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Letter "N" » Necessity
«Necessity, the mother of invention»
«Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes.»
Author: Leon Edel
| About:
Necessity,
Writers
| Keywords:
biographer, biographers, literary, obsessed, of necessity, pilgrim, traveler
«Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity»
«Make yourself necessary to somebody.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Necessity,
Needs
| Keywords:
necessaries, necessary, somebody
«Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction. A double necessity then: to get on the move, and to know whither.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Necessity
| Keywords:
move in, on the move, The Move
«It was cold, and he was coughing. A fine cold draught blew over the knoll. He thought of the woman. Now he would have given all he had or ever might have to hold her warm in his arms, both of them wrapped in one blanket, and sleep. All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.»
«Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Necessity
| Keywords:
casts, elevates, petty
«Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Necessity,
Purpose,
Style
| Keywords:
Better Than Life, dressing, get a look, get dressed, good, good and, good looks, have a look, Having, is a, is not, life, looking, look out on, look up to, necessity, purpose, purposing, take a look, well, welled
«Necessity, who is the mother of invention.»
«Necessity does everything well.»
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