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The story is a testament to the consolations that get me through and give meaning to every area of my life.
Michael J. Fox
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Actor
Consolation
Giving
Stories
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To express unafraid and unashamed what one really thinks and feels is one of the great consolations of life.
Theodor Reik
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Consolation
Feels
Thinking
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Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen!
James Thurber
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Cartoonist
Blind
Consolation
Enjoyed
Last Night
Lasts
Night
Nobody
Seen
Dreamed
Small
Last
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In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.
Martin Luther
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Monk
Hope
Another Life
Consolation
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One of the large consolations for experiencing anything unpleasant is the knowledge that one can communicate it.
Joyce Carol Oates
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Author
Communication
Communicate
Consolation
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Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.
Orhan Pamuk
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Novelist
Consolation
Sole
Writing
Astounding
Course
Except
Yes
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I think art is a consolation regardless of its content. It has the power to move and make you feel like you're not.
Jeff Tweedy
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Songwriter
Consolation
Regardless
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That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.
Frank Moore Colby
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Writer
Consolation
Fun
Mankind
Mind
Progress
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What mattered to her was that she loved God, whether or not He granted her the consolation and joy of His felt presence.
Brian Kolodiejchuk
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Consolation
Granted
Joy
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The imagination is not the consolation people pretend. It can even be regarded as the admission of some sort of failure.
Edmund White
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Novelist
Imagination
Consolation
People
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The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.
Robert Hughes
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Art Critic
Confidence
Great
Artist
Consolation
Doubt
Granted
Greater
Perfect
Prize
Less
Talented
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Each and every novel is a world outside the world - for a reader to visit, for comfort, consolation, escape, or challenge.
Joshua Cohen
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Comfort
Consolation
Reader
Escape
Visit
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Even the most dismal and hopeless-sounding Wilco music, to my ears, has always maintained a level of hope and consolation.
Jeff Tweedy
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Songwriter
Consolation
Ears
Dismal
Maintained
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If thou tellest the sorrows of thy heart, let it be to him in whose countenance thou mayst be assured of prompt consolation.
Saadi
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Poet
Consolation
Heart
Sorrow
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I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.
T. C. Boyle
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Consolation
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Oh, no, I'm not brave. When a thing is certain, there's nothing to be brave about. All you can do is to find your consolation.
Agatha Christie
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Novelist
Courage
Smile
Brave
Certain
Consolation
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How could I choose someone who would force me to give up my own small reach for meaning? I chose myself, and without consolation.
Sue Monk Kidd
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Writer
Consolation
Force
Giving Up
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[N]othing is as surprising as life. Except for writing. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the only consolation.
Orhan Pamuk
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Novelist
Consolation
Surprising
Writing
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Wherever learning breeds specialists, the sum of human culture is enhanced thereby. That is the illusion and consolation of specialists.
Antonio Machado
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Poet
Consolation
Culture
Illusion
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There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.
Henry David Thoreau
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Author
Health
Consolation
May
Possibility
Sick
Recover
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It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it.
Willard Van Orman Quine
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Philosopher
Benefits
Consolation
Doe
Philosophy
Benefit
Concept
Dispense
Hinge
Showing
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Consolation of music is different from the one of words. It starts from the inside... It cries with you instead of telling you to stop crying.
Ji-Hae Park
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Consolation
Cries
Crying
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If there is any possible consolation in the tragedy of losing someone we love very much, it's the necessary hope that perhaps it was for the best.
Paulo Coelho
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Lyricist
Consolation
Losing Someone
Tragedy
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Even as a little kid I knew that spinning a dreidel on the floor for literal pennies was a sad consolation for the joys of trimming a Christmas tree.
Claire Saffitz
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Christmas Tree
Consolation
Literal
Little Kid
Pennies
Spinning
Tree
Floor
Joys
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It is the usual consolation of the envious, if they cannot maintain their superiority, to represent those by whom they are surpassed as inferior to some one else.
Plutarch
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Biographer
Consolation
Envious
Usual
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This greatest mortal consolation, which we derive from the transitoriness of all things-from the right of saying, in every conjuncture, "This, too, will pass away.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Novelist
Consolation
Endurance
Passing Away
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Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.
Claude Levi-Strauss
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Anthropologist
Absurdity
Children
Consolation
Culprit
Deny
Height
Order
Punishment
Adult
Punish
System
Treat
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In 'Growing Stronger,' I expose my most painful moments and open my heart, thoughts and person, so that my experiences can inspire alleviation, consolation and decisiveness.
Thalia
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Singer
Consolation
Decisiveness
Inspire
Stronger
Expose
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There are so many people who don't know small towns exist. When I write, I want to give my readers two things: one is a sense of consolation, and two, I want to make them laugh.
Jan Karon
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Writer
Consolation
People
Towns
Two
Writing
Exist
Small
Laugh
Readers
Small Towns
So Many People
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There is only one word of tenderness we could say, which we have not said oftentimes before ; and there is no consolation in it. The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.
Walter Savage Landor
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Writer
Consolation
Farewell
Said
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When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind's disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is in religious thought that we should seek consolation.
Gerard De Nerval
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Writer
Dream
Religion
Consolation
Disorder
Reflection
Religious
Return
Seek
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The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted.
Brendan Behan
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Poet
Bible
Cells
Consolation
Lovely
Paper
Smoke
Tasted
Cell
Fellow
Match
Stuffing
Thin
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Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.
Helen Keller
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Author
Bible
Consolation
Darkness
Equilibrium
Habit
Light
Moments
Trouble
Bright
Respond
Fully
Unless
We Cannot
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I find great consolation in having a lot of poetry books around. I believe that writing poetry and reading it are deeply intertwined. I've always delighted in the company of the poets I've read.
Edward Hirsch
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Poet
Consolation
Delighted
Intertwined
Poets
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It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Composer
Faith
Sympathy
Children
Compassion
Consolation
Died
Humble
Remember
Love Faith Great
Child-Like
Suffered
Drawn
Look
Near
Whom
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If I were John Bolton, I'd take great consolation in the words of my principal supporter on the committee, who gave a ringing endorsement, which was, There is no evidence that he has broken any laws.
Mark Shields
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Columnist
Broken
Consolation
Endorsements
Evidence
Law
Principal
Supporter
Committee
Endorsement
John
Ringing
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Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.
Richard Dawkins
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Ethologist
Religion
Science
Atheism
Changed
Consolation
Evidence
Harm
Might
Needed
Nonsense
People
September
September 11th
Beliefs
Crutch
Saw
Lack
Supporting
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The Christian experiences and lives a paradox. He possesses joy in sorrow, fulfillment in exile, light in darkness, peace in turmoil, consolation in dryness, contentment in pain and hope in desolation.
Mother Angelica
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Nun
Christian
Consolation
Darkness
Desolation
Exile
Fulfillment
Joy
Pain
Paradox
Sorrow
Turmoil
Experiences
Possesses
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Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
Edmund Burke
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Statesman
Beer
Brandy
Consolation
Country
Moral
Opium
Pressure
Tobacco
Wine
Condition
Aid
Cares
Countries
Physical
Sorrows
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Confession has been my habitual homecoming since I was a child. It is a consolation and a joy, and such joy, our faith teaches us, is meant for everyone. It is our vocation to bring it to as many people as possible.
Donald Wuerl
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Children
Confession
Consolation
Habitual
Homecoming
Joy
People
Vocation
Teaches
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What excites me is that I'm an ambassador for poetry, which is something that I wholeheartedly believe in and that has been an anchor and a force of stability and consolation throughout my life. I think that's good news.
Tracy K. Smith
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Poet
Consolation
Good News
Stability
Wholeheartedly
Ambassador
Anchor
Excites
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The only consolation is that homeopathy can only be practised on animals by a fully trained vet or under the supervision of one, because it is forbidden for the average high street homeopath to treat animals on their own.
Simon Singh
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Author
Consolation
Forbidden
Supervision
Trained
Vet
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When you're in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other things too. That's the consolation of philosophy.
David Cronenberg
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Filmmaker
Consolation
Different Perspective
Manage
Perspective
Philosophy
Above
Float
Somehow
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I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvellous Presence.
Christopher Columbus
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Explorer
Consolation
Covered
Cried
Enjoy
Found
Grace
Grace And Mercy
Lord
Made
Marvellous
Mercy
Purpose
Sweetest
Whole
Most
Since
Am
His
Noteworthy
Presence
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We have this consolation, that it was the evident dispensation of God which brought us to this country; and still further, that if the world was all before us, where to choose our place of rest, we should not desire to leave Burmah.
Adoniram Judson
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Missionary
Consolation
Desire
Evident
God World Country
Brought
Choose
Rest
Further
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There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.
Norman Douglas
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Writer
Men
Consolation
Doe
Nucleus
Refuge
Bids
Corner
Dim
Fellow
Fellow Creatures
Germ
Lyric
Ponder
Provide
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Many people see the chance to eat something for nothing, without the need to cook or wash up, as the great consolation of going out to dinner. But they forget quite how difficult it is to talk to a stranger and eat at the same time.
Craig Brown
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Consolation
Dinner
Stranger
Time Great Chance
Same Time
Wash
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I really enjoy the consolation when I'm having to cut loose stuff I love, of saying 'Well, at least it will make it onto DVD.' There's a couple of scenes which I liked very much, but couldn't fit them into the film that are on there.
Jay Roach
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Film Director
Consolation
Couple
Cutting
Dvds
Cut
Loose
Onto
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A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people's hope.
Christopher Hitchens
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Author
Consolation
Opponents
People
Symbolic
Thinking
False
Opponent
Repository
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For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.
Susan Sontag
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Writer
Death
Affront
Atheism
Consolation
Denied
Dying
Mystery
Obscene
Religious
Ultimate
Anything Else
Neither
Nor
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