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«It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.»
«A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.»
«GENEALOGY, n. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
account, ancestor, an account, descent, genealogies, genealogy, particularly, trace, tracing
«There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.»
Author: Pablo Picasso
(Artist, Painter)
| About:
Art,
Realism
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abstract, abstracted, abstracting, abstract art, afterward, remove, start, traces, tracing
«Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
Advances, backwards, bored, boredom, root, spreads, the gods, traced, tracing
«Beauty is momentary in the mind / The fitful tracing of a portal; / But in the flesh it is immortal. / The body dies; the body's beauty lives.»
Author: Wallace Stevens
(Poet)
| About:
Beauty
| Keywords:
fitful, in the flesh, momentary, portal, portals, tracing
«What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute. There is no liberty except the liberty of some one making his way towards something. Such a man can be set free if you will teach him the meaning of thirst, and how to trace a path to a well. Only then will he embark upon a course of action that will not be without significance. You could not liberate a stone if there were no law of gravity -- for where will the stone go, once it is quarried?»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Author, Pilot, Writer)
| About:
Freedom
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and how, brute, course of action, desert, dwells, embark, embarked, embarking, embarks, embark on, gravity, law of gravity, liberate, quarries, quarry, setting, set free, significance, stone, The Quarry, thirst, trace, tracing, unfeeling
«Watch the stars, and from them learn. To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.»
«Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity- these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of them.»
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