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«Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.»
«Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.»
Author: Jonathan Raban
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aspiration, continual, demography, describe, locate, located, locates, locating, monograph, myth, nightmare, sociology, The Hard, urban
«I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.»
Author: Kyle Schmidt
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As You, describe, deserve, feel, perfectly, said, say, There Is Nothing
«I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.»
«I can't describe to you how surprised I was to find out I loved her, old sport. I even hoped for a while that she'd throw me over, but she didn't, because she was in love with me too. She thought I knew a lot beacause I knew different things from her....Well, there I was, way off my ambitions, getting deeper in love every minute, and all of a sudden I didn't care. What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do? Gatsby»
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
(Writer)
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all of a sudden, ambitions, describe, for a while, hoped-for, hoped, of a sudden, sport, sudden, throw off
«Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth»
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
(Writer)
| About:
Work,
World
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absolute, absolute truth, confuse, describe, Point of, point of view, representation, representations, The Absolute, world view
«Reconciliation is to understand both sides; to go to one side and describe the suffering being endured by the other side, and then go to the other side and describe the suffering being endured by the first side.»
Author: Thich Nhat Hanh
(Activist, Monk, Writer)
| Keywords:
describe, endured, one-sided, Other side, reconciliation, sides, The other side, The Suffering
«O Krishna, the stillness of divine union which you describe is beyond my comprehension. How can the mind, which is so restless, attain lasting peace? Krishna, the mind is restless, turbulent, powerful, violent; trying to control it is like trying to tame the wind.»
Author: Bhagavad Gita
| Keywords:
beyond control, comprehension, control it, describe, Krishna, restless, stillness, tame, tamer, turbulent
«Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| About:
Literature,
Reality
| Keywords:
adds, competencies, competency, daily, describe, deserting, deserts, enriches, enriching, irrigate, irrigates, literature, provides, requires, Through the Desert
«I compare human life to a large mansion of many apartments, two of which I can only describe, the doors of the rest being as yet shut upon me»
Author: John Keats
(Poet)
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apartments, as yet, compare, describe, mansion, The Apartment, The Apartments, The Doors
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