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Letter "V" » visions
«There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you have heard told, everything you have read returns to your mind, as if you were being transported, not toward heaven, but toward hell. Under torture you say not only what the inquisitor wants, but also what you imagine might please him, because a bond (this, truly, diabolical) is established between you and him.»
Author: Umberto Eco
(Critic, Novelist)
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arouses, bond, diabolical, dominion, grasses, inquisitor, returns, the Dominion, The Inquisitor, torture, transport, transported, transporting, transports, visions
«The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
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Social service
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active, dreaming, seeing, visions
«I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
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Among the, desires, dreamer, humbler, humblest, Lord's table, lorded, prefer, preferring, realized, The Dreamers, visions
«I Nebuchadnezzar was at rest in mine house, and flourishing in my palace: / I saw a dream which made me afraid, and the thoughts upon my bed and the visions of my head troubled me.»
«Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.»
« Many mystics have said, and it is true, that anything you see is not God. Anything you think is not God, neither are visions, lights, moving objects or anything else. Any sensation or feeling is not God. They are all the products of the creation or your imagination. »
«Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are they not written in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer against Jeroboam the son of Nebat? / And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.»
«The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to you, often are very difficult to interpret (understand). Great passion are for the great of souls. Great events can only be seen by people who are on a level with them. We think we can have our visions for nothing. We cannot. Even the finest and most self-sacrificing visions have to paid for. Strangely enough, that is what makes them fine.»
«Madness is confusion of levels of fact. . . . Madness is not seeing visions but confusing levels.»
«No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise»
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