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Letter "O" » oblivion
«Events are the ephemera of history; they pass across its stage like fireflies, hardly glimpsed before they settle back into darkness and as often as not into oblivion. Every event, however brief, has to be sure a contribution to make, lights up some dark corner or even some wide vista of history. Nor it it only political history which benefits most, for every historical landscape--political, economic, social, even geographical--is illumined by the intermittent flare of the event.»
Author: Fernand Braudel
| Keywords:
benefits, contribution, ephemera, fireflies, firefly, flare, flares, flare up, geographical, glimpsed, historical, illumine, illumined, illumines, intermittent, landscape, oblivion, pass across, Political history, settle, social event, to be sure, vista, vistas
«Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.»
«But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?»
«An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.»
«Blue oblivion, largely lit, smiled and smiled at me.»
«(Doublethink) to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
doublethink, draw, draw back, inconvenient, just so, needed, oblivion
«All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.»
Author: Logan Pearsall Smith
(Writer)
| Keywords:
loaded down, loads, oblivion, pouring, vacancies, vacancy, van
«A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.»
Author: Umberto Eco
(Critic, Novelist)
| Keywords:
Books not, clumsy, devotes, elements, fragile, librarian, librarians, oblivion, protects, the books, The Elements, The Librarian
«Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy. And before Buddha or Jesus spoke the nightingale sang, and long after the words of Jesus and Buddha are gone into oblivion the ni»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
brute, brute force, Buddha, crushes, daisy, nightingale, nightingales, oblivion, plants, pyramid, Pyramids, sang, spoke, The Pyramids
«Every Harvard class should have one Democrat to rescue it from oblivion»
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