"Oh my friend, all that you see of me is a shell, the rest belongs to love."
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"The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant."
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"Not only the grounds of the opinion are forgotten in the absence of discussion, but too often the meaning of the opinion itself... Instead of a vivid conception and a living belief, there remain only a few phrases retained by rote; or, if any part, the shell and husk only of the meaning is retained, the finer essence being lost."
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"It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should?"
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"Bernie Ebbers and Ken Lay were caricatures - they were easy to spot. They were almost psychopaths. But it's much harder to spot problems at companies like Royal Dutch [Shell]."
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"Compassion for the friend should conceal itself under a hard shell."
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"The shell must be cracked apart if what is in it is to come out, for if you want the kernel you must break the shell."
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"...she merely wished to find a way out of the maze. She knew that she had become a burden to him: she took things too seriously, turning everything into a tragedy, and failed to grasp the lightness and amusing insignificance of physical love. How she wished she could learn lightness! She yearned for someone to help her out of her anachronistic shell."
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"The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin."
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"If you seek the kernel, then you must break the shell. An likewise, if you would know the reality of Nature, you must destroy the appearance, and the farther you go beyond the appearance, the nearer you will be to the essence."
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"She still felt shell-shocked by all of it, numb. Beneath the numbness, though, was a raw and terrible anger that was unlike anything she'd felt before. She had so little experience with genuine anger that it scared her. She actually worried that if she started screaming, she'd never stop."
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"Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- to be sucked back -- into it?"
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"E canchis amnia. Everything from shells."
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"If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would eat chickens i' th' shell."
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"It's one thing for a person to live his life as a vacuous shell without fully comprehending the extent of his transgressions, but I was guilty of the greater sin; I knew what was right, and I chose to reject it."
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"Hoping they bury me with ammunition, weed, and shells. Just in case."
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"The silence drew off, baring the pebbles and shells and all the tatty wreckage of my life."
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"One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits will be found on the writing table."
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"Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells."
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"Nature has neither kernel Nor shell"
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