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«Where life is colorful and varied, religion can be austere or unimportant. Where life is appallingly monotonous, religion must be emotional, dramatic and intense. Without the curry, boiled rice can be very dull.»
Author: C. Northcote Parkinson
(Writer)
| About:
Life,
Religion
| Keywords:
appallingly, austere, boiled, boil over, colorful, curried, curries, curry, dramatic, dull, emotional, intense, monotonous, rice, unimportant, varied
«This severe, ascetic music, calm and horizontal as the line of the ocean, monotonous by virtue of its serenity, anti-sensuous, and yet so intense in its contemplativeness that it verges sometimes on ecstasy»
Author: Charles Gounod
| Keywords:
anti, ascetic, ascetics, calm, contemplativeness, ecstasy, horizontal, intense, monotonous, ocean, sensuous, serenity, severe, verges
«The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes.»
Author: Arthur Miller
(Playwright)
| About:
Feelings
| Keywords:
an episode, at any cost, condensation, episode, episodes, intense, realistic, real person, series, sustain
«When I have found intense pain relieved, a weary brain soothed,and calm refreshing sleep obtained by a cigar, I have felt grateful to God, and have blessed His name»
«What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?»
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
| Keywords:
ascending, expanding, graduating, gyre, gyres, intense, large scale, pushes, scale, significance, spiral, spiraling, spirals
«Verse, Fame and Beauty are intense indeed, But Death intenser - Death is Life's high meed»
«What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire.»
Author: Ovid
(Author, Poet)
| About:
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
allowed, denied, disagreeable, intense
«We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment from a contrast and very little from a state of things.»
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