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«Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons»
«The power of a text is different when it is read from when it is copied out. Only the copied text thus commands the soul of him who is occupied with it, whereas the mere reader never discovers the new aspects of his inner self that are opened by the text, that road cut through the interior jungle forever closing behind it: because the reader follows the movement of his mind in the free flight of day-dreaming, whereas the copier submits it to command.»
Author: Walter Benjamin
(Essayist, Theologian, Writer)
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aspects, closing, commands, copied, copier, cut through, Forever Free, Interior, jungle, occupied, submits, text
«So they, who climb to wealth, forgetThe friends in darker fortunes tried.I copied them -- but I regretThat I should ape the ways of pride.»
«I live in my own place - have never copied nobody even half, and at any master who lacks the grace - to laugh at himself - I laugh»
«Those who work in a preconceived style, deliberately turning their backs on nature, miss the truth. An artist must recognize, when he is reasoning, that his picture is an artifice; but when he is painting, he should feel that he has copied nature. An»
Author: Henri Matisse
(Artist, Painter)
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Painting
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artifice, artifices, backs, copied, deliberately, preconceived, work in
«Calvin founded a little theocracy, modeled after the Old Testament, and succeeded in erecting the most detestable government that ever existed, except the one from which it was copied»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
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Religion
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Calvin, copied, detestable, erecting, existed, modeled, Old Testament, succeeded, testament, theocracy
«Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and, therefore, few only can judge how nearly they are copied.»
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