Exaggeration I abhor, with whims I have
nothing to do, and of
quotation
I am guiltless.
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Dostoevsky - Poor Folk |
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480 TEAS8Cilrt)ElrtAt
DOCTttttfE
Of UETSOTJ.
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Kant - Critique of Pure Reason |
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"
The wide mouth of a blossom
Is pressed
together
in Minna's fingers.
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Amy Lowell |
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“If it is our business to govern, with or
without gratitude, with or without the real and genuine memory of all the loss of which we have
relieved the
population
[Balfour by no means implies, as part of that loss, the loss or at least the
indefinite postponement of Egyptian independence] and no vivid imagination of All the benefits
which we have given to them; if that is our duty, bow is it to be performed?
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Said - Orientalism - Chapter 01 |
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Tell me, miserable, who thou art,
That to me, O
suffering
one, me born to suffer,
Thus true things dost address?
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Nor, though a prince, to be a man refused ;
But rather than in his Eliza's pain
Not love, not grieve, would neither live nor
reign;
And in himself so ofl
immortal
tried.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Other volumes of a similar character followed rapidly, and the young
writer quickly found himself
elevated
in popular esteem to the first
rank of French littérateurs.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 - Lev to Mai |
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Reminiscences
of the Lake Poets.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v11 |
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In Holofernes
It seized me, fed on me; and then gibed on me,
With show of his death
scoffing
at my rage,--
His death!
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Only one other was equally identified with his name in
popular regard,- that on 'Lost Arts'; a brilliant mosaic of apocrypha
from all ages, so plausibly stated that it was hard to resist convic-
tion of their truth while listening to his easy, graceful, conversational
periods, spoken as though he had just
remembered
some interesting
facts and wished to share the pleasure with a group of friends.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v20 - Phi to Qui |
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After a
comfortable
breakfast, served in the car, Mr.
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Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne |
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' Some critics have said that
George Sand's
peasants
were not real.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v22 - Sac to Sha |
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, that is
cosubstantial
with language as such, and that, for this reason, can be assimilated to the il- lusion of the big Other as the "sub- ject supposed to know").
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Hegel - Zizek - With Hegel Beyond He |
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"
A rather pretty idea concerning the stars was
the
following
from a little boy of my acquaint-
ance.
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Childrens - Children's Sayings |
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Quanto a me, sono molto
occupato
in un lavoro aYdatomi da G.
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Ezra-Pounds-Chinese-Friends-Stories-in-Letters |
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Lest these
enclaspèd
hands should never hold,
This mutual kiss drop down between us both
As an unowned thing, once the lips being cold.
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Elizabeth Browning - 4 |
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and other days come back on me
With recollected music, though the tone
Is changed and solemn, like the cloudy groan
Of dying thunder on the distant wind;
Yet could I seat me by this ivied stone
Till I had bodied forth the heated mind,
Forms from the
floating
wreck which ruin leaves behind;
CV.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary,
compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any
word processing or
hypertext
form.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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'He stirs my
sluggish
pulse like wine,
He melts me like the wind of spice, 30
Strong as strong Ajax' red right hand,
And grand like Juno's eyes.
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Christina Rossetti |
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In his story Notes fr0111 the Underground, published in 1864-which not only represents the foundation charter of modern ressentiment psychology, but also the first expression of opposition to globalization, if the backdating of this expression is legitimate-there is a phrase that summarizes, with unsurpassed metaphorical power, the world's coming into the world at the beginning of the end of the age of globalization: I mean his expression ofWestern
civilization
as a "crystal palace.
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Sloterdijk-A-Crystal-Palace |
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Slowness and deliberation are the last
qualities
suggested by Herrick.
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Robert Herrick - Lyric Poems |
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It is taking
place
everywhere
.
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Sloterdijk - God's Zeal |
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Presently he called his little daughter to
his side, and, laying his hand upon the
child’s
head, lay a long while
looking at her.
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Dostoevsky - Poor Folk |
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The child and the man went hand
in hand from that hour into their
eternity
of sorrowful fame.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v24 - Sta to Tal |
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Such music (as 'tis said)
Before was never made
But when of old the sons of morning sung,
While the Creator great
His constellations set
And the well-balanced world on hinges hung;
And cast the dark
foundations
deep,
And bid the weltering waves their oozy channel keep.
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Golden Treasury |
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)
dharmasamketam
ajdndnah kusalapotasya kuialakarmano vydghripotabh- utasya bhramUm kurydn ndsti karmanah phalam iti.
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AbhidharmakosabhasyamVol-4VasubandhuPoussinPruden1991 |
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Why fade these
children
of the spring?
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blake-poems |
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What seems to escape Sullivan, however, is that distress and anxiety can be and often are direct consequences of lack of tenderness and of
separation
per se; and that threats to restrict tenderness would be ineffective were that not so.
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Bowlby - Separation |
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That if a man be never so hun
giy, he dare not steal a dW, or shoot a for sear of
spoiling
of my Lord's game forsooth!
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Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
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By Sidney and
Clifford
Lanier.
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Sidney Lanier |
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—Should the full
bliss of love, which
consists
in unlimited confidence,
## p.
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Nietzsche - v09 - The Dawn of Day |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-27 05:03 GMT / http://hdl.
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Demosthenes - Against Midias |
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Thought Burbank,
meditating
on
Time's ruins, and the seven laws.
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T.S. Eliot |
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And he shall indeed be undefiled, who is free from this offence also ; for this is the last to them who
are returning to God, which was the first as they
departed
from Him.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v1 |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-16 02:37 GMT / http://hdl.
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Trakl - Dichtungen |
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That quality can be compre- hended in those phenomena from which artistic experience emancipated itself, in the relics of an art-alien art, as it were, the justly or
unjustly
so-called lower arts such as the circus, to which in France the cubist painters and their theoreticians turned, and to which in Germany Wedekind turned.
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Theoder-Adorno-Aesthetic-Theory |
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The
Bollandists
3 insert his feast, among the pretermitted ones, at the 18th of May,4
Article VII.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v5 |
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Propitious
shine on all my just desires;
These sacred rites regard with conscious rays, and end our works devoted to your praise.
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Orphic Hymns |
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With your old eyes
Do you hope to see
The triumphal march of
Justice?
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Stephen Crane - Black Riders |
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For the sullen husband, whose spouse is Torone of Phlegra, even he to whom laughter and tears are alike abhorred and who is
ignorant
and reft of both; who once on a time crossed from Thrace unto the coastland which is furrowed by the outflow of Triton; crossed not by sailing ship but by an untrodden path, like some moldwarp, boring a secret passage in the cloven earth, made his ways beneath the sea, avoiding the stranger-slaying wrestling of his sons and sending to his sire prayers which were heard, even that he should set him with returning feet in his fatherland, whence he had come as a wanderer to Pallenia, nurse of the earth-born – he, like Guneus, a doer of justice and arbiter of the Sun’s daughter of Ichnae, shall assail thee with evil words and rob thee of they bridal, casting thee forth in thy desire from thy wanton dove: thee who, regarding not the tombs of Lycus and Chimaereus, glorious in oracles, nor thy love of Antheus nor the pure salt of Aigaeon eaten by host and guest together, didst dare to sin against the gods and to overstep justice, kicking the table and overturning Themis, modeled in the ways of the she-bear that suckled thee.
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Lycophron - Alexandra |
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Thus when we examine various aspects of the essence of will to power as powerfulness of will, we recognize how that
interpretation
of beings stands within the basic movement of Western thought.
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Heidegger - Nietzsche - v1-2 |
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265
Not in my single self alone I found,
But in the minds of all ingenuous youth,
Change and
subversion
from that hour.
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William Wordsworth |
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ai
few moments' recollection, repeated,
" They
ceusured
the bantam for strutting 'anf
M''crowing, .
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Childrens - Frank |
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Furthermore, the belief in the returning Fortuna, who promotes her
beneficiaries
via banks and stock exchanges, needs to be understood as a post-Christian reinterpretation of Protestant fantasies of being chosen—with the danger of thus disclosing the merciless essence of Calvinism, whose true face is expressed in the mystic obscenity of the feel- ing of closeness to God when time has come to an end.
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Sloterdijk - Rage and Time |
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) of the riches
and objects of art of every species with which
Tigranocerta
was crammed.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - a |
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For thousands of years, that was left
entirely
up to simple signal systems consisting of mirrors and torches, which would determine the outcome of battles.
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Kittler-Friedrich-Optical-Media-pdf |
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William
Wordsworth
; how to
know him.
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Elmbendor - Poetry and Poets |
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they faid one to another, S>uit
yourselves
like men, and fight.
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Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
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4 Do we value Plato more highly because he was born at Athens than because he stands out illumined as the
peerless
gift of philosophy?
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Historia Augusta |
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This covert have all the children
Early aged, and often cold, --
Sparrows
unnoticed
by the Father;
Lambs for whom time had not a fold.
| Guess: |
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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The
University
of Cracow, no longer
at the apex of its fame, once more meandering in the
maze of scholasticism, which it tried to exploit in the
services of counter-propaganda, offered passive and
?
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Poland - 1911 - Polish Literature, a Lecture |
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The wondering rivals gaze, with cares oppress'd,
And chilling horrors freeze in every breast,
Till big with knowledge of
approaching
woes,
The prince of augurs, Halitherses, rose:
Prescient he view'd the aerial tracks, and drew
A sure presage from every wing that flew.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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Science does not want to
convince
or make plausible,
and rather seeks to provoke cold distrust by its mode
of expression, by the bareness of its walls.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v07 - Human All-Too-Human - b |
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Only
a few old gentlemen decided in my favour, and for
very diverse and sometimes
unaccountable
reasons.
| Guess: |
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Nietzsche - v17 - Ecce Homo |
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Slow as was the advance of accumulation compared with that of more modern times, it found a check in the natural limits of the exploitable labouring population, limits which could only be got rid of by forcible means to be
mentioned
later.
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Marx - Capital-Volume-I |
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Croatia’s stock market is off 10 percent after brief excitement when EU partnership was signed as the sovereign was downgraded while refusing to consider an IMF program, while renewal negotiations remain bogged down in Serbia, which has turned to the UAE for balance of
payments
help.
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Kleiman International |
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Legamen ad paginam Latinam 16 1
Nevertheless
he did not give up the murder of his cousin, but first, for fear that if he killed him the senate would only turn to some one else, he gave p139 orders that the senate should at once leave the city.
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| Source: |
Historia Augusta |
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Blubb in a
waterproof
tub,
That aquatic old person of Grange.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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He explains that a certain son of
mine, whom the
Arcadians
call a god, howsoever the rest of the
world receive him,' is at hand : 'yonder he keeps, and with him
the wood nymphs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v06 |
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John Black, obtained from Perry an engagement as a reporter, a post he fulfilled so well that he was withdrawn, in 1817, from the gallery to act not exactly as sub-editor—for that
was a functionary hardly recognised in those
days—but
as one of the political writers for the Paper.
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| Source: |
Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v2 |
|
What readjustment should take place between the legis-
lative and
executive
departments of government?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Beard - 1931 - Questions and Problems in American Government - Syllabus by Erbe |
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For they have not had
understanding
in the works of the Lord.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v1 |
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and a thousand thoughts
coursing
uninterruptedly
through my mind made a most painful
impression upon my soul1.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Poland - 1919 - Krasinski - Anonymous Poet of Poland |
|
J'en ai beaucoup connu de tous ces
prétendus diplomates de la méthode empirique qui
mettaient
tout leur
espoir dans un ballon d'essai que je ne tardais pas à dégonfler.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - a |
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Future itself, and this means past futures as well as the prese~t future, must now be conceived as possibly quite
different
from the past.
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The-future-cannot-begin-Niklas-Luhmann |
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Google Book Search helps readers
discover
the world's books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences.
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Spenser - 1592 - Apologie for Poetrie |
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"
He answered in amaze,
" My age you have
mistaken
;
I've lived but thirty days!
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| Source: |
Childrens - Child Verse |
|
I've been
exceedingly
naughty, but I won't do
it any more!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë |
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Do not be
surprised
by or afraid of a great buddha.
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| Source: |
Shobogenzo |
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To many of you, I am afraid, engaged in thera- peutic practice but also hoping to contribute to the advance of
psychoanalytic
science, the con- trasts I am drawing between the roles of practi- tioner and scientist will hardly be welcome.
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A-Secure-Base-Bowlby-Johnf |
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Pox take that
fashion!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais |
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There cannot be the slightest doubt
but that such sportsmen of " saintliness," in whom
at times nearly every nation has abounded, have
really found a genuine relief from that which
they have combated with such a rigorous training
— in countless cases they really escaped by the
help of their system of hypnotism away from deep
physiological depression ; their method is conse-
quently counted among the most
universal
ethno-
logical facts.
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v13 - Genealogy of Morals |
|
Crossing
the
Dardanelles to Abydos, Henry traversed the passes of Ida, and estab-
lished his headquarters at Adramyttium.
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| Source: |
Cambridge Medieval History - v4 - Eastern Roman Empire |
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'4), which may explain his
reticence
over 'the man I gO in fcar of' (48t.
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McHugh-Roland-1976-The-Sigla-of-Finnegans-Wake |
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Do not let it serve some impious
purpose!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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And I have known the arms already, known them all--
Arms that are
braceleted
and white and bare
(But in the lamplight, downed with light brown hair!
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| Source: |
Eliot - Prufrock and Other Observations |
|
Pain or
pleasure
transported her, and the whole of pain or
pleasure might be held in a flower's cup or the imagined frown of
a friend.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
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Tagore - Creative Unity |
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But who was he, that in all his Orations, Decrees
and Adions, with Simplicity of Heart, and without Referve,
devoted himfelf to the Service of that
Republic
?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Demosthenes - Orations - v2 |
|
Hence, he who wants to' manifest truth or wishes to grasp the essence of things should
practise
'bhavana', - meditation.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Bhavanakrama-Stages-of-Meditation-by-Kamalashila |
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-------- The History of English
Dramatic
Poetry to the Time
of Shakespeare; and Annals of the Stage to the Restoration.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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"
This
increased
the mirth of the company, and Margaret was eagerly
pressed to say something more.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Austen - Sense and Sensibility |
|
Henry period, but the Paris scenes are the
best, and, granted their utter
worthlessness
as social types, the drunks and dead-beats of
the cafes are handled with a feeling for character and a mastery of technique that are
unapproached in any at all recent novel.
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| Source: |
Orwell |
|
The desire of a man is
his
judgment
upon him.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Poland - 1915 - Poland, a Study in National Idealism - Monica Gardner |
|
It would give rise to a
frightful increase of prostitution, of
intemperance
and onanism, and
prove destructive to health and moral feelings.
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Knowlton - Fruits of Philosophy- A Treatise on the Population Question |
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Im Fieberbette friert
Der
schwangere
Leib, den frech der Mond bestiert.
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Trakl - Dichtungen |
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His sorrow and lamentation gave the censorious an occasion of suspecting him for
something
more than the uncle of Heloise.
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise |
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She could
just grasp that it was not her husband, her Yann, and that noth-
ing of him,
substantial
or spiritual, had passed through the air;
she felt plunged again into her deep abyss, to the lowest depths
of her terrible despair.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 - Lev to Mai |
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Endurance is explained by the Illumination ofthe Lamp as the same in meaning as clear light, so it does not work out for it to indicate mind
isolation
and magic body.
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Thurman-Robert-a-F-Tr-Tsong-Khapa-Losang-Drakpa-Brilliant-Illumination-of-the-Lamp-of-the-Five-Stages |
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‘There
must be plenty of pubs down there.
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Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
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But after
acknowledging
these Russian and Western debts, we must still ask why it was the Chinese who developed thought reform.
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Lifton-Robert-Jay-Thought-Reform-and-the-Psychology-of-Totalism |
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TO CATO,
DESCRIBING
A "BLACK JOKER.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Next day Plato came to him; and
Socrates
said he
was the bird.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v08 - Dah to Dra |
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Or why was the substance not made more sure
That formed the brave fronts of these
palaces?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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The bull replied: "I am very sorry, but I have an
appointment
with
a lady; but I feel sure that our friend the goat will do what you
want.
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Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
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There is a
discourse
concerning
his government, indeed, with verses intermixed, but
such as certainly gained its author no friends among the abettors of
usurpation.
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Samuel Johnson - Lives of the Poets - 1 |
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Doch den Tod bringt Alles dir,
wo dich dein
Verhängnis
zieht.
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Lament for a Man Dear to Her |
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El moderno
sentimiento
ateo, evocado característicamente por
Pascal con las palabras: «El silencio eterno de los espacios infinitos
me produce espanto», que acompañó a las almas bellas desde el si
glo XVII, tiene una prehistoria compleja que podría reconstruirse en
esbozo por medio de una teoría de las catástrofes esféricas y de las
inmunodeficiencias adquiridas psicocosmológicamente.
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v2 |
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"
"I tell you that I would give one of the
provinces
of my kingdom
to have that photograph.
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Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
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Aricia
Am I to believe a man, prior to his dying breath,
Could
penetrate
to the deep house of the dead?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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