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Quotes About Delicacy

She was made entirely of a sweetness bordering on tears.
~ Clarice Lispector
things are very delicate. People tread upon them with too many human feet, with too many sentiments. Only the delicacy of innocence or only the delicacy of the initiate senses its almost nonexistent taste. Before, I needed seasoning for everything, and in that way I skipped over the thing and tasted the taste of the seasoning.
~ Clarice Lispector
he thinks that flowers are hauntingly delicate like a sigh of nobody in the dark.
~ Clarice Lispector
Só uma pessoa muito delicada pode entrar no quarto vazio onde há um espelho vazio, e com tal leveza, com tal ausência de si mesma, que a imagem não marca. Como prêmio, essa pessoa delicada terá então penetrado num dos segredos invioláveis das coisas: Vi o espelho propriamente dito.
~ Clarice Lispector
Y a veces la gente demasiado sensible camina por una cornisa muy fina entre la realidad y sus pensamientos.
~ Unknown
Any pipsqueak can roar like a lion on paper, because grand words cost little, whereas delicacy—the delicacy of Chopin for example, persevering to the extreme, tense, elaborate—requires effort and character. —WITOLD GOMBROWICZ,
~ Clive James
And your man?' He hesitates. 'Long dead too?' It is the most delicate way that can be contrived, to ask a man if he has killed someone.
~ Hilary Mantel
Every plan is a house of cards.
~ Holly Black
now normal felt fragile, as though she could unravel it all just by teasing out a single string.
~ Holly Black
Her skin is the bluish color of skim milk
~ Holly Black
Lo que pasa es que a veces forzamos demasiado nuestros juguetes y se acaban rompiendo.
~ Holly Black
Words like winter snowflakes.
~ Homer
Having various types of fish in Kolkata is a must have and I am enjoying that every day for lunch and dinner.
~ Kumar Sanu
I'm a foodie, and since I am a vegetarian, I am going to try Lucknow ki chaat. I have heard a lot about it.
~ Tulsi Kumar
Who could believe that in such overwhelming beauty exists such fragility?
~ Jess Walter
Huitlacoche is typically eaten as a filling for quesadillas or with any tortilla-based food. Also great stuffed in crepes.
~ Marcela Valladolid
For me, there is no better tapa than a really good stuffed olive.
~ Jose Andres
The best public poems aren't necessarily those that go at the subject like a bull at a gate.
~ Andrew Motion
What I do is try to stay away from the hot subjects.
~ Jerry Bruckheimer
I was the most subtle person in the world.
~ Quincy Jones
By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
~ Virginia Woolf
Five tender apricots in a blue bowl, a brief and exact promise of things to come.
~ Unknown
Beauty is a frail good.
~ Ovid