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Letter "P" » proportion
«The beauty of flames lies in their strange play, beyond all proportion and harmony. Their diaphanous flare symbolizes at once grace and tragedy, innocence and despair, sadness and voluptuousness. The burning transcendence has something of the lightness of great purifications. I wish the fiery transcendence would carry me up and throw me into a sea of flames, where, consumed by their delicate and insidious tongues, I would die an ecstatic death. The beauty of flames creates the illusion of a pure, sublime death similar to the light of dawn. Immaterial, death in flames is like a burning of light, graceful wings. Do only butterflies die in flames? What about those devoured by the flames within them?»
Author: Emile M. Cioran
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«The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population the intelligent ones or the fool»
Author: Henrik Ibsen
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biggest, Big Lie, majority, make up, population, populations, proportion, rebelling, The Fool
«The pain we feel When someone leaves our life is in direct proportion to the joy they bring while a part of our life for a few moments. In my life you made me feel as if I truly meant something to someone»
«The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears»
«There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
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Beauty
| Keywords:
excellent, proportion, proportioned, strangeness
«Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.»
«Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.»
Author: William Blake
(Engraver, Mystic, Painter, Poet)
| Keywords:
destroyed, fetter, fettered, fetters, flourish, flourished, human race, in fetters, nations, painting, poetry, proportion, race
«Proportion your expenses to what you have, not what you expect.»
«The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity»
Author: Marcel Proust
(Author, Novelist)
| Keywords:
absurdity, direct, Direct proportion, fixity, proportion
«The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
ambitions, capacities, Happy ending, possessions, proportion, The Happy Ending, virtuous
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