Dust Quotes
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Raking over the past and sifting its dust is an occupation for the idle or the elderly retired.
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But then the girl moved, and smiled, and pulled her hand from the grate- a gorgeous green stone clutched tightly in her grasp. It was covered with dust and cobwebs, but it was uncracked and unharmed. And, of course, completely fake.
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Reading between the lines, I got the impression of dull domesticity that had settled upon them like fine dust.
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Jazz washes away the dust of every day life.
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Mask your brightness. Be at one with the dust of the earth. This is primal union.
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Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.
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For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust and ashes, which are shattered into fragments; and if you have no other life, you just have to build one up out of these fragments.
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Some people have enough dust on their bibles to write damnation on it.
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There had come to him one of those moments of quiet despair that lie in wait for even the happiest. Stealthy-footed they leap upon us, as we walk along the street, as we sit at evening with fruit and wine upon the table and laughter on our lips, as we wake suddenly from sleep in the hour before dawn; neither at our work nor our play nor our prayers are we safe, those moments can leap at any time out of the blackness around human life and suddenly the colors that we have nailed to our mast are there no longer and all that we have grasped is dust.
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Stick a needle in your arm, you bite the dust, you buy the farm.
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And I know now that all the time I was trying to get out of the dust, the fact is, what I am, I am because of the dust. And what I am is good enough. Even for me.
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Particular nuisances (are) smoke, sewage odours, dust and similar aerosols, and vibrations.
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Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. Halleluiah amen, you are dismissed.
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But as it is to the dust that we go down at death, so it is from the dust that we arise at the resurrection.
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And no. I must not go on thinking. For the pain will never go away. You just go on and live. In the dust of desertion. Still falling where last I loved.
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I'm sad about it. I really thought Nicollette was a shoo-in. In terms of Eva, my prediction is she's leaving us all in the dust.
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New ways of seeing can disclose new things: the radio telescope revealed quasars and pulsars, and the scanning electron microscope showed the whiskers of the dust mite. But turn the question around: Do new things make for new ways of seeing?
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Art sweeps the everyday dust from your soul.
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Whatever is a cruel wrong, Whatever is unjust, The honest years that speed along Will trample in the dust.
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I was at Yankee Stadium one time at 5 a.m., but that was to buy angel dust.
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Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.
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Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants; each claiming truth, And truth disclaiming both.
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All actions without love are just like dust in the air.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
