath left, if you come, I’ll sit up and sing."
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"There is nothing but death Our affections can sever, And till life's latest breath Love shall bind us for ever."
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"The delicious breath of rain was in the air."
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"Each breath is transforming me into thine image."
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"The breath of the mind is attention."
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"Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage."
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"But so fair, She takes the breath of men away Who gaze upon her unaware."
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"Poetry and art are the breath of life to her."
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"Vampires probably don't have great breath."
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"Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation."
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