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“my drops of tears I'll turn to sparks of fire.” William Shakespeare, “Henry VIII” - 1623

“So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!” J. R. R. Tolkien, “The Hobbit” - 1937

“Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire, burn; and caldron, bubble.” William Shakespeare, “Macbeth” - 1623

“No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Great Gatsby” - 1925

“It is an heretic that makes the fire, not she which burns in't.” William Shakespeare, “The Winter's Tale” - 1623

“There is an art in lighting a fire. We have the liberal arts and we have the useful arts. This is one of the useful arts.” James Joyce, “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” - 1916

“And where two raging fires meet together, they do consume the thing that feeds their fury.” William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew” - 1623

“To live, for me, Jane, is to stand on a crater-crust which may crack and spue fire any day.” Charlotte Brontë, “Jane Eyre” - 16 October 1847

“She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men.” Jack London, “White Fang” - 1906

“A fire eater must eat fire even if he has to kindle it himself.” Isaac Asimov, “Foundation” - 1951

“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same; and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.” Emily Brontë, “Wuthering Heights” - 1847

“Not to grieve a kind master, I learned to be less touchy; and, for the space of half a year, the gunpowder lay as harmless as sand, because no fire came near to explode it.” Emily Brontë, “Wuthering Heights” - 1847

“And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire—a fire, however, inseparable in its nature from myself, quickening nothing, lighting...” Charles Dickens, “A Tale of Two Cities” - 1859

“It wasn’t so easy, though, ending the war. A war is a huge fire; the ashes from it drift far, and settle slowly.” Margaret Atwood, “The Blind Assassin” - 2000

“what fire does not destroy, it hardens.” Oscar Wilde, “The Picture of Dorian Gray” - 1890

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