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I grasp words for the sake of clutching My mind considers them heart touchingRight then I write for my reader's pleasureNot knowing what distance a soul can measure

Munia Khan
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My hand is clutching Sebastian's, although I'm not sure he's even aware of it after all we've been through.

Theresa Braun, Dead over Heels
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Letting go of a craving is not rejecting it but allowing it to be itself: a contingent state of mind that once arisen will pass away. Instead of forcibly freeing ourselves from it, notice how its very nature is to free itself. To let it go is like releasing a snake that you have been clutching in your hand. By identifying with a craving ('I want this," don't want' that"), you tighten the clutch and intensify its resistance. Instead of being a state of mind that you have, it becomes a compulsion that has you. As with understanding anguish, the challenge in letting go of craving is to act before habitual reactions incapacitate us.

Stephen Batchelor, Buddhism without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening
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on. I’m getting cold.’ Clutching the pluckers, I call her. ‘Right,

Matt Rudd, William Walker's First Year of Marriage: A Horror Story
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Despite which, Charlie seems doomed to stumble around in the dark, clutching pieces of a puzzle he still can't see.

Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire
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The vicar's handshake was warm and reassuring, but shaking hands with Mavis was like clutching a bunch of dead twigs.

Victoria Twead, Two Old Fools in Spain Again
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History has to live with what was here,clutching and close to fumbling all we had -it is so dull and gruesome how we die,unlike writing, life never finishes.

Robert Lowell, History
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Come on," I said, taking his hand. Clutching the afghan with the other hand, he trailed down the hall after me, a snow white giant in tiny red underwear.

Charlaine Harris, Dead to the World
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So often we have a kind of vague wistful longing that the promises of Jesus should be true. The only way really to enter into them is to believe them with the clutching intensity of a drowning man.

William Barclay
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What does our great historical hunger signify, our clutching about us of countless cultures, our consuming desire for knowledge, if not the loss of myth, of a mythic home, the mythic womb?

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy
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