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«Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.»
«Poring over fragments of other people's lives, peering into their bedrooms when they don't know we're there, we thrill to the glamour and the power of secret knowledge, partly detoxified but also heightened by being shared.»
Author: Patricia Meyer Spacks
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«He would pore by the hour, o'er a weed or a flower, / Or the slugs that come crawling out after a shower.»
Author: Rev. R. H. Barham
(Dramatist, Poet)
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«Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.»
Author: William Wycherley
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«For behold, I, God, have asuffered? these things for all, that they might not suffer if they would repent; But if they would not repent they must suffer? even as I; Which suffering caused myself, even God, the greatest of all, to tremble because of pain, and to bleed at every pore, and to suffer both body and spirit?and would that I might not? drink the bitter cup, and shrink»
«He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.»
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