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«Subtle he needs must be, who could seduce Angels»
«No one has ever been able to discover how they [cats] make this subtle sound, and what is more, no one ever will. It is a secret that has endured from the very beginning of the time of cats and will never be revealed.»
«We clasp the hands of those that go before us, And the hands of those who come after us. We enter the little circle of each other's arms And the larger circle of lovers, Whose hands are joined in a dance, And the larger circle of all creatures, Passing in and out of life, Who move also in a dance, To a music so subtle and vast that no ear hears it Except in fragments»
Author: Wendell Berry
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circle, clasp, clasped, clasps, come after, dance music, ear, enter, fragmented, fragmenting, fragments, hears, joined, join us, larger, lovers, passing, subtle, vast
«The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.»
Author: Ansel Adams
(Photographer)
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comparable, comparable to, comparable with, composer, differs, print, score, subtle, The Negative
«Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death»
«The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.»
«Time, the subtle thief of youth»
Author: John Milton
(Historian, Poet, Scholar)
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Time,
Youth
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subtle, thief, Thief of Time
«Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that, little by little, example by example, permits us to see that what is most important to our heart, or to our mind, is learned not by reasoning but through other agencies. Then it is that the intellect, observing their superiority, abdicates its control to them upon reasoned grounds and agrees to become their collaborator and lackey.»
Author: Marcel Proust
(Author, Novelist)
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abdicate, abdicated, abdicates, agencies, appropriate, collaborator, collaborators, grounds, lackey, lackeys, observing, permits, reasoned, reasoning, revealing, subtle, superiority
«To injure another person through atonement is one of the most subtle devices of the neurotic, as when, for example, he indulges in self-accusations.»
«The more efficient a force is, the more silent and the more subtle it is.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
efficient, force, silent, subtle, subtler, subtlest
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