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«I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the word begin to move around. Stressed accents begin to invert. The word abandons its meaning like an overload which is too heavy and prevents dreaming. Then words take on other meanings as if they had the right to be young. And the words wander away, looking in the nooks and crannies of vocabulary for new company, bad company.»
Author: Gaston Bachelard
(Philosopher, Poet)
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«God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way. The way we learn those lessons is not to deny the feelings but to find the meanings underlying them.»
Author: Stanley Lindquist
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God,
Learning,
Life
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allows, allow for, any, could, deny, experience, feelings, in order, learn, lessons, low, lowing, lows, meanings, order, Orders of, out of order, pointing out, points, point after, point the way, take orders, Teach, The Way, underlie, underlies, underlying
«Hell is full of good meanings and wishings»
«I know you lawyers can, with ease, twist words and meanings as you please»
«It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless.»
«Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intellect upon the world. To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world -- in order to set up a shadow world of ''meanings.''»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| Keywords:
deplete, depleted, depleting, impoverish, impoverishing, interpret, interpretation, meanings, revenge, Revenge of, set up
«Good has two meanings: it means that which is good absolutely and that which is good for somebody.»
«All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.»
«Another Boehme with a tougher book / And subtler meanings of what roses say.»
«Charge / His mind with meanings that he never had.»
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