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True sorrow is as rare as true love. — Stephen King

It's like watching some rare exotic butterfly. Pleasant to watch, but you can't touch it, for as soon as you do, it dies, it's brilliance gone. — Haruki Murakami

Attain and maintain a reputation, for it is the usufruct of fame. A stiff climb, for it is the issue of excellence, as rare as mediocrity is common. — Baltasar Gracian

A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable. — Thomas Jefferson

Even though the means of production are more available than ever, I think the true expertise is as rare as ever. — Khoi Vinh

She was spirit and presence, as rare and brilliant as snowflakes in sunlight, and he could not bring himself to harm her. — Shana Abe

I want to keep my life as unfettered as possible. So maybe I'll just pretend to get rare books from my catalogue, and not really get them. — Patti Smith

People come and people go, but it's rare that one makes enough of an impact in life, that others will read as history. — Auliq Ice

The daisy is fair, the day-lily rare, The bud o' the rose as sweet as it's bonnie. — James Hogg

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. — Jean De La Fontaine

Everyone can write a cliche. What's rare is to write them often and unashamedly enough that people quote it as if it's some deep shit. — Jimmy Lo

She says I am not fair, that I lack manners;
She calls me proud, and that she could not love me,
Were man as rare as Phoenix. — William Shakespeare

It's so rare, especially as a younger actor, to find a role where it's not just one-dimensional and it's not just a stock leading man. — Matt Bomer

Happiness is an art mastered by the very few. Genuinely happy people are as rare as Christians who believe in God. — Albert Vigoleis Thelen

Full stories are as rare as honesty. — Zadie Smith

I was speechless. Which is, as you know, very rare. — James Patterson

A fair degree of literacy of speech ... is increasingly rare in politicians and not necessarily regarded as an asset. — Rae Foley

And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days. — James Russell Lowell

Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Rebecca Goldstein is a rare find among contemporary novelists: she has intellectual muscle as well as a tender emotional reach. — Ian McEwan

As you get older, the ability to change becomes a very rare thing. You'll see. — Andersen Prunty

Common sense is as rare as genius. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

For a moment something almost as rare as the sight that they had just witnessed occurred: Loki was totally lost for words. — Joanne Harris

Anybody can get chewed out. It's the rare person who says, oh my god, you were right. As opposed to, no wait, the reason is ... We've all heard that — Randy Pausch

I agree. However, this one appears to belong to a rare species known as the barrier pigeon. — D.A. Bonds

A book? O, rare one,
Be not, as is our fangled world, a garment
Nobler than that it covers. — William Shakespeare

Men, generally going with the stream, seldom judge for themselves, and purity of taste is almost as rare as talent. — Voltaire

Common sense used to be a great trait for one to have, and hence the name, common it was plentiful. Today's it's as rare as the Dodo bird. — M.A. Bookout

I suspect that even today, with all the progress we have made in liberal thought, the quality of true tolerance is as rare as the quality of mercy. — Frank Knox

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl. — Tahar Ben Jelloun

Why can't a girl be smart without it being explained away as a rare supernatural phenomenon? — Cat Winters

Everyone should be encouraged to start his own business, not just some rare breed that self-identifies as entrepreneurs. — Jason Fried

a flesh-and-blood waiter and therefore as rare in San Francisco as a flying horse, — Christie Golden

Nothing is so rare as a collection of really intelligent short stories. — Morley, Christopher

The rare beauty of distant places made home seem as if we had been thrown out of paradise and sent to purgatory or worse. — Scott Haas

No not at all ... it is rare for shows to make it as long as Once and Again ... It was a pretty good run. — Sela Ward

And yet by heaven I think my love as rare / as any that she belie with false compare
Sonnett CXXX, ll, 13-14 — William Shakespeare

The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own. — Lytton Strachey

A person who seeks not only to listen but to understand as well is rare - a treasure. And rare treasures are priceless. — Anonymous

Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

She was one of those rare women who recognized that life is finite and saw orgasms as a wonderful distraction. — Anonymous

I can see why you're fond of Jackaby."
"Hah! He's as rare a breed as they come-that's the truth!"
Jackaby rolled his eyes. — William Ritter

Rare as rocking-horse turds, these days, feeling halfway to decent, with barely a sick twinge, and he was damned if he'd waste — Tim Winton

Mostly, I have to say as an actor, to find a character that's been rich enough for 10 seasons of shows ... that's very rare. — Jon Cryer

It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak. — Yvette Nicole Brown

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare. — Baruch Spinoza

My love is of a birth as rare
As 'tis, for object, strange and high;
It was begotten by Despair
Upon Impossibility. — Andrew Marvell

Live as you like best, and your character will take care of itself. Most things are good for you; the exceptions are very rare. — Henry James

Everything great is just as difficult to realize as it is rare to find. — Baruch Spinoza

Everybody talks, nobody listens. Good listeners are as rare as white crows. — Helen Keller

Nothing is so rare as a man who gets everything he wants in life, — Robert J. Crane

Erudition without pedantry is as a rare as wisdom itself. — George Sarton

And then I fell suddenly calm, and lay smiling at the glittering death, as a child at some rare bauble. — Edgar Allan Poe

An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting. — Agnes Repplier

As a general rule, biology tends to be conservative. It's rare that evolution 'invents' the same process several times. — Gero Miesenbock

I remember the way his eyes pinned my body against the backdrop of Paris as if I was some rare butterfly pinned to an exhibit box. — Rebecca Paula

He was staring at her as if he'd just been gifted some rare jewel. — Abbi Glines

In all the world there is nothing so remarkable as a great man, nothing so rare, nothing which so well repays study. — Theodore Parker

It's rare enough as an older generation player that you're 100% fit - there's always something niggling. — Brian O'Driscoll

I am a closet toy freak. I started chasing after some things as far as Star Wars toys - some very rare stuff. — Rick Springfield

I see so little of you these days; your presence is as rare as that of one's discarded mistress. — Charlie Chaplin

There seems to be a general impression that to be known as normal in Hollywood is akin to being labeled as rare animal in a zoo. — Irene Dunne

Well, perhaps you've caught me at a rare moment of weakness. The greatest gift is to be loved as I have been loved. As I love. — Jillian Hart

She had known the kind of love that was worth risking everything for, the kind of love that was as rare as a glimpse of heaven. — Nicholas Sparks

The universe now appeared to me as a void wherein floated rare flakes of snow, each flake a universe. — Olaf Stapledon

Pulver's skills as a post-Beat visionary are in rare form. A House of Hollow Wounds is a thrilling foray into the dark frontier of the weird. — Laird Barron

..and monogamy as rare as an earthen eclipse. — Marissa Meyer

As rare as true love actually is, true friendship is still harder to find. — Jason Lloyd

True friendship is as rare as twin lotuses on a single stalk. — Lauren Bjorkman

To have a job you can count on as an actor is so rare, whether that means belonging to a regional theater company or being on TV. — Jim Parsons

Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out. — Frederick Douglass

Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals — Will Durant

True sorrow is as rare as true love. I'm — Stephen King

Upon your shattered ruins where
This vine will flourish still, as rare,
As fresh, as fragrant as of old.
Love will not crumble. — Eleanor Farjeon

It's very rare that someone who is so good at the language of numbers, is as good at the language of life. They're two very different worlds. — Josh Lawson

The rare female scientist was depicted as masculine, coarse, ugly, careworn and industrious but making no significant contribution. — Barbara Goldsmith

One should see any opportunity to serve as a rare and precious gift ... and never waste such an opportunity. — Mata Amritanandamayi

It's rare that I come across actors who are willing to work as hard on the material as I am. — Donnie Wahlberg

There are few things in life as precious to us as our children. Rare is the woman or the man who wouldn't readily die for his or her offspring. — Debra Webb

Reading great dialogue as an actor is such a rare privilege. — Max Casella

Being born a human being is a rare event in itself, and it is wise to use this opportunity as beneficially as possible. — Dalai Lama XIV

True lovers are as rare as true rebels. — Masha Tupitsyn

True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one's life — James Baldwin

But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. [ ... ] True sorrow is as rare as true love. — Stephen King

As in many countries precious metals belong to the crown, so here more precious natural objects of rare beauty should belong to the public. — Henry David Thoreau

Books, films should be based on specific people... people which are rare and by it's own way pretty mystery as characters. — Deyth Banger

Basketball is one of those rare opportunities where you can make a difference, not only for yourself, but for other people as well. — Bill Walton

Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare. — Baruch Spinoza

It was gratifying, to hear that rare laugh. He felt as though he'd earned it. — Helene Wecker

A rare bird on this earth, like nothing so much as a black swan. — Juvenal

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one. — Thomas Carlyle

Nothing in the world is so rare as a person one can always put up with. — Giacomo Leopardi

True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good
and we all know how rare that is ... — Jasper Fforde

And not just because meat-eating dinosaurs used as war-mounts were as rare as honest priests. — Victor Milan

A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter. — Jean Cocteau

Good characters are rare. As long as I find one or two a year, I'm happy. — Ludivine Sagnier

Loosen up. Relax. Except for rare life-and-death matters, nothing is as important as it first seems. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Meet the bonobos, the rare and marvelous "make love not war" great apes who swing through the trees as well as with each other. — Susan Block

Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity. — Stephen Vincent Benet

It was that Michelle had the rare gift of taking people as they came. — Jennifer Coburn