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«Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes, and incomprehensibly to himself, all his progress should enter so swiftly into the work that he is unable to recognize them in the moment of transition. Alas, the artist who waits in ambush there, watching, detaining them, will find them transformed like the beautiful gold in the fairy tale which cannot remain gold because some small detail was not taken care of.»
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
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«My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.»
Author: Walter Savage Landor
(Writer)
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Company
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detain, detained, dismiss, dismissed, dismisses, dismissing, my thoughts, select
«And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah, Though thou detain me, I will not eat of thy bread: and if thou wilt offer a burnt offering, thou must offer it unto the LORD. For Manoah knew not that he was an angel of the LORD.»
«Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the LORD; and his name was Doeg, an Edomite, the chiefest of the herdmen that belonged to Saul.»
«And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD, I pray thee, let us detain thee, until we shall have made ready a kid for thee.»
«On a day of burial there is no perspective -- for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury him is a day of chores and crowds, of hands false or true to be shaken, of the immediate cares of mourning. The dead friend will not really die until tomorrow, when silence is round you again. Then he will show himself complete, as he was -- to tear himself away, as he was, from the substantial you. Only then will you cry out because of him who is leaving and whom you cannot detain.»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Author, Pilot, Writer)
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«ARREST, v.t. Formally to detain one accused of unusualness.God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh. --_The Unauthorized Version_»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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accused, arrest, detain, detained, formally, Six Days, unauthorized, unusualness
«A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them»
«Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long detained»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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Judgement
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detain, detained, magnifying, restrain
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