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Letter "P" » peel off
«The surface of Venice is constantly metamorphosing [and] painting Venice is almost like being a restorer, peeling off the layers to find the picture after picture underneath.»
Author: Arbit Blatas
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layers, metamorphoses, peeled, peeling, peels, peel of, peel off, restorer, surface of, underneath, Venice
«Life is like an onion: you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep»
«Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it»
«The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will quickly cover the gash; but when the tree is very old, peeling the bark off, and looking carefully, you will see the scar there still. All that is buried is not dead.»
Author: Olive Schreiner
(Writer)
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bark, dead tree, gash, peeling, peel off, scar, The Scar, The Troubles
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