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Letter "N" » nightmare
«We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.»
Author: Charles Baudelaire
(Poet)
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Time
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conception, consumes, escaping, forgetting, nightmare, sensation, strengthens, weighed, weighed down
«When one creates phantoms for oneself, one puts vampires into the world, and one must nourish these children of a voluntary nightmare with one's blood, one's life, one's intelligence, and one's reason, without ever satisfying them»
Author: Eliphas Levi
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creates, nightmare, nourish, One Blood, phantoms, puts, satisfying, The Phantom, The Phantom of, vampire, vampires, voluntary
«Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.»
«You are also caught with the fact that man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage.»
«The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.»
Author: Oliver Stone
(Motion-picture director, Producer, Screenwriter)
| Keywords:
nightmare, Vietnam, woke
«The last best hope of earth, two trillion dollars in debt, is spinning out of control, and all we can do is stare at a flickering cathode-ray tube as Ollie ''answers'' questions on TV while the press, resolutely irrelevant as ever, asks politicians if they have committed adultery. From V-J Day 1945 to this has been, my fellow countrymen, a perfect nightmare.»
Author: Gore Vidal
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a trillion, cathode-ray tube, cathode, cathode ray, countrymen, flickering, irrelevant, nightmare, Out of Control, ray, resolutely, stare, trillion, trillions, tube, V-J Day
«The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
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armed, conquest, dominance, motion, nightmare, sexual, sexual love, totally
«The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she, / Who thicks man's blood with cold.»
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