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«Religions sprang up among men to deal with the sometimes terrifying aspects of existence, to make sense out of the senseless, to explain things we find inexplicable»
Author: Gore Vidal
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Religion
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aspects, explain, inexplicable, make sense, religions, senseless, sprang, terrifying
«There was emptiness more profound than the void between the stars, for which there was no here and there and before and after, and yet out of that void the entire plenum of existence sprang forth.»
Author: Heinz R. Pagels
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Existence
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Before and After, emptiness, here and there, plenum, sprang, The Void, void
«Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately sprang and stoodIn brighter light and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood?»
Author: William Cullen Bryant
(Writer)
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airs, beauteous, brighter, lately, sisterhood, sprang, The Flowers
«And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth: / But when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.»
«And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up with it, and choked it.»
«For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda; of which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood.»
«The truth was that Jay Gatsby?sprang from his Platonic conception of himself.»
«His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people - his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all. The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God...and he must be about His Father's business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty. So he invented...Jay Gatsby...and to this conception he was faithful to the end.»
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
(Writer)
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conception, farm, His father, jay, Jay Gatsby, Long Island, platonic, shiftless, Son of God, sprang, spring beauty, The Service, unsuccessful
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