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«For me chemistry represented an indefinite cloud of future potentialities which enveloped my life to come in black volutes torn by fiery flashes, like those which had hidden Mount Sinai. Like Moses, from that cloud I expected my law, the principle of order in me, around me, and in the world. I would watch the buds swell in spring, the mica glint in the granite, my own hands, and I would say to myself: ''I will understand this, too, I will understand everything.''»
Author: Primo Levi
(Author, Chemist, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«Marriage is a custom brought about by women who then proceed to live off men and destroy them, completely enveloping the man in a destructive cocoon or eating him away like a poisonous fungus on a tree»
Author: Richard Harris
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Marriage
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brought about, cocoon, cocoons, envelop, enveloped, enveloping, envelops, fungi, fungus, poisonous
«What we don't let out traps us. We think, No one else feels this way, I must be crazy. So we don't say anything. And we become enveloped by a deep loneliness, not knowing where our feelings come from or what to do with them. Why do I feel this way? L»
Author: Sabrina Ward Harrison
| Keywords:
crazy, Deep Thought, envelop, enveloped, enveloping, envelops, feelings, feels, let out, let us know, loneliness, Say Anything, traps
«The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.»
Author: Charles Baudelaire
(Poet)
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atmosphere, envelop, enveloped, enveloping, envelops, marvelous, poetic, rich in, steeped, subjects
«All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever present perils of life.»
«Those yonder do I envelop in blue and red!»
«SPOOKER, n. A writer whose imagination concerns itself with supernatural phenomena, especially in the doings of spooks. One of the most illustrious spookers of our time is Mr. William D. Howells, who introduces a well-credentialed reader to as respectable and mannerly a company of spooks as one could wish to meet. To the terror that invests the chairman of a district school board, the Howells ghost adds something of the mystery enveloping a farmer from another township.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
adds, board, boarding school, board meeting, chairman, Company of, concerns, credentialed, district, districts, doings, envelop, enveloped, enveloping, envelops, farmer, ghost, Howells, illustrious, introduces, invests, mannerly, phenomena, school board, The District, township
«The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind.»
«Since Divinity is enveloped by humanness you must endeavor to overcome the Maya (delusion) that hides it from your eyes.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
enveloped, enveloping, envelops, hides, humanness
«Science must constantly be reminded that her purposes are not the only purposes and that the order of uniform causation which she has use for may be enveloped in a wider order.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
causation, enveloped, enveloping, envelops, reminded, The Order, wider
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