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• Even her hair, she thought, running her fingers impatiently through the damp golden brown ringlets that curled romantically around her face. A Botticelli angel, a boy in college once called her, begging her to let it grow. Right! That was all she needed: wild curls cascading down her back like a doomed Shakespearian virgin, or a rock star.

  Naomi Ragen

  Music, Running, Stars

  Naomi Ragen (2001). “The Ghost of Hannah Mendes”, p.70, Macmillan

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• Days go by when I do nothing but underline the damp edge of myself.

  Mary Szybist

  Bordes

  Mary Szybist (2013). “Incarnadine: Poems”, p.23, Macmillan

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• La tiranía trae consigo la ignorancia y la brutalidad. Degrada a los hombres de su justo rango a la clase de los brutos; embota sus espíritus; suprime el arte; extingue toda chispa de noble ardor y generosidad en los pechos de quienes están esclavizados por ella; hace débiles y pequeñas las mentes naturalmente fuertes y grandes, y triunfa sobre las ruinas de la virtud y la humanidad.

  Jonathan Mayhew

  Art, Strong, Ignorance

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• She blinked, sat up, and saw Chris in the bathroom doorway. He'd just gotten out the shower. His hair was damp, and he was dressed only in his briefs. The sight of his thin, boyish body - all ribs and elbows and knees - pulled at her heart, for he looked so innocent and vulnerable. He was so small and fragile that she wondered how she could ever protect him, and renewed fear rose in her.

  Dean Koontz

  Fear, Heart, Hair

  Dean Koontz (2003). “Lightning”, p.230, Penguin

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• A demd, damp, moist, unpleasant body!

  Charles Dickens

  Cuerpo

  Nicholas Nickleby ch. 34 (1839)

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• You should look at certain walls stained with damp, or at stones of uneven color. If you have to invent some backgrounds you will be able to see in these the likeness of divine landscapes, adorned with mountains, ruins, rocks, woods, great plains, hills and valleys in great variety; and expressions of faces and clothes and an infinity of things which you will be able to reduce to their complete and proper forms. In such walls the same thing happens as in the sound of bells, in whose stroke you may find every named word which you can imagine.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Wall, Creativity, Clothes

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• Memory's so treacherous. One moment you're lost in a carnival of delights with poignant childhood aromas, the flashing neon on puberty, all that sentimental candyfloss. The next, it leads you somewhere you don't want to go.. Somewhere dark and cold, filled with the damp ambiguous shapes of things you'd hoped were forgotten.

  Alan Moore

  Memories, Dark, Childhood

  "Batman: The Killing Joke". Graphic novel by Alan Moore, 1988.

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• If we address frankly what is evoked by cheese, I think it becomes clear why so little is said. So what does cheese evoke? Damp dark cellars, molds, mildews and mushrooms galore, dirty laundry and high school locker rooms, digestive processes and visceral fermentations, he-goats which do not remind of Chanel ... In sum, cheese reminds of dubious, even unsavory places, both in nature and in our own organisms. And yet we love it.

  Michael Pollan

  Dirty, School, Dark

  Michael Pollan (2013). “Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation”, p.222, Penguin

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• Some burn damp faggots, others may consume The entire combustible world in one small room.

  William Butler Yeats

  Small Rooms, World, May

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.110, Wordsworth Editions

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• Esto es lo que haces en tu primer día en París. Te consigues, no una llovizna, sino un poco de lluvia de verdad, y te encuentras a alguien muy agradable y la llevas en taxi por el Bois de Boulogne. La lluvia es muy importante. Es cuando París huele más dulce. Son los castaños húmedos.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Nice, Rain, Paris

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• ...unless the grace of God comes to the help of our frailty, to protect and defend it, no man can withstand the insidious onslaughts of the enemy nor can he damp down or hold in check the fevers which burn in our flesh with nature's fire.

  Juan Casiano

  Christian, Men, Fire

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• I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids Sprouting despondently at area gates.

  T. S. Eliot

  Soul, Gates, Housemaids

  'Morning at the Window' (1917)

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• Y cuando una humedad cayó alrededor del camino de Milton, en su mano la cosa se convirtió en una trompeta; de donde sopló acordes que animaban el alma, ¡ay! demasiado pocos.

  William Wordsworth

  Manos, Alma, Camino

  William Wordsworth (1847). "Los poemas de William Wordsworth", p.203

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• Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul; and thus it may be looked on as weakness in the composition of human nature. But if we consider the frequent relieves we receive from it and how often it breaks the gloom which is apt to depress the mind and damp our spirits, with transient, unexpected gleams of joy, one would take care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life.

  Malcolm De Chazal

  Life, Wise, Depressing

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• Si algún hombre ha bebido demasiado de la copa del placer físico; si ha pasado demasiado tiempo en su escritorio que debería haber pasado durmiendo; si su fino espíritu se ha embotado temporalmente; si encuentra el aire demasiado húmedo, los minutos demasiado lentos y la atmósfera demasiado pesada para soportarlo; si está obsesionado por una idea fija que le impide cualquier libertad de pensamiento: si es alguna de estas pobres criaturas, decimos, que se le dé una buena pinta de chocolate con sabor a ámbar... y se harán maravillas.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Comida, Hombres, Aire

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2009). "La fisiología del gusto: o Meditaciones sobre gastronomía trascendental", p.121, Vintage

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• I am reminded, now, of Leonardo's advice to painters: You should fix your eyes, he says, on certain walls stained with damp. You will see in these the likenesses of divine landscapes, adorned with mountains, ruins, rocks, extensive plains; and you will see there battles and strange figures engaged in violent actions. For in such walls the same thing happens as in the sound of church bells, in whose reverberations you may find every word imaginable.

  Ciaran Carson

  Wall, Eye, Church Bells

  Ciaran Carson (2001). “Shamrock Tea”, Granta Books

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• Era una turbia confusión -aquí y allá manchada de un color parecido al del humo del combustible húmedo- de nubes voladoras levantadas en montones de lo más notables, que sugerían mayores alturas en las nubes que profundidades por debajo de ellas hasta el fondo de los más hondos huecos de la tierra, por los que la luna salvaje parecía precipitarse de cabeza, como si, en una espantosa perturbación de las leyes de la naturaleza, hubiera perdido el rumbo y estuviera asustada.

  Charles Dickens

  Naturaleza, Luna, Nubes

  Charles Dickens (1850). "La historia personal de David Copperfield0: En tres volúmenes", p.265

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• I am at the moment deaf in the ears, hoarse in the throat, red in the nose, green in the gills, damp in the eyes, twitchy in the joints and fractious in temper from a most intolerable and oppressive cold.

  Charles Dickens

  Health, Eye, Noses

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.14344, Delphi Classics

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• Lleva en su pata derecha la pala que excava hasta la verdad bajo las apariencias, corta las raíces de los apegos inútiles y arroja arena húmeda sobre los fuegos de la codicia y la guerra; Su pata izquierda en el Mudra de la Muestra de Camaradería - indicando que todas las criaturas tienen pleno derecho a vivir hasta sus límites y que ciervos, conejos, ardillas listadas, serpientes, dientes de león y lagartos crecen en el reino del Dharma.

  Gary Snyder

  Guerra, Corte, Animal

  Gary Snyder (2009). "Back on the Fire: Essays", p.125, Contrapunto

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• From every Englishman emanates a kind of gas, the deadly choke-damp of boredom.

  Heinrich Heine

  Boredom, Insulting, England

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• As bronze may be much beautified by lying in the dark damp soil, so men who fade in dust of warfare fade fairer, and sorrow blooms their soul.

  Wilfred Owen

  Lying, Dark, Men

  Wilfred Owen, Douglas Kerr (1994). “The Poems of Wilfred Owen”, p.73, Wordsworth Editions

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• You might find it difficult to see anything but your own sadness, the way smoke can cover a landscape so that all anyone can see is black. You may find that if someone pours water all over you, you are damp and distracted, but not cured of your sadness, the way a fire department can douse a fire but never recover what has been burnt down.

  Daniel Handler

  Sad, Fire, Water

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• Games are among the most interesting creations of the human mind, and the analysis of their structure is full of adventure and surprises. Unfortunately there is never a lack of mathematicians for the job of transforming delectable ingredients into a dish that tastes like a damp blanket.

  James R Newman

  Jobs, Adventure, Math

  James R. Newman (1956). “The World of Mathematics”, p.2414, Рипол Классик

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• I can't live without mousse. When my hair is damp I put it at the roots. When I blow dry my hair it makes it so much bouncier. It gives you shampoo commercial hair and makes your blowout so much better.

  Shay Mitchell

  Blow, Roots, Hair

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• El triunfo de la Confederación... sería una victoria para los poderes del mal que infundiría valor a los enemigos del progreso y apagaría los ánimos de sus amigos en todo el mundo civilizado... [La Guerra Civil Americana] está destinada a ser un punto de inflexión, para bien o para mal, en el curso de los asuntos humanos.

  John Stuart Mill

  War, Enemy Of Progress, History

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