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«Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own.»
«The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.»
«The description is not the described; I can describe the mountain, but the description is not the mountain, and if you are caught up in the description, as most people are, then you will never see the mountain»
Author: Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
caught, caught up, describe, described, description, descriptions, mountain, the Mountain
«What girls do to each other is beyond description. No chinese torture comes close.»
Author: Tori Amos
(Singer)
| Keywords:
Chinese, description, descriptions, Girls, torture, torturing, to each other
«The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it with sensory completeness. We need a science of description. Criticism is ceremonial revivification.»
«Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| Keywords:
description, Great A, lively, well-chosen
«The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it»
«To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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accurate, culture, description, descriptions, historian, inalienable, occupation, occurred, privilege, proper
«Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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counterfeit, description, infest, infested, infesting, sentimentalist, sentimentalists
«The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement»
Author: William Faulkner
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
description, descriptions, understatement, understatements
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