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«When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed for me into love.»
«-She turned me into a newt! -A newt?-I got better...»
Author: Monty Python | Keywords: newt, newts, turned
«She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain»
«When I turned two I was really anxious, because I'd doubled my age in a year. I thought, if this keeps up, by the time I'm six I'll be ninety.»
«Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness; / To the end that my glory may sing praise to thee, and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever.»
«The moon's turned black; For I love him, and He didn't love back»
«What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say, 'This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!' Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse that demon? Or would you answer, 'Never have I heard anything more divine'?»
«This life as you live it now and have lived it, you will have to live again and again, times without number, and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and all the unspeakably small and great in your life must return to you and everything in the same series and sequence -- and in the same way this spider and this moonlight among the trees, and this same way this moment and I myself. The eternal hour glass of existence will be turned again and again -- and you with it, you dust of dust!»
«The land that had nourished him and had borne him fruit now turned against him and called him a fruit. Man, I hate land like that.»
«When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new.»

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