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«The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.»
Author: Carson McCullers
(Writer)
| About:
Mind
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colors, convolution, convolutions, design, distill, distilled, distilling, distills, drawn, richly, tapestry, the senses, woven
«I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn't pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn how to appear, philosophers to find out what to think and novelists to see what I could get away with. And, in the end, I distilled everything down to one wonderfully simple principle: win or die.»
Author: Christopher Hampton
| Keywords:
consulted, deceit, distilled, get away, moralist, moralists, Novelists, philosophers, pleasure principle, strictest, virtuosi, virtuoso, wonderfully
«A play is fiction-and fiction is fact distilled into truth.»
Author: Edward Albee
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«I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.»
Author: Florence Nightingale
(Humanitarian, Nurse)
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distill, distilled, distilling, distills
«Poetry is life distilled.»
«Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.»
«Glass of brandy and water! That is the current but not the appropriate name: ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation»
Author: Robert Hall
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appropriate, ask for, brandies, brandy, current, damnation, distill, distilled, distilling, distills, Fire and Water, liquid, liquids, The Current
«There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.»
Author: Ovid
(Author, Poet)
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alcohol, briefest, distill, distilled, distilling, distills, nap, napping, Naps, refreshment, refreshments, stimulation
«Histories are a kind of distilled newspapers»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
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distill, distilled, distilling, distills, Histories, newspapers
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