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«There is something about music that keeps its distance even at the moment that it engulfs us. It is at the same time outside and away from us and inside and part of us. In one sense it dwarfs us, and in another we master it. We are led on and on, and yet in some strange way we never lose control.»
«A mind that questions everything, unless strong enough to bear the weight of its ignorance, risks questioning itself and being engulfed in doubt. If it cannot discover the claims to existence of the objects of its questioning -- and it would be miraculous if it so soon succeeded in solving so many mysteries -- it will deny them all reality, the mere formulation of the problem already implying an inclination to negative solutions. But in so doing it will become void of all positive content and, finding nothing which offers it resistance, will launch itself perforce into the emptiness of inner revere.»
Author: Emile Durkheim
(Sociologist)
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«I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems it will engulf everything. Wait a moment, another current will appear and bring the first one to naught.»
«The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
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cling, cling to, engulf, engulfed, engulfs, fails, goes out, lovers, rises, The Sea, to each other
«People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them.»
«Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than the power that crosses the white sea, driven by the stormy wind, making a path under surges that threaten to engulf him...»
«When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in the eternity before and after, the little space I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of space of which I am ignorant, and which knows me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there, why now rather than then?»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Life
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astonished, Before and After, duration, engulf, engulfed, engulfs, frightened, immensity, swallowed
«Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
emerges, engulf, engulfed, engulfs, infinity, nothingness
«The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break forth from one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
engulf, engulfed, engulfs, goes out, The Sea
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