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«The adult relation to books is one of absorbing rather than being absorbed»
Author: Anthony Burgess
(Critic, Man of letter, Novelist)
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Books
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absorbed, absorbing, relation to
«There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.»
Author: Adrienne Rich
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assumes, blood relation, channel, clogged, clogging, disturbances, falsely, local, mystical, relation to, supernatural, unrelated
« The more you observe life in relation to yourself the more you will see the fact that you are hardly ever correct when you think about something in the future. The future exists only in imagination; and that is why, no matter how hard you try to imagine it, you will not be able to predict the future with total certainty. »
«Surely there must be some way to find a husband or, for that matter, merely an escort, without sacrificing one's privacy, self-respect, and interior decorating scheme. For example, men could be imported from the developing countries, many parts of which are suffering from a man excess, at least in relation to local food supply.»
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
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decorate, decorated, decorating, developing, developing countries, escort, escorted, escorting, escorts, food supply, for example, for that matter, import, imported, imports, Interior, in relation to, local, of import, relation to, scheme, supply
«Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain.»
Author: Elizabeth Bowen
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learnt, open to, relation, relation to, solicitude, The Lonely One, touching
«Politics have no relation to morals.»
«Tenacity is a certain quality of the human hand in its relation to the coin of the realm. It attains its highest development in the hand of authority and is considered a serviceable equipment for a career in politics.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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Tenacity
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attains, coin, equipment, Human Relations, realm, relation to, serviceable
«The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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Learning
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between, difference, Into the Unknown, in relation to, learned, least, relation, relation to, to that, trivial, unknown, unknowns
«The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
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bewildered, preconceived, relation to, tragedies
«Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.»
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