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«Everyone knows that time is Death, that Death hides in clocks. Imposing another time powered by the Clock of the Imagination, however, can refuse his law. Here, freed of the Grim Reaper's scythe, we learn that pain is knowledge and all knowledge pain.»
Author: Federico Fellini
(Film Director)
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Death
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clock, freed, grim, grim reaper, hides, his law, imposing, powered, reaper, reapers, scythe, The Grim Reaper
«Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.»
«False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and reveals itself only enough to create an illusion and not be recognized as the meanness that it really is. True greatness is free, kind, familiar and popular; it lets itself be touched and handled, it loses nothing by being seen at close quarters; the better one knows it, the more one admires it.»
Author: Jean de la Bruyere
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admires, avert, averted, averting, averts, false face, frailties, frailty, handled, hides, meanness, quarters, recognized, remote, touched, unsociable
«Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate»
«Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state»
Author: Alexander Pope
(Poet)
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all but, Book of, hides, page, prescribed, prescribes, the book
«I am well aware that an addiction to silk underwear does not necessarily imply that one's feet are dirty. None the less, style, like sheer silk, too often hides eczema.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
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addiction, eczema, hides, imply, sheer, silk, underwear, well aware
«He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon.»
«If the doctor cures, the sun sees it; but if he kills, the earth hides it»
«How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!»
«Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
hides, protract, protracted, protracting, protracts, shuns
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