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Letter "A" » abandoned
«At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned»
«Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.»
Author: Goya
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Imagination
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abandoned, arts, Arts and, fantasy, marveling, marvels, monsters, origin, produces, The Mother, the Origin
«Art is never finished, only abandoned.»
«A poem is never finished, only abandoned.»
«A highly learned man has two sources of happiness: Either he abandons all earthly interests or else he possesses much which could be abandoned.»
«Afflictive emotions - our jealousy, anger, hatred, fear - can be put to an end. When you realize that these emotions are only temporary, that they always pass on like clouds in the sky, you also realize they can ultimately be abandoned.»
Author: Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama
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abandoned, afflictive, clouds, pass on, temporary, ultimately
«As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.»
Author: Daniel J. Boorstin
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abandoned
«Forget all rules, forget all restrictions, as to taste, as to what ought to be said, write for the pleasure of it -- whether slowly or fast -- every form of resistance to a complete release should be abandoned.»
Author: William Carlos Williams
(Poet)
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abandoned, abandons, fast, release, resistance, restriction, restrictions, rules, slowly, taste, The Pleasure
«Having abandoned attachment to the fruits of work, ever content, and dependent on no one [but God]; though engaged in activity, one does nothing at all.»
«DELUSION, n. The father of a most respectable family, comprising Enthusiasm, Affection, Self-denial, Faith, Hope, Charity and many other goodly sons and daughters.All hail, Delusion! Were it not for thee The world turned topsy-turvy we should see; For Vice, respectable with cleanly fancies, Would fly abandoned Virtue's gross advances. --Mumfrey Mappel»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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abandoned, Advances, cleanly, comprise, comprises, comprising, daughters, delusion, denial, fancies, Father of, goodly, gross, hail, respectable, self-denial, Sons and Daughters, topsy-turvy, Topsy
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