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Letter "D" » dearest
«The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.»
Author: Marguerite Duras
(Film Director, Novelist, Playwright, Screenwriter)
| Keywords:
dearest, nearest, The Search, Utopia
«My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.»
«The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.»
«Peace can be reached through meditation on the knowledge which dreams give. Peace can also be reached through concentration upon that which is dearest to the heart.»
«Those who marry God can become domesticated too / it's just as hum-drum a marriage as all the others. The word ''Love'' means a formal touch of the lips as in the ceremony of the Mass, and ''Ave Maria '' like ''dearest'' is a phrase to open a letter. This marriage like the world's marriages was held together by habits and tastes shared in common between God and themselves / it was God's taste to be worshipped and their taste to worship, but only at stated hours like a suburban embrace on a Saturday night.»
Author: Graham Greene
| Keywords:
Ave, Ave Maria, ceremony, common touch, dearest, domesticate, domesticated, drum, formal, hold dear, Marriages, marriage ceremony, opening ceremony, open letter, Saturday, stated, tastes, worshipped
«Sleep, O sleep, my dearest boy. / I will cradle you, I will guard you.»
«The dearest things in the world are our neighbor's eyes; they cost everybody more than anything else in housekeeping»
Author: Sydney Smith
(Clergyman, Essayist, Wit)
| About:
Neighbors
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dearest, housekeeping
«What is the cheapest to you now is likely to be the dearest to you in the end.»
«Those things are dearest to us that have cost us the most»
«The dearest child of all is the dead one»
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