"The capacity to be overwhelmed by the beautiful is astonishingly sturdy and survives amidst the harshest distractions."
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"You can sit in front of a computer and have a blank slate and be completely overwhelmed by the possibilities and not get anywhere."
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"[The captain] looked at Florentino Ariza, his invincible power, his intrepid love and was overwhelmed by the belated suspicion that it is life, more than death, that has no limits."
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"The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time."
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"For life: it is rather a determination not to be overwhelmed. For work: the truth can only be recalled, never invented."
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"The whole point to American journalism is what ought to be true is true. Since I ought to be arrogant, impressed with my social position, overwhelmed by my beauty, therefore I am."
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"Since I ought to be arrogant, impressed with my social position, overwhelmed by my beauty, therefore I am. Actually I was never my own type so I completely missed my beauty all through my youth. I have no social position and I stay away from what is known as society as much as possible. But people like to re-invent you, according to cliché."
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"Gardening is not something to get on your high horse about or be overwhelmed by. Either you enjoy it or you don't."
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