
From surfeit to loss is a short line.
– Carol Shields
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- Any lack of joy in the world is the result of disobedience. – Carolyn Shields
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- A great book allows me to leap over that wall: in a deep, significant conversation with another consciousness, I feel human and unalone. – David Shields
- To write only according to the rules laid down by masterpieces signifies that one is not a master but a pupil. – David Shields
- Best fights happens in suits.because its the mouth who kills while suits becomes the shields & its not the death we fear but the life we choose. – Iraniya Naynesh
- Darkness shields as much as it threatens. – R Scott Bakker
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- A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope. – Dean Koontz
- There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like the line separating the living from the dead. – Leo Tolstoy
- I breathed and breathed and did feel some calmness enter in, though it was, as always, shot with a sense of loss. Loss and fear. – Sebastian Faulks
- Defeating the enemy through deception with little loss of life is better than fighting face-to-face with the loss of many lives on both sides. – Aleksandra Layland
- If the greatest loss of his life is the loss of a dream he’s always known to be a dream, then he’s among the fortunate ones. – Kamila Shamsie
- IQ’s are a combination of eyes, and queues. Would you wait in line to see my goat show? Of course you wouldn’t, because the line is invisible. – Will Advise
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- Loss of worldly riches is better than loss of heavenly treasures. – Matshona Dhliwayo
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- The bottom-line is, that nothing should affect your bottom-line. – Mamur Mustapha
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- I’m about to cross a line with you…a line there will be no hope of me ever returning from. And I’m terrified because the thought of you excites me. – JL Vallance
- Life is a simple straight line between birth and death. The problem is you only realize it at the end of the line. – Debasish Mridha
- There is a thin line between self-love and self-hate. When you are at the self-hate side, make sure to cross the line and stay away from it forever. – Merriam Rammila
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- She felt the loss of Willoughby’s character yet more heavily than she had felt the loss of his heart. – Jane Austen
- But, after all of the loss I’d had in my life; his loss was the one I could never bear. – Nicole Gulla
