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Letter "T" » touchstones
«A child's hand in yours-what tenderness it arouses, what power it conjures. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.»
Author: Marjorie Holmes
| About:
Power,
Strength,
Tenderness,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
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«I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. I want a man lying over me, always over me. His will, his pleasure, his desire, his life, his work, his sexuality the touchstone, the command, my pivot. I don?t mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated. I don?t mind being told to stand on my own feet, not to cling, be all that I am capable of doing, but I am going to be pursued, fucked, possessed by the will of a male at his time, his bidding.»
Author: Anais Nin
(Author)
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«The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.»
Author: George Meredith
(Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
carnival, carnivals, egoism, touchstone, touchstones
«The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
delight, exaltation, excellence, surely, The sense, touchstone, touchstones
«Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticizing. Criticism can never be a science: it is, in the first place, much too personal, and in the second, it is concerned with values that science ignores. The touchstone is emotion, not reason. We judge a work of art by its effect on our sincere and vital emotion, and nothing else. All the critical twiddle-twaddle about style and form, all this pseudoscientific classifying and analyzing of books in an imitation-botanical fashion, is mere impertinence and mostly dull jargon.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
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«Dreams are the touchstones of our character.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Character,
Dreams
| Keywords:
touchstones
«Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone.»
Author: Joseph Joubert
(Essayist)
| Keywords:
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«Meditate on the Lord, Har, Har, O my beloved; follow the Guru's Teachings, and speak of the Lord. Apply the Touchstone of Truth to your mind, and see if it comes up to its full weight.»
«He draws us to His Touchstone, to test our love and consciousness. The counterfeit have no place there, but the genuine are placed in His Treasury.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
| Keywords:
touchstones
«Men have a touchstone whereby to try gold, but gold is the touchstone whereby to try men.»
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