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«We live at the edge of the miraculous.»
«The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.»
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
(Author, Critic, Novelist)
| Keywords:
blank, clamoring, ink, miraculous, pages
«The moment of truth, the sudden emergence of a new insight, is an act of intuition. Such intuitions give the appearance of miraculous flushes, or short-circuits of reasoning. In fact they may be likened to an immersed chain, of which only the beginning and the end are visible above the surface of consciousness. The diver vanishes at one end of the chain and comes up at the other end, guided by invisible links.»
Author: Arthur Koestler
| Keywords:
chain, circuits, diver, emergence, flush, flushed, flushes, guided, immerse, immersed, immersing, insight, intuition, intuitions, likened, links, miraculous, moment of truth, reasoning, short circuit, sudden, surface of, Truth The, vanishes
«To endow the writer publicly with a good fleshly body, to reveal that he likes dry white wine and underdone steak, is to make even more miraculous for me, and of a more divine essence, the products of his art. Far from the details of his daily life bringing nearer to me the nature of his inspiration and making it clearer, it is the whole mystical singularity of his condition which the writer emphasizes by such confidences. For I cannot but ascribe to some superhumanly the existence of beings vast enough to wear blue pajamas at the very moment when they manifest themselves as universal conscience.»
Author: Roland Barthes
(Critic)
| Keywords:
clearer, confidences, emphasizes, endow, fleshly, miraculous, pajamas, singularity, underdone, white wine
«SEINE, n. A kind of net for effecting an involuntary change of environment. For fish it is made strong and coarse, but women are more easily taken with a singularly delicate fabric weighted with small, cut stones.The devil casting a seine of lace,(With precious stones 'twas weighted) Drew it into the landing place And its contents calculated.All souls of women were in that sack -- A draft miraculous, precious! But ere he could throw it across his back They'd all escaped through the meshes. --Baruch de Loppis»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
All Souls, Baruch, coarse, contents, cut across, draft, Drew, effecting, involuntary, lace, landing place, mesh, miraculous, net, precious stones, sack, seine, singularly, taken with, weighted
«The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Wisdom
| Keywords:
common, commoner, invariable, mark, miraculous, see, wisdom
«To see the miraculous in the common»
«Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, and the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| About:
Church
| Keywords:
incomprehensible, miraculous, supernatural, supernatural being, The Church, unknowable, unreasonable, vacuum
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