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Letter "R" » recapture
«If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.»
«Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.»
Author: Charles Baudelaire
(Poet)
| About:
Genius
| Keywords:
amass, amassed, Amasses, amassing, analytical, at will, equipped, involuntarily, recapture, recaptured
«I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness.»
Author: Edna O'Brien
(Writer)
| About:
Childhood
| Keywords:
heighten, heightened, heightening, heightens, industrious, obsessive, recapture, recaptured
«Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life»
Author: Fernand Braudel
| About:
History
| Keywords:
contradictions, despite, framework, paradoxes, recapture, recaptured, relocated
«I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it.»
Author: Henri Matisse
(Artist, Painter)
| About:
Youth
| Keywords:
characteristic, freshness, new to, recapture, recaptured
«If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.»
Author: Octavio Paz
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couple, intersection, par, par excellence, point of intersection, recapture, recaptured, Return to, the couple, The Return
«That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!»
«A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment. No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«Genius is childhood recaptured.»
«Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| Keywords:
declaring, go into, hostile, hostility, militarism, racism, recapture, recaptured, revolutionary
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