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Letter "F" » fairy
«Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers»
Author: Hans Christian Andersen
(Author)
| About:
God
| Keywords:
fairy, fairy tale, fingers, tale, written
«Do not ask questions of fairy tales»
«Fairy Tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.»
«Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies,' there's a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.»
«A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.»
Author: Marie Curie
(Physicist)
| About:
Scientists
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confronting, fairy, fairy tales, impress, laboratories, laboratory, natural phenomenon, phenomena, scientist, tales, technician, technicians
«Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes, and incomprehensibly to himself, all his progress should enter so swiftly into the work that he is unable to recognize them in the moment of transition. Alas, the artist who waits in ambush there, watching, detaining them, will find them transformed like the beautiful gold in the fairy tale which cannot remain gold because some small detail was not taken care of.»
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
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alas, ambush, ambushes, detail, detain, detained, detour, detours, fairy, ideally, insights, In The Moment, painter, processes, reflective, swiftly, tale, The Detours, transformed, transition, transitions, unable, waits, work in progress
«Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.»
«Any man can lose his hat in a fairy-wind»
«Child of the pure, unclouded brow And dreaming eyes of wonder! Though time be fleet and I and thou Are half a life asunder, Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy tale»
Author: Lewis Carroll
(Logician, Mathematician, Novelist, Photographer)
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asunder, brow, brows, dreaming, fairy, fairy tale, fleet, fleetest, fleets, hail, hailed, hailing, hails, Half a Life, half time, surely, tale, The Brow, The Fleet, unclouded
«God defend me from that Welsh fairy,Lest he transform me to a piece of cheese!»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
cheese, fairy, lest, transform, Welsh
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