"It is hard to think of another composer who so perfectly marries form and passion."
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"London is on the whole the most possible form of life."
"The concert is a polite form of self induced torture."
"Life behind all form is one, the expressions of that life are not of very great importance."
"Manners form the great charm of women."
"If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses."
"What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?"
"All writing is a form of prayer."
"Alienation is a form of living death. It is the acid of despair that dissolves society."
"I'm as much interested in the form-making as well as getting you to think about what we're doing to the world around us."
"I'm getting the impression that women, in any form, scare you." He shrugged. "They're the more violent species. And unpredictable. I'd rather take on a wild boar. You can't shoot women."
"Angels are not merely forms of extraterrestrial intelligence. They are forms of extra-cosmic intelligence."
"The rabbit is significant in that the handle on the original South Pointing Chariot was carved in the form of a rabbit. Because the handle extended out front it meant that wherever the rabbit went the chariot had to follow."
"Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy."
"Procrastination is another form of resistance"
"And to imagine a language means to imagine a form of life."
"The form is the possibility of the structure."
"I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost."
"I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community."
"Happiness based on reasons is actually another form of misery."