"Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe, love is a banquet on which we feed."
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"Travelling to past lives is like making a hole in the floor and letting the flames of the fire in the apartment below scorch and burn the present"
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"Whenever he saw the sea, or a fire, he fell silent, impressed by their elemental force."
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"Woe is me! The winged words on which my soul would pierce Into the heights of love's rare universe, Are chains of lead around its flight of fire-- I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire."
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"Someone could walk into this room and say your life is on fire."
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"Langdon whispered to Vittoria. 'Ever fire anything other than a tranquilizer gun?' 'Don't you trust me?' 'Trust you? I barely know you.' Vittoria frowned. 'And here I thought we were newly-weds."
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"the islands of Italy combine all the elements - fire, water, earth, and air - and that is irresistible."
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"The loss of a job may be the wake up-call needed to redeem the fire of your genius."
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"If Bob Barr (conservative republican congressman from Georgia) caught on fire and I was holding a bucket of water, it would be great act of discipline to pour it on him. I would do it, but I'd hate myself in the morning."
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"Souls made of fire, and children of the sun, With whom revenge is virtue."
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"In the beginning was belief, foolish belief, and faith, empty faith, and illusion, the terrible illusion. ... We believed in God, had faith in man, and lived with the illusion that in each one of us is a sacred spark from the fire of the shekinah, that each one carried in his eyes and in his soul the sign of God. This was the source—if not the cause—of all our misfortune."
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"And Marlowe, Webster, Fletcher, Ben, Whose fire-hearts sowed our furrows when The world was worthy of such men."
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"It was like time would stop, and the dancer would sort of step through some kind of portal and he wasn't doing anything different than he had ever done, 1,000 nights before, but everything would align. And all of a sudden, he would no longer appear to be merely human. He would be lit from within, and lit from below and all lit up on fire with divinity. And when this happened, back then, people knew it for what it was, you know, they called it by it's name. They would put their hands together and they would start to chant, "Allah, Allah, Allah, God God, God." That's God, you know."
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"I think how badly things can go wrong in our judicial system. All it took was one person saying that this was a deliberately set fire, and then a whole chain of information became malevolent.Criminal past - that worked all in their favor to create this "monster" - and they even used the word "monster." It's like, let's ensure that the public thinks he's an evil individual."
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"There was really only one person who - and I remember to this day - he was a fireman, and he said, "You'll never know what you'll do when you're in a fire." Everyone else was like: "I don't care; I would have saved my children; I could have done it. Even if I was asleep I would have woken up and saved my children." But the fireman said, "You never know what's going to happen unless you're in there.""
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"An aphorism? Fire without flames. Understandable that no one tries to warm himself at it."
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"You cannot put a fire out! A thing that can ignite can go itself- without a flame- E'en through the darkest night!"
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"Spit fire from my hammer like I wasn't God's child."
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"The mob gets out of hand, runs wild, worse than raging fire, while the man who stands apart is called a coward."
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"Quiet this metal! Let the manes put off their terror, let them put off their aqueous bodies with fire. Let them assume the milk-white bodies of agate. Let them draw together the bones of the metal."
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