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«For me chemistry represented an indefinite cloud of future potentialities which enveloped my life to come in black volutes torn by fiery flashes, like those which had hidden Mount Sinai. Like Moses, from that cloud I expected my law, the principle of order in me, around me, and in the world. I would watch the buds swell in spring, the mica glint in the granite, my own hands, and I would say to myself: ''I will understand this, too, I will understand everything.''»
Author: Primo Levi
(Author, Chemist, Writer)
| Keywords:
buds, chemistry, envelop, enveloped, enveloping, envelops, fiery, flashes, glint, granite, indefinite, mica, Moses, mount, Mount Sinai, potentialities, represented, Sinai, swell, torn
«Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air and sea, and while the soul of Mozart seems to dwell on the ethereal peaks of Olympus, that of Beethoven climbs shuddering the storm-beaten sides of a Sinai. Blessed be they both! Each represents a moment of the ideal life, each does us good. Our love is due to both.»
Author: Henri Frederic Amiel
| About:
Music
| Keywords:
beaten, Beethoven, classic, dwell on, ethereal, grandeur, Mozart, Olympus, peaks, purity, represents, romantic, shuddered, shuddering, shudders, Sinai, storms, The Romantic
«I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.»
Author: Orson Welles
| About:
Actors and acting
| Keywords:
beard, bearded, cheap, mount, mounting, mounts, Mount Sinai, mount up, seats, Sinai, sit back, theatre, The Theatre, wearing
«But among these there was not a man of them whom Moses and Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.»
«As the LORD commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.»
«For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.»
«It is a continual burnt offering, which was ordained in mount Sinai for a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD.»
«For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the mount.»
«In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai.»
«It is said that from Mount Sinai God gave, amid thunderings and lightnings, ten commandments for the guidance of mankind; and yet among them is not found Thou shalt believe The Bible»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| Keywords:
Amid, Commandments, guidance, mount, Mount Sinai, Sinai, Ten Commandments
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