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«The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.»
Author: Federico Garcia Lorca
(Playwright, Poet)
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anguish, at first glance, Big cities, Big City, captures, closely, extra, forgivable, furious, gaieties, gaiety, gangs, gang up, geometry, glance, machines, rhythm, The Traveler, traveler, typical
«To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely»
Author: Hugo von Hofmannsthal
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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closely, connect, distinctly
«There's an enduring American compulsion to be on the side of the angels. Expediency alone has never been an adequate American reason for doing anything. When actions are judged, they go before the bar of God, where Mom and the Flag closely flank His presence.»
Author: Jonathan Raban
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adequate, American flag, closely, compulsion, expediency, flank, flanks, mom, on the side, presence of God, The Angels, the bar
«To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it»
«Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.»
Author: Christian Nevell Bovee
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closely, egotism, excessive, morbid, self-consciousness, selves, sensibilities, sensibility, sensitiveness, The Cure
«We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.»
«Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us»
«The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter.»
«Watch me closely - only one can spoil it.»
Author: Eugene Ormandy
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closely
«Some faults are so closely allied to qualities that it is difficult to weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
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closely, eradicating, The Vice, weed, weed out
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