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«Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.»
«Man is but a foundling in the cosmos, abandoned by the forces that created him»
«Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself on this earth.»
Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
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«Perceptive souls who have abandoned passion will not feed on flesh abandoned by life.»
«The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty.»
Author: Thomas Griffith
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Journalism,
Media
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«The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful -because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
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«The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions /an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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«She is utterly lacking in spiritual wisdom; she is abandoned by her Husband Lord. She cannot obtain His Love. In the darkness of intellectual ignorance, she cannot see her Husband, and her hunger does not depart. Come and meet with me, my sister soul-brides, and unite me with my Husband.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
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abandoned
«The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.»
«Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth, passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius, but never abandoned»
Author: William Butler Yeats
(Dramatist, Poet, Writer)
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Art
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abandoned, Age to Age, heroic, modified, religious truth, statement, traditional
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