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«If you go over desert and mountain,Far into the country of Sorrow,To-day and to-night and to-morrow,And maybe for months and for years;You shall come with a heart that is burstingFor trouble and toiling and thirsting,You shall certainly come to the fountainAt length, -- to the Fountain of Tears.»
Author: Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy
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at length, bursting, come with, fountain, go over, morrow, The Fountain, thirsting, toiling
«Why not say it? I'm bursting out of my cocoon. It was all too nice in the past - it never knocked anyone out. But last year... my first opening night at the Met - I looked out and heard all that cheering... for me... And I loved it.»
Author: Benita Valente
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all too, bursting, cocoon, cocoons, knocked, opening night, The Met
«I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.»
«He sees it in the juvenile street gangs, who live in fear of death and who propagate fear by inflicting death to banish fear. And he sees it at its worst, as the result of violent emotions bursting into the mind and erupting from the hands.»
Author: Ed McBain
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banish, bursting, erupt, erupting, erupts, gangs, gang up, inflicting, juvenile, juveniles, propagate, propagated, propagates, propagating, violent death
«Sex can no longer be the germ, the seed of fiction. Sex is an episode, most properly conveyed in an episodic manner, quickly, often ironically. It is a bursting forth of only one of the cells in the body of the omnipotent ''I',' the one who hopes by concentration of tone and voice to utter the sound of reality.»
Author: Elizabeth Hardwick
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an episode, bursting, burst forth, episode, episodes, episodic, germ, ironically, The Germ, tone of voice
«Which would you rather have, a bursting planet or an earthquake here and there?»
«Pride is the deadliest of sins, but I was bursting with pride»
«There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than ''politicians'' think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas... that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think.»
Author: Michel Foucault
(Historian, Philosopher, Scholar)
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against the rules, bursting, carried, expressing, intellectuals, In books, manifesting, once and for all, passionate, passively, resistant, ruled, rule book, rule the world, struggles
«The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes»
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