"One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it."
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"When she had gone upstairs, he walked to a window and stood looking up at the sky. His head thrown back, he felt the pull of his throat muscles and he wondered whether the peculiar solemnity of looking at the sky comes, not from what one contemplates, but from that uplift of one's head."
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"God is gracious to some very peculiar people."
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"The most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of a lie is a half truth. This is the peculiar device of a conscientious detractor."
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"The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with."
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"Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established; the characters already exist. You don't have to bring the characters to life, but you do have to make them more convincing."
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"The shaman is a very peculiar figure. He is critical to the functioning of the psychological and social life of his community, but in a way he is always peripheral to it. He lives at the edge of the village. He is only called upon in matters of great social crisis. He is feared and respected. And this might be a description of these hallucinogenic substances."
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"Every man may be observed to have a certain strain of lamentation, some peculiar theme of complaint on which he dwells in his moments of dejection."
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"It was his peculiar happiness that he scarcely ever found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend; but it must likewise be added, that he had not often a friend long without obliging him to become a stranger."
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"No one supposed that dinoflagellates might actively kill fish as an evolved response for their own specific advantage, including a potential nutritional benefit for the algal cells. And yet the dinoflagellates do seem to be killing and eating fishes in a manner suggesting active evolution for this most peculiar reversal."
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"Oh Lion in a peculiar guise, Sharp Roman road to Paradise, Come eat me up, I'll pay thy toll With all my flesh, and keep my soul."
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"Each one has a special nature peculiar to himself which he must follow and through which he will find his way to freedom"
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"The Hindus have a peculiar slovenliness in business matters, not being sufficiently methodical and strict in keeping accounts etc."
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"It was on the corner of the street that he noticed the first sign of something peculiar - a cat reading a map."
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"He had seen me several times, and had intended to call on me long before, but a peculiar combination of circumstances had prevented it."
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"I came to the conclusion that people were just peculiar, I withdrew from them, and never thought about them until I was forced to."
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"I use all sorts of things to work with: old brooms, old sweaters, and all kinds of peculiar tools and materials... I paint to excite myself, and make something for myself."
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"The most wonderful street in the universe is Broadway. It is a world within itself. High and low, rich and poor, pass along at a rate peculiar to New York, and positively bewildering to a stranger."
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"... what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be told truthfully."
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"The signal instances of Providential goodness which we have experienced and which have now almost crowned our labors with complete success demand from us in a peculiar manner the warmest returns of gratitude and piety to the Supreme Author of all good."
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