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«With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that [the books] have a life of their own, quite apart from me.»
Author: Madeleine L'Engle
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Books
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apart, convinced, more and more, of their own, the books
«True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself; hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
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Debauchery
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creates, debaucheries, debauchery, favorite, favorites, hence, liberating, lovers, obligations, of their own, pastime, pastimes, possess, remains
«When human beings have been fascinated by the contemplation of their own hearts, the more intricate biological pattern of the female has become a model for the artist, the mystic, and the saint. When mankind turns instead to what can be done, altered, built, invented, in the outer world, all natural properties of men, animals, or metals become handicaps to be altered rather than clues to be followed.»
Author: Margaret Mead
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altered, Animal World, biological, clues, clue in, contemplation, fascinated, female, followed, handicaps, intricate, invented, metals, model, mystic, mystics, natural world, of their own, outer, pattern, properties, saint, The Saint
«Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
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admiration, glorious, idols, of their own, paradise, scorn, slaves, The Idols, vaunt, vaunted, vaunts
«Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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All Saints, churches, discredit, discredited, discrediting, discredits, geniuses, hostile, monasteries, monastery, of course, of their own, persecute, persecutes, persecuting, routine, routines, saints, seeing, universities, using, youthful
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