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«The best thing I have is the knife from Fatal Attraction. I hung it in my kitchen. It's my way of saying, Don't mess with me.»
«The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.»
Author: Italo Calvino
(Essayist, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
attraction, confines, dictionary, escape from, stirs, stretches, The Call, utmost
«Wherever applause breaks out in the liturgy because of some human achievement, it is a sure sign that the essence of liturgy has totally disappeared and been replaced by a kind of religious entertainment. Such attraction fades quickly - it cannot compete in the market of leisure pursuits, incorporating as it increasingly does various forms of religious titillation.»
Author: Pope Benedict XVI
(Pope)
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applause, attraction, compete, disappeared, fades, incorporate, incorporated, incorporates, incorporating, increasingly, liturgy, pursuits, replaced, the market, titillation
«We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect.»
Author: Sissela Bok
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attraction, breathing, breathing space, confers, earliest, early childhood, experts, imposes, in a sense, secrecy
«When a man dwells on the objects of sense, he creates an attraction for them; attraction develops into desire, and desire breeds anger.»
«The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the perpetual cause of life.»
Author: Albert Pike
(Journalist, Lawyer, Soldier)
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antipathies, antipathy, attraction, fixedness, radiation, The Double
«The senses have been conditioned by attraction to the pleasant and aversion to the unpleasant: a man should not be ruled by them; they are obstacles in his path.»
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