„I found the king extremely attractive, naturally endowed as he was with all the intellectual qualities a woman could wish for in the man close to her heart. His gentle, serious look, which could still be indulgent and warm, and his lovely smile touched me deeply. And there were other details I liked: the way he held his head, his long eyelashes, which I found unutterably romantic, his hands. Yes, I was secretly won over, charmed by him.“

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— Farah Diba

Page 76
Publications, An Enduring Love: My Life with the Shah (2004)

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— Emily Brontë English novelist and poet 1818 - 1848

„She had fallen asleep with her head on her lover's knees. He looked at her and smiled. An expression of pity and benevolence flitted across his face. His hands stretched out part way toward the sleeping woman with the gentleness of strength. I saw the glorious pride of condescension and charity in this man whom a woman prostrate before him deified.“

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— Henri Barbusse French novelist 1873 - 1935

The Inferno (1917), Ch. XVI

„“He’s a fair man.”
I looked at him, startled.
“I said fair,” he repeated. “Not likable.”
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— Octavia E. Butler, buch Kindred

Quelle: Kindred (1979), Chapter 4, “The Fight” section 6 (p. 134).

„He took her into his arms again, using all his strength to be gentle, and let his lips touch hers so lightly he could hardly feel it.“

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— Morgan Llywelyn, buch Lion of Ireland

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„He was not satisfied with the way things stood now; he was a man who had come in sight of a goal, then had won it, and in winning it had seen just within his grasp another goal, higher, greater. He had learned to shout and had shouted and no ear had heard him; he had just learned to walk and was walking but could not see the ground beneath his feel; he had long been yearning for weapons to hold in his hands and suddenly found that his hands held weapons that were invisible.“

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— Richard Wright African-American writer 1908 - 1960

"Flight", pp.125, Harper Row 1966
Native Son (1940)

„As for King Hussein of Jordan, I cannot praise him enough. He is not only a friend, but a brother. His qualities as a man and his goodness of heart are enhanced by great courage and a true love of his country.“

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— Mohammad Reza Pahlavi Shah of Iran 1919 - 1980

Page 146
Publications, The Shah's Story (1980), On world leaders and statesmen

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— David Dixon Porter United States Navy admiral 1813 - 1891

Quelle: 1880s, Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War (1885), p. 299

„He put his hands on the young woman's shoulders, and looked at her, in readiness for his eager embrace.
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The Inferno (1917), Ch. XV

„He touched her face, gently, with the back of his hand. 'you disappear so completely into your head sometimes.' he said. 'i wish i could follow you.'
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— Cassandra Clare, buch City of Ashes

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„It is me. I am his madness. For years he's been looking for something to put his madness into. And he found me.“

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— John Fowles, buch The Collector

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„When I look into his eyes, I could see without a doubt that he loved me more than anyone else in the world, that I was his salvation, the same way that he was mine.“

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— Richelle Mead, Shadow Kiss

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„I have never known any man who could do such ample justice to his best thoughts in colloquial discussion. His perfect command over his great mental resources, the terseness and expressiveness of his language and the moral earnestness as well as intellectual force of his delivery, made him one of the most striking of all argumentative conversers: and he was full of anecdote, a hearty laugher, and, when with people whom he liked, a most lively and amusing companion. It was not solely, or even chiefly, in diffusing his merely intellectual convictions that his power showed itself: it was still more through the influence of a quality, of which I have only since learnt to appreciate the extreme rarity: that exalted public spirit, and regard above all things to the good of the whole, which warmed into life and activity every germ of similar virtue that existed in the minds he came in contact with: the desire he made them feel for his approbation, the shame at his disapproval; the moral support which his conversation and his very existence gave to those who were aiming to the same objects, and the encouragement he afforded to the fainthearted or desponding among them, by the firm confidence which (though the reverse of sanguine as to the results to be expected in any one particular case) he always felt in the power of reason, the general progress of improvement, and the good which individuals could do by judicious effort.“

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— John Stuart Mill, buch Autobiography

Quelle: https://archive.org/details/autobiography01mill/page/101/mode/1up pp. 101-102

„Man wishes to be confirmed in his being by man, and wishes to have a presence in the being of the other….
Secretly and bashfully he watches for a YES which allows him to be and which can come to him only from one human person to another.“

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— Martin Buber, buch Ich und Du

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„He found him a tall figure, with a slightly flabby body, shining hair and well-trimmed beard. He appeared impressive, well-dressed and his eyes were exceptionally eloquent that drew everyone’s attention. There was deep note of mystery about his eyes…His style of conversation was always accompanied by his smile and too attractive which cast a spell on his addresses…He had a remarkable ability to assess others and immediately found out their mental level and their taste. Likewise, he had an enviable understanding of the context and situation in which he found himself placed.“

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— Zakir Hussain (politician) 3rd President of India 1897 - 1969

Dr. Mujeeb, his friend during their stay in Germany in 1922, p. 75.
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— Melina Marchetta, buch On the Jellicoe Road

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„Amazing how he could make her feel. Safe in a vacant lot, warm in the middle of the night. Just being this close to him, being able to touch his thoughts and feel his presence, was comforting-and dizzying.“

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— L.J. Smith American author 1965

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„Never have I met another man of such singleness of mind in his devotion to nature as Muir. He lived and moved and had his being as a devotee. … Of himself he took little heed, but no zealous missionary ever went abroad to spread the gospel with his fervor in communicating a love of nature. And with him a love of nature meant an understanding of her laws. He sauntered over the mountains, claiming kinship with the rocks and growing things and gathering them all to his heart. He has told me that he found it necessary, in getting people to listen, to tell them stories such as his immortal tale of Stickeen, but the real hope in his heart was to awaken their interest so they would want to go to nature themselves and to delve into the mysteries of her ways. … Every tree and flower, every bird and stone was to him the outward token of an invisible world in process of making.“

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Charles Keeler (pages 17-18)
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„And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again (yes),
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I put my arms around him (yes),
And drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts,
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"Yes", from Naked; inspired by Molly Bloom's soliloquy in James Joyce's Ulysses (2002). Live performance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htbsGpcc0Fw

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Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)

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Quelle: The Meaning of God in Human Experience (1912), Ch. XVI : The Original Sources of the Knowledge of God, p. 237.

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