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«When I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and it is all one.»
«When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.»
Author: Miles Franklin
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affections, bog, bogged, bogs, delirious, fabric, Fair Play, inhuman, trustworthy, warmth
«The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate.»
Author: William Shenstone
(Writer)
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cooperate, cooperated, cooperating, forcibly, frame, letters, received, warmth
«We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.»
Author: Jean Paul Richter
(Novelist)
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clearness, impede, impeded, impedes, impeding, Real Character, warmth
«We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.»
«The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.»
«The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength /each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.»
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
(Writer)
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asking, curse, deceptive, desiring, disinterestedly, find oneself, gaining, individuals, joined, plenitude, seeks, self-seeking, transcend, unable, warmth, wrapped, wrapped up
«The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle. Nearly all those who think they have this capacity do not possess it. Warmth of heart, impulsiveness, pity are not enough.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
impulsiveness, nearly, sufferer, sufferers, warmth
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