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Letter "M" » mortal
«Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.»
«A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal»
Author: Jean Giraudoux
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Immortality
| Keywords:
immortal, mortal, mortal man, Mortal Men
«If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.»
Author: Joseph Goebbels
| About:
Politics,
Propaganda,
Psychology
| Keywords:
and or, Big Lie, big time, consequences, dissent, dissenting, dissents, economic, economic power, Enemy of the state, eventually, extension, extensions, maintained, military, military power, mortal, mortal enemy, political, political power, powers, repeating, repress, repressing, shield, shielded, shielding, state, The State, thus, vitally
«But 'twas beyond a mortal's share / To wander solitary there: / Two paradises 'twere in one, / To live in paradise alone.»
Author: Andrew Marvell
(Poet, Politician, Satirist)
| Keywords:
mortal, paradise, paradises, solitary, wander
«But mortal bliss will never come sincere; Pleasure may lead, but grief blow brings up the rear»
«. . . he would have passed a pleasant life of it, in despite of the Devil and all his works, if his path had not been crossed by a being that causes more perplexity to mortal man than ghosts, goblins, and the whole race of witches put together, and that was--a woman.»
Author: Washington Irving
(Writer)
| Keywords:
crossed, despite, ghosts, goblin, goblins, mortal, mortal man, Mortal Men, passed, perplexities, perplexity, pleasant, put together, The Witches, witches, witching
«But in my arms till break of dayLet the living creature lie,Mortal, guilty, but to meThe entirely beautiful.»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
| Keywords:
arms, break of day, creature, entirely, guilty, mortal
«As from a large heap of flowers many garlands and wreaths are made, so by a mortal in this life there is much good work to be done.»
«Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.»
«Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.»
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