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«We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence»
Author: Joseph Roux
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Father, His father, holds, immense, impotence, losing, orphan, orphaned, unhappiness, widower, widowers
«The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.»
Author: Jules Verne
(Author)
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covers, desert, globe, immense, seven seas, sides, stirring, tenths, terrestrial
«The journey is difficult, immense. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know.»
«The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden. Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; law, social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its monstrous flowers and its hideous instruments of eternal human suffering.»
Author: Octave Mirbeau
| Keywords:
heroism, hideous, immense, inexorable, instruments, instrument of torture, monstrous, social justice
«The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof»
Author: Mary McCarthy
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America and Americans,
Movies
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abroad, demonstrates, immense, movies, popularity, unfinished
«The great British Library --an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most of which are seldom read: one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or ''pure English, undefiled'' wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought.»
Author: Washington Irving
(Writer)
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all ages, British, buckets, classic, collection, immense, languages, Modern Age, Modern English, obsolete, pools, repair, rill, scantiest, scanty, sequester, sequestered, swell, their own language, The Modern Age, undefiled, volumes, wherewith
«We must begin by acknowledging that there is a complete absence of two things in Indian Society. One of these is equality. On the social plane we have an India based on the principles of graded inequality, which means elevation for some and degradation for others. On the economic plane we have a society in which there are some who have immense wealth as against many who live in abject poverty.»
«The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.»
«We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.»
«Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.»
Author: William Blake
(Engraver, Mystic, Painter, Poet)
| Keywords:
compass, compasses, compassing, error, immense
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