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«To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.»
Author: Emily Dickinson
(Poet)
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
Anything Else, for anything, leaves, startle, startling
«When you look at the startling ruins of Nuremberg, you are looking at a result of the war. When you look at the prisoners on view in the courthouse, you are looking at 22 of the causes.»
Author: Janet Flanner
(Journalist)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
courthouse, Nuremberg, prisoners, prisoner of war, ruins, startling
«If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.»
Author: Madeleine L'Engle
| About:
Faith
| Keywords:
ambiguities, bearable, joys, Other side, side, startle, startling, sudden, The other side, tragedies, verified, verifies, verifying
«The love of their country is with them only a mode of flattering its master; as soon as they think that master can no longer hear, they speak of everything with a frankness which is the more startling because those who listen to it become responsible.»
«A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods.»
«To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.»
«Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity.»
Author: Leonard Cohen
(Novelist, Poet, Singer, Song Writer)
| Keywords:
Delicious, disagreeable, element, manifests, piece of work, social activity, startle, startling, subversion, subversions, subversive
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