They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.
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How pleasant it was in the garden! And how delightful other people's emotions were! -- much more delightful than their ideas, it seemed to him. One's own soul, and the passions of one's friends -- those were the fascinating things in life. He pictured to himself with silent amusement the tedious luncheon that he had missed by staying so long with Basil Hallward. Had be gone to his aunt's, he would have been sure to have met Lord Goodbody there, and the whole conversation would have been about the feeding of the poor and the necessity for model lodging-houses. Each class would have preached the importance of those virtues, for whose exercise there was no necessity in their own lives. The rich would have spoken on the value of thrift, and the idle grown eloquent over the dignity of labour. It was charming to have escaped all that!
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The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos, some of them powerful, almost all of them vociferous, and almost none of them capable of anything much more creative than credit-stealing and self-promotion.
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That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography.
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If you explore beneath shyness or party chit-chat, you can sometimes turn a dull exchange into an intriguing one. I've found this to be particularly true in the case of professors or intellectuals, who are full of fascinating information, but need encouragement before they'll divulge it.
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Gerry, I'm a woman! We don't say what we want! But we do reserve the right to get pissed off if we don't get it. That's what makes us so fascinating! And not a little bit scary.
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The fascinating thing to a dispassionate observer about the structure of life in the Soviet Union is that in their efforts to produce an unkno...
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No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
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He had a big head and a face so ugly it became almost fascinating.
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A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of novelty, the tang of practiced coquetry, and the halo of one man's approval.
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Although most of us know Vincent van Gogh in Arles and Paul Gauguin in Tahiti as if they were neighbors -- somewhat disreputable but endlessly fascinating -- none of us can name two French generals or department store owners of that period. I take enormous pride in considering myself an artist, one of the necessaries.
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It can be a fascinating game, noticing how any person with vitality and vigor will have a little splash of red in a costume, in a room, or in a garden...
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It's been fascinating to watch the Republican response to Al Gore's selection of me, ... Because, honestly, the areas where I agree with George Bush are so much the exception and not the rule.
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All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
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There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
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Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
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Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death--fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous constant.
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None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
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Money is the root of all evil, but the foliage is fascinating.
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Only the really plain people know about love-the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.
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It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
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Butterflies... not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures.
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There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
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This is fascinating! I love this picture! So I know it's going to be a bomb. It's always a disaster when you love something
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Going after the unknown is always fascinating, I think. It becomes part of your life, this desire to know.
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There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
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