"Artistic license sneered through the thin fabric."
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"Life, Steffi has learned, carries on around the pain, making room for it, absorbing it until it becomes part of the daily fabric, wrapping itself around you and lodging itself in your heart."
"Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together."
"What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself."
"Egotism is a kind of buckram that gives momentary strength and concentration to men, and seems to be much used in Nature for fabrics in which local and spasmodic energy is required."
"Loss is very painful, because any kind of loss leaves a hole in the fabric of one's existence."
"Lightfoot's voice is such a part of the fabric of Canada, I know it almost as well as I know my own voice."
"The stream of Time, which is continually washing the dissoluble fabrics of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakespeare."
"There's such an advantage to being involved in the day-to-day details of each other's lives. It's a marvelous fabric to exist in."
"Muslims are a part of the fabric of this country. By the way, they always have been, and more so now than ever."
"The unwilling soldier will do anything to fight for a useless fabric piece of ribbon."
"Who can know how much of his most inward life is made up of the thoughts he believes other men to have about him, until that fabric of opinion is threatened with ruin?"
"There are people who are virtuous only in a piece-meal way; virtue is a fabric from which they never make themselves a whole garment."