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«I've grown accustomed to the trace / Of something in the air, / Accustomed to her face.»
«?You might try then, as I did, to find a sky so full of stars it will blind you again. Only no sky can blind you now. Even with all that iridescent magic up there, your eye will no longer trace constellations. You?ll care only about the darkness and you?ll watch it for hours, for days, maybe even for years, trying in vain to believe you?re some kind of indispensable universe-appointed sentinel, as if just by looking you could actually keep it all at bay. It will get so bad you?ll be afraid to look away, you?ll be afraid to sleep.?»
Author: Mark Danielewski
| About:
Darkness
| Keywords:
appointed, at bay, bay, constellation, constellations, evening star, indispensable, in vain, iridescent, keep an eye on, sentinel, sentinels, the darkness, trace
«Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place.»
Author: Paul de Man
| About:
Fashion
| Keywords:
ashes, flames, Left Behind, revealing, shaped, The Ashes, trace, uniquely
«A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace»
Author: Walter de La Mare
| About:
Dreams
| Keywords:
dreary, gloom, happy hour, infect, infected, light upon, recover, shed, shed light on, sorrowful, trace, waking
«GENEALOGY, n. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
account, ancestor, an account, descent, genealogies, genealogy, particularly, trace, tracing
«A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.»
«Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.»
«But I behold a fearful sign,To which the white men's eyes are blind;Their race may vanish hence, like mine,And leave no trace behind,Save ruins o'er the region spread,And the white stones above the dead.»
Author: William Cullen Bryant
(Writer)
| Keywords:
Behold the Man, fearful, Leave No Trace, region, ruins, trace, vanish
«Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
| About:
Art,
Motherhood,
Nature
| Keywords:
aspect, Darling, features, Mother Nature, trace
«If I could trace my origins to Judas Maccabaeus or King David, that would not add one inch to my stature. It may well be that many East European Jews are descended from Khazars, I may be one of them. Who knows? And who cares?»
Author: Isaac Asimov
(Biochemist, Writer)
| Keywords:
European, inch, judas, King David, stature, trace
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