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«There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him»
Author: Antonin Artaud
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delirium, frightened, madman, misunderstood, prepared, shining, solution, strangulation
«Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy»
«She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on a cloudy day without having thought much about the sun when it was shining.»
«The deep dark-shining Pacific leans on the land Feeling his cold strength To the outmost margins»
«Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand: Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!»
«So, then, to every man his chance - to every man, regardless of his birth, his shining, golden opportunity - to every man the right to live, to work, to be himself, and to become whatever thing his manhood and his vision can combine to make him - thi»
«The one had leaves of dark green that beneath were as shining silver, and from each of his countless flowers a dew of silver light was ever falling, and the earth beneath was dappled with the shadows of his fluttering leaves.»
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
(Author, Writer)
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«The reputation of a woman may be compared to a mirror, shining and bright, but liable to be sullied by every breath that comes near it»
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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Reputation
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compared, liable, shining, sullied, sullying
«Self denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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Self-denial
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Body of, denial, leprous, self-denial, shining, sore, The Shining
«One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.»
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