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selves
«The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars; it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, images powerful enough to deny our nothingness»
«Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.»
Author: Johann Gottfried Von Herder
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet, Theologian)
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for the most part, selves
«The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.»
Author: Lionel Trilling
(Author, Critic, Teacher)
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high society, particularity, quarrel, selves, subversive
«Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.»
Author: Christian Nevell Bovee
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closely, egotism, excessive, morbid, self-consciousness, selves, sensibilities, sensibility, sensitiveness, The Cure
«STRIVE to move away from Untruth towards Truth; attempt to acquire knowledge of yourself and of the origin of all selves and thus shed your fundamental ignorance.»
Author: Atharva Veda
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selves
«One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.»
«So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss, / Which sucks two souls, and vapours both away,/ Turn thou ghost that way, and let me turn this, / And let our selves benight our happiest day.»
Author: John Donne
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benight, breaking away, breaking off, break away, break off, ghost, lamenting, selves, so-so, sucks, vapours
«Those who lose their own selves obtain everything.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
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selves
«Oh! that you could turn your eyes towards the napes of your necks, and make but an interior survey of your good selves.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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Interior, necks, selves, survey, surveys