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«I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am»
«She (Madame Bovary) had that indefinable beauty that comes from happiness, enthusiasm, success - a beauty that is nothing more or less than a harmony of temperament and circumstances»
Author: Gustave Flaubert
(Novelist)
| About:
Beauty
| Keywords:
indefinable, more or less, temperament
«It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.»
«Melancholy is at the bottom of everything, just as at the end of all rivers is the sea. Can it be otherwise in a world where nothing lasts, where all that we have loved or shall love must die? Is death, then, the secret of life? The gloom of an eternal mourning enwraps, more or less closely, every serious and thoughtful soul, as night enwraps the universe.»
Author: Henri Frederic Amiel
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at the bottom, closely, enwrapped, Everything or Nothing, gloom, lasts, more or less, mourning, rivers, thoughtful
«Man thought he had a human spirit. That is totally incorrect. Man is a human spirit which is enwrapped more or less in a mind which is in a body. That is Homo sapiens.»
Author: L. Ron Hubbard
(Founder, Novelist, Writer)
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enwrapped, Homo sapiens, incorrect, more or less, sapiens
«It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.»
«I don't know much about history, and I wouldn't give a nickel for all the history in the world. History is more or less bunk. It is tradition. We want to live in the present, and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make»
Author: Henry Ford
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History,
Traditions
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bunk, give a damn, more or less, tinker, tinkering, tinkers
«I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion which carry the snobs and speculators; the number of true connoisseurs remains more or less the same.»
Author: Pablo Picasso
(Artist, Painter)
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assure, connoisseur, connoisseurs, fashion, fluctuate, fluctuating, involved, involved with, more or less, snobs, speculator, speculators, styles, The Connoisseur, waves
«In the final analysis, ''style'' is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| Keywords:
dehumanized, Final Analysis, in the final analysis, modes, more or less, stylized, stylizing
«Pray, do not mock me:I am a very foolish fond old man,Fourscore and upward, not an hour more, or less:And, to deal plainly,I fear I am not in my perfect mind.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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fond, fourscore, Less Than Perfect, mock, more or less, old man, plainly, upward
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