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D. H. Lawrence Novelist, Poet

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"What sex is, we don't know, but it must be some sort of fire. For it always communicates a sense of warmth, of glow. And when this glow becomes a pure shine, then we feel the sense of beauty. We all have the fire of sex slumbering or burning inside us. If we live to be ninety, it is still there. Or, if it dies, we become one of those ghastly living corpses which are unfortunately becoming more numerous in the world."

Sex Fire Shining

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Carl Sandburg Poet, Biographer

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"Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets."

Fire Sunset Purple

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Honore de Balzac Novelist

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"Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire."

Fire Genius Flames

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David Walker Artist

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"I may be doomed to the stake and the fire, or to the scaffold tree, but it is not in me to falter if I can promote the work of emancipation."

May Fire Tree

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Charles Bukowski Poet, Novelist

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"I was laying in bed one night and I thought 'I'll just quit - to hell with it.' And another little voice inside me said 'Don't quit - save that tiny little ember of spark.' And never give them that spark because as long as you have that spark, you can start the greatest fire again."

Night Voice Fire

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Stella McCartney Fashion Designer

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"Laugh my friend, for laughter ignites a fire within the pit of your belly and awakens your being."

Fire Laughing Laughter

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Ice T Rapper, Actor

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"...As an artist, you need the naysayers and the nonbelievers to add fuel to your creative fire."

Artist Fire Creative

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Napoleon Hill Author, Motivational Speaker

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"Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire brings a small amount of heat."

Desire Fire Achievement

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Jim Carrey Actor, Comedian

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"Take a chance on faith - not religion, but faith. Not hope, but faith. I don’t believe in hope. Hope is a beggar. Hope walks through the fire. Faith leaps over it."

Believe Fire Have Faith

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Paramahansa Yogananda Spiritual Teacher, Author

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"You may control a mad elephant; You may shut the mouth of the bear and the tiger; Ride the lion and play with the cobra; By alchemy you may learn your livelihood; You may wander through the universe incognito; Make vassals of the gods; be ever youthful; You may walk in water and live in fire; But control of the mind is better and more difficult."

Play Fire Elephants

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Emily Dickinson Poet

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"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry."

Book Fire Reading Poetry

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Saint Augustine Theologian, Philosopher

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"You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run."

Running Fire Going Away

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Simone de Beauvoir Philosopher, Writer

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"Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you've lost that, you've lost everything."

Fire Vigor Lost Everything

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Richard Pryor Comedian, Actor

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"When you're running down the street on fire, people get out of your way!"

People Running Fire

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Robert Louis Stevenson Author, Poet

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"And this shall be for music when no one else is near, The fine song for singing, the rare song to hear! That only I remember, that only you admire, Of the broad road that stretches and the roadside fire."

Song Fire Music

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Franz Kafka Writer

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"Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire."

Night Fire Details

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Martin Luther Theologian

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"Heretics are not to be disputed with, but to be condemned unheard, and whilst they perish by fire, the faithful ought to pursue the evil to its source, and bathe their heads in the blood of the Catholic bishops, and of the Pope, who is the devil in disguise."

Evil Fire Blood

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Buddy Rich Jazz Musician

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"But, when you have to resort to turntables, trick lights, flashing lights, fire and all that, you're actually saying, I need this because what I do is not all that together."

Light Together Fire

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Sylvester Stallone Actor, Filmmaker

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"It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful."

Pain Fire Anxiety

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Heraclitus Philosopher

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"Presumption must be quenched even more than a fire."

Fire Open Minded Openness

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