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Leave everything. Leave Dada. Leave your wife. Leave your mistress. Leave your hopes and fears. Leave your children in the woods. Leave the substance for the shadow. Leave your easy life, leave what you are given for the future. Set off on the roads.
(André Breton (1896-1966), French Surrealist. "Lâchez tout!" Les Pas Perdus (1924).)
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You have to be taught to leave us alone. Leave us alone.
(Stirling Silliphant (b. 1918), U.S. screenwriter, and Wolf Rilla. David Zellaby (Martin Stephens), Village of the Damned, speaking to his uncle about himself and the other alien children (1960).)
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Naked I came, naked I leave the scene,
(James Vincent Cunningham (1911-1985), U.S. poet. Epitaph for Someone or Other (l. 1). . .
Oxford Book of American Light Verse, The. William Harmon, ed. (1979) Oxford University Press.)
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We are all dead men on leave.
(Eugene Leviné, Russian Jew, friend of Rosa Luxemburg's lover, Jogiches. quoted in Men in Dark Times, "Rosa Luxemburg: 1871-1919," sct. 3, Hannah Arendt (1968).)
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Leave your worry on the doorstep.
(Dorothy Fields (1904-1974), U.S. songwriter. "On the Sunny Side of the Street," Lew Leslie's International Revue, Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. (1930).
Music composed by Jimmy McHugh (1894-1969).)
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The children won't leave without me; I won't leave without the King; and the King will never leave.
(Elizabeth (b. 1900), British royalty, Queen Consort (1936-1952) and Queen Mother (1952- present). As quoted in Majesty, ch. 9, by Robert Lacey (1977).
The Queen said this in 1940, responding to suggestions that the two young Princesses, Elizabeth (b. 1926) and Margaret (b. 1930), be evacuated from England for their safety during the Second World War. She was the Consort of King George VI (1895- 1952).)
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Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.
(Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977), British actor, screenwriter, director. Hannah (Paulette Goddard), The Great Dictator, said to the Barber (Charles Chaplin) while musing about the state-sponsored anti-Semitism that runs rampant in the Tomanian streets (1940).)
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After Voltaire: envy is chained to the portico of the temple of glory and can neither enter nor leave.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Ninth Selection, New York (1992).)
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I meddled in things that man must leave alone.
(R.C. Sherriff (1896-1975), British screenwriter. James Whale. Jack Griffin (Claude Rains), The Invisible Man, as he lies dying (1933).
Full name Robert Cedric Sherriff.)
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If I do grow great, I'll grow less, for I'll purge and leave
sack, and live cleanly as a nobleman should do.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Falstaff, in Henry IV, Part 1, act 5, sc. 4, l. 163-5.
Imagining he may be rewarded for his claim to have killed Hotspur.)
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