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Helen Jane Waddell (31 May 1889 – 5 March 1965) was an Irish poet, translator and playwright.

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But what was the desire of the flesh beside the desire of the mind?

Desire, Flesh, Mind

Being a sick man is like being a log caught in a stream, Gilles. All the straws gather around it.

Illness, Log, Men, Sick, Straws, Stream

for. . . austere and gracious allegory, as for so much of its mysticism and its chivalry, its ardours and its endurances, the world is in debt to Spain.

Allegory, Debt, Europe, Spain

Shipwreck in youth is sorrowful enough, but one looks for storms at the spring equinox. Yet it is the September equinox that drowns.

Enough, Looks, September, Shipwreck, Spring, Storm

Truth has as many coats as an onion. . . and each one of them hollow when you peel it off.

Coats, Onion, Onions, Peel, Truth

. . . was there no one over thirty-five who had not some secret agony, some white-faced fear? Half one's life one walked carelessly, certain that some day one would have one's heart's desire: and for the rest of it, one either goes empty, or walks carrying a full cup, afraid of every step.

Agony, Certain, Empty, Heart, Walked, White

It is only the happy who are hard, Gilles. I think perhaps it is better for the world if - if one has a broken heart. One is quick to recognise it, elsewhere. And one has time to think about other people, if there is nothing left to hope for any more.

Compassion, Heart, Hope, Quick, Thinking

Simon Birch

Simon Birch

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Geoffrey Fisher

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Bela Kun

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Cindy Nelson

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Leon Botstein

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Werner Heisenberg

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Thomas Suozzi

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Al MacInnis

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Fulgentius of Cartagena

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Dieter Dengler

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Steve Cropper

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Jeff Healey