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• He'd only been gone two seconds, but the room got brighter when they were together, as if they were two elements that became brilliant in proximity. At Sam's clumsy efforts to carry the vacuum, Grace smiled a new smile that I thought only he ever got, and he shot her a withering look full of the sort of subtext you could only get from a lot of conversations whispered after dark. It made me think of Isabel, back at her house. We didn't have what Sam and Grace had. We weren't even close to having it. I didn't think what we had could get to this, even if you gave it a thousand years.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Oscuridad, Pensamiento, Años

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.509, Scholastic Inc.

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• Para la mayoría de los hombres, el tiempo pasa despacio, tan despacio que ni siquiera se dan cuenta. Pero el tiempo se me ha revelado de una manera muy especial. El tiempo es un viento rápido y aullante que pasa furioso a mi lado, marchitándome en una sola e implacable ráfaga, y luego continúa. He estado sentado aquí pasivamente, sumiso a su furia, observando su trabajo. ¡Escuchad! ¡Tiempo, aullido, marchitamiento!

  Bernabé

  Mudanza, Pasado, Hombres

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• Un buen carácter es la mejor lápida.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Bondad, Lápida, Carácter

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" por Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 44), 1895.

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• Si permitís que un solo germen, una sola semilla de esclavitud permanezca en el suelo de América... ese germen brotará, esa hierba nociva prosperará, y de nuevo sofocará el crecimiento, marchitará las hojas, marchitará las flores y envenenará los hermosos frutos de la libertad.

  Ernestine Rose

  Hierba, primavera, flor

  Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). "Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader", The Feminist Press at CUNY.

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• I love kids with a passion I usually reserve for hot cheese, miniature chairs, and Prince concerts, but I feel no stress to reproduce simply because of a fear of withering eggs.

  Olivia Wilde

  Stress, Passion, Kids

  "Olivia Wilde Tells Us Her Dos and Don'ts of Turning 30". www.glamour.com. August 5, 2013.

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• When you finally find the courage to admit you have a problem, that's when you have some power over it. That's the first step. Otherwise you're just withering away, you're like a burning piece of paper getting smaller and smaller.

  Ryan Montgomery

  Burning, Pieces, Paper

  Fuente: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.

  Pitágoras

  Silence, Hazards, Useless

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• Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. Anaïs Nin I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved. George Eliot Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.

  e. e. cummings

  Strong, Stars, Betrayal

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• No matter how bad a state of mind you may get into, if you keep strong and hold out, eventually the floating clouds must vanish and the withering wind must cease.

  Dogen

  Strong, Clouds, Wind

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• Sin embargo, la amistad es una planta que no se puede forzar: la verdadera amistad no es una calabaza que brota en una noche y se marchita en un día.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Spring, Night, Gourds

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• None but the guilty know the withering pains of repentance.

  Hosea Ballou

  Pain, Guilty, Repentance

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• His hair has the long jesuschrist look. He is wearing the costume clothes. But most of all, he now has a very tolerant and therefore withering attitude toward all those who are still struggling in the old activist political ways...while he, with the help of psychedelic chemicals, is exploring the infinite regions of human consciousness.

  Tom Wolfe

  Attitude, Hippie, Struggle

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• Qué lenta
  Esta vieja luna mengua! ella demora mis deseos,
  como una madrastra o una viuda,
  marchitando por largo tiempo los ingresos de un joven.

  William Shakespeare

  Moon, Men, Long

  William Shakespeare (2017). “A Midsummer Night's Dream: Arden Performance Editions”, p.105, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Era otoño, e incesantemente Gorjeaban las codornices de choques y gavillas, Y, como brasas vivas, ardían las manzanas entre las hojas marchitas.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Otoño, Manzanas, Carbón

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). "Las obras poéticas de H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition", p.137

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• Pero la vida es un constante marchitarse de posibilidades. Algunas se roban con la vida de las personas que amas. Otras se dejan ir, con pesar y reticencia y una profunda, profunda tristeza. Pero la compensación por las vidas no vividas es la alegría embriagadora de saber que la vida que tienes -aquí y ahora- es la que has elegido. Hay poder en eso, y esperanza.

  Emily Maguire

  Dejar ir, Arrepentirse, Saber

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• Money is not the issue. Having the courage to give your highest gift is the issue.
  There is no security in doing something for a living when you are dying inside while doing it. That is taking care of the body at the expense of the soul. And a withering soul cannot help but produce a withering body.
  So do not think you are 'taking care of yourself' by killing your spirit to keep your body alive.
  How long will you put off what you are dying to do?

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Thinking, Issues, Long

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Jul 11, 2014

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• It is funny, but it strikes me that a person without anecdotes that they nurse while they live, and that survive them, are more likely to be utterly lost not only to history but the family following them. Of course this is the fate of most souls, reducing entire lives, no matter how vivid and wonderful, to those sad black names on withering family trees, with half a date dangling after and a question mark.

  Sebastian Barry

  Fate, Names, Nurse

  Sebastian Barry (2008). “The Secret Scripture”, p.14, Faber & Faber

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• I remember that one time Carl Sagan was giving a talk, and he spelled out, in a kind of withering succession, these great theories of demotion that science has dealt us, all of the ways in which science is telling us we are not who we would like to believe we are. At the end of it, a young man came up to him and he said: "What do you give us in return? Now that you've taken everything from us? What meaning is left, if everything that I've been taught since I was a child turns out to be untrue?" Carl looked at him and said, Do something meaningful.

  Ann Druyan

  Meaningful, Children, Believe

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• PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. All that is mortal of a departed truth. A jelly-fish withering on the shore of the sea of thought. A desiccated epigram.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Truth, Sea, Departed

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). "El diccionario del diablo: El mundo del diablo", p.165, 谷月社.

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• The sanctified body is one whose hands are clean. The stain of dishonesty is not on them, the withering blight of ill-gotten gain has not blistered them, the mark of violence is not found upon them. They have been separated from every occupation that could displease God or injure a fellow-man.

  A. B. Simpson

  Men, Hands, Fellow Man

  A. B. Simpson (2009). “Wholly Sanctified: Living a Life Empowered by the Holy Spirit”, p.46, Moody Publishers

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• Así que hagamos un trato: si no expresas todos los comentarios mordaces sobre el peso o la inutilidad de esta chaqueta que sin duda se arremolinan en ese gran cerebro tuyo, entonces no volveré a mencionar el episodio del superláser. ¿De acuerdo?" Esta chaqueta me corta mucho los hombros, pensó Artemis. Y pesa tanto que no podría correr más que una babosa. Pero él dijo: "De acuerdo.

  Eoin Colfer

  Corte, Voz, Cerebro

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• Hace cinco décadas, un gran estadounidense, a cuya sombra simbólica nos encontramos hoy, firmó la Proclamación de la Emancipación. Este decreto trascendental llegó como un gran faro de esperanza para millones de esclavos negros que habían sido abrasados por las llamas de la injusticia. Llegó como un alegre amanecer para poner fin a la larga noche de su cautiverio. Pero cien años después, debemos enfrentarnos al trágico hecho de que el negro aún no es libre.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Change, Night, Light

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• [For men] to feel their souls withering within them, unthanked, to find their whole being sunk into an unrecognized abyss, to be counted off into a heap of mechanism numbered with its wheels, and weighed with its hammer strokes - this, nature bade not, - this, God blesses not, - this, humanity for no long time is able to endure.

  John Ruskin

  Men, Long, Political

  John Ruskin (2012). “Selections From the Works of John Ruskin”, p.215, tredition

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• She's pretty." (It's amazing how girls can say this and make it the most withering insult.)

  Ned Vizzini

  Girl, Insult

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• [T]he sprawl of government into every conceivable realm of life has caused the withering of traditional institutions. Fathers become unnecessary if the government provides Aid to Families with Dependent Children. Church charities lose their mission when the government provides food, shelter and income to the poor. And the non-poor no longer feel pressed to provide aid to those in need, be they aged parents or their unfortunate neighbors-"compassion" having become the province of the state.

  Mona Charen

  Children, Father, Compassion

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