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Letter "I" » irony
«What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.»
Author: Georges Bernanos
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adolescence, first flight, hover, hovered, hovers, irony, mixture, surrounds, tenderness, watchfulness, young bird
«The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads to silence, must be revisited: but with irony, not innocently. I think of the postmodern attitude as that of a man who loves a very cultivated woman and knows he cannot say to her, ''I love you madly,'' because he knows that she knows (and that she knows that he knows) that these words have already been written by Barbara Cartland. Still, there is a solution. He can say, ''As Barbara Cartland would put it, I love you madly.''»
Author: Umberto Eco
(Critic, Novelist)
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Barbara, Barbara Cartland, cultivated, innocently, irony, madly, postmodern, recognizing, reply
«Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies . . . I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.»
Author: Edward O. Wilson
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blessed with, directions, drove, energies, irony, redouble, redoubled, redoubling, trace
«The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.»
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