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And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.


Raymond Carver

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For being still. Coupled with this
a desir...
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RAYMOND CARVER I belong to my beloved, and my beloved is mine.
JAMIE MCGUIRE You, in bloom, heart, beloved,
you are like the foliage of the sky over my eyes
and I look...
PABLO NERUDA I’m like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget.
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DEBRA ROBERTS I read a lot of short fiction, like Kurt Vonnegut and Raymond Carver and Wells Tower.
LORDE Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas, greet you.
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POPE BENEDICT XVI Ah! replied my gentle fair, Beloved, what are names but air? Choose thou, whatever suits the ...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE On the journey towards the beloved, you live by dying at every step
NADEEM ASLAM The one who turns his back on the world and its comforts and, sets out on the path that leads to the...
DADA VASWANI Daisy stared worriedly into his shadowed face. “What if you change your mind about me? What if you...
LISA KLEYPAS Not knowing it was hard; knowing it was harder
TONI MORRISON The desire, let alone the gesture,to meet her needs was good enough to loft her spirits to the place...
TONI MORRISON The latter part of her stay in Voronezh had been the happiest period in Princess Marya's life. Her l...
LEO TOLSTOY Oh beloved, Take away what I want. Take away what I do. Take away what I need. Take away everything,...
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STAR JONES I'm able to get by very well in life, and also with my work, without beloved God. But I, a suffering...
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YVETTE NICOLE BROWN I style myself and choose what to wear based on what I feel good in it.
MELANIA TRUMP My beloved is the sun
And I am the earth that thrives only in her warmth. My beloved is the rai...
C.L. WILSON Many times in the Old Testament, God refers to human beings as His beloved. But when God called Jesu...
JONATHAN MARTIN How could she feel nostalgia when he was right in front of her? How can you suffer from the absence ...
MILAN KUNDERA To bee beloved is above all bargaines.
GEORGE HERBERT Meeting their Beloved, they meditate on the True Lord with love and affection.
GURU GOBIND SINGH If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihila...
MANDY PATINKIN O Beloved Lord, I meditate on You continually; I obtain the fruits of my mind's desires.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB I call 'crystallization' that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at ...
STENDHAL I wouldn't call it a special milestone. It's nice, but it's kind of what I expect of myself. Once yo...
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RAYMOND CARVER I have protected you from every person on earth but I forgot to protect you from myself
DALEEN IRSHAID The beloved is the ultimate fetish.
MASON COOLEY I got the call, and I immediately prepared myself for what I had been seeing on TV.
AARON GELOBTER Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ, and Timothy our brother, unto Philemon our dearly beloved, and fel...
BIBLE It's like, Coheed and Cambria meets Beloved,
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IRA GLASS I just want to give myself the best opportunity to show what I can do. I don't want to short-change ...
D'BRICKASHAW FERGUSON Ascension He has gone away, the Well-Beloved, For our sake! He is risen, the Well-Beloved, For our s...
OLIVIER MESSIAEN The Grail is the womb of the beloved.
ROBERT ANTON WILSON Don’t cry,nyonda,” he murmured.
Phillipa took a deep breath. “What does that mean, anyway...
SUZANNE ENOCH I am beloved by millions.
HOWIE MANDEL Smile, my beloved, like the gold smiles from my father's coffers.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Please, ground, just open up and let me fall into an endless crevasse till I hit the center of the e...
CATE TIERNAN He giveth his beloved sleep.
BIBLE I just came in and did what I could to help myself and the team. I did what they asked me to do, and...
BRANDON WATSON Rainwater held on to pine needles for dear life and Beloved could not take her eyes off Sethe.
TONI MORRISON 'Beloved Renegade' is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying.
ROBERT GOTTLIEB Truth is not spoken in anger. Truth is spoken, if it ever comes to be spoken, in love. The gaze of l...
J.M. COETZEE For myself, it was awful. I just didn't feel like myself. I didn't feel like I did when I was in col...
CHRIS KUNITZ The objective of nonviolence is to create a beloved world community.
AMIT RAY Greet Amplias my beloved in the Lord.
BIBLE I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
B. B. KING I wouldn't call myself anti-nuclear.
NAOTO KAN I call myself a geriatric starlet.
IRIS APFEL ... a long silent look can easily substitute all words on Earth and a calm presence of a beloved per...
SVETLANA SHCHEDRINA | LUCKYOPTIMIST I don't call myself Latin, I call myself Puerto Rican.
ROSIE PEREZ Carver did a nice job on the offensive boards early.
DEXTER IRVIN Beloved friends and comrades... the national Libertarian Party is dead.
L. NEIL SMITH Do not err, my beloved brethren.
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KATIE LEE I'm used to comic books being reimagined, different takes on some of our beloved superheroes.
LEN WISEMAN i'm going to brand myself on you so that whenever you dress, wash, or even think of being with someo...
DONNA GRANT My dearly beloved if I am to die today and never see the sweet face of you I want you to know that I...
WILD BILL HICKOK The death of a beloved is an amputation.
C.S. LEWIS Let him love none and be by none beloved!
UNKNOWN I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire...
ALICE WALKER Listen to me brother! bring the vision of the Beloved in your heart
KABIR Persistence is the secret tonic the wise often take to beget beloved success.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I just figured out why someone would want to make the first mirror... I think some lover wanted his ...
JULIA HOBAN Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.
BIBLE I used to beat myself up about weight and working out, and no matter what I did I never felt good ab...
ELLEN DEGENERES For myself, it's out of my control. I can only play my best and see what happens. Obviously I want t...
JOSE THEODORE Fallon, you're my Achilles Heel. I want to fuck you senseless, until you feel me imprinted on you ev...
NAIMA SIMONE Fallon, you’re my Achilles Heel. I want to fuck you senseless, until you feel me imprinted on you ...
NAIMA SIMONE Ah, Catylast, can it be that you do not see all the changes you have made? Some by your resignation ...
ROBIN HOBB Tend to be "Lover", Tend to be "Beloved". Isn't it better to be the same!
LILY, PSYCHIC HEALER to love means to realize there is a time to let the beloved one go
TONY PARSONS To feel not only submitted but willing to be anything or nothing as the Lord wills it - this is, in ...
CHARLES SPURGEON I have the time and the heart to fall and feel in love, but I am scared that I cannot certainly tell...
M.F. MOONZAJER He who confers a benefit on anyone loves him better than he is beloved
ARISTOTLE Jealousy is inconsolable because it cannot know the beloved
MASON COOLEY Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Every beloved object is the center of a paradise.
NOVALIS Hearts melt when the Beloved of Allah is mentioned.
HABIB KADHIM AL-SAQQAF Treat your men as you would your own beloved sons. And they will follow you into the deepest valley.
SUN TZU I do not look at myself. I have given up myself. I had to, you know, after the murder. That was what...
C.S. LEWIS Salute Urbane, our helper in Christ, and Stachys my beloved.
BIBLE Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me
TONI MORRISON What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties
KATHERINE MANSFIELD I don't really want to find myself face-to-face with 10,000 paparazzi. I just want to be comfort...
EMMANUELLE SEIGNER People always did like to talk, didn't they? That's why I call myself a witch now: the Wicked Witch ...
GREGORY MAGUIRE We are disappointed in the official announcement to close our beloved St. Augustine church.
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RAYMOND CHANDLER The most prepared are the most dedicated.
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RAYMOND CHANDLER If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been an...
RAYMOND CHANDLER Its idea of production value is spending a million dollars dressing up a story that any good writer ...
RAYMOND CHANDLER Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artis...
RAYMOND CHANDLER That's one thing I like about Hollywood. The writer is there revealed in his ultimate corruption. He...
RAYMOND CHANDLER They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have devel...
RAYMOND CHANDLER The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art at all, must do so within such strangli...
RAYMOND CHANDLER The overall picture, as the boys say, is of a degraded community whose idealism even is largely fake...
RAYMOND CHANDLER Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid.....
RAYMOND CHANDLER There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are peop...
RAYMOND CHANDLER It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. Th...
RAYMOND CHANDLER I've found that there are only two kinds that are any good: slang that has established itself in the...
RAYMOND CHANDLER The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endle...
RAYMOND CHANDLER The motion picture is like a picture of a lady in a half-piece bathing suit. If she wore a few more ...
RAYMOND CHANDLER The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called signi...
RAYMOND CHANDLER I said something which gave you to think I hated cats. But gad, sir, I am one of the most fanatical ...
RAYMOND CHANDLER Your rat tail is all the fashion now. I prefer a bushy plume, carried straight up. You are Siamese a...
RAYMOND CHANDLER He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
RAYMOND CHANDLER Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After t...
RAYMOND CHANDLER It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent a...
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