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«The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything -- gestures, sounds, words, screams, light, darkness -- rediscovers itself at precisely the point where the mind requires a language to express its manifestations. To break through language in order to touch life is to create or recreate the theatre.»
Author: Antonin Artaud
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breaking point, break through, express, gestures, light touch, manifestations, no touch, of sound mind, precisely, re-create, re-created, recreate, recreates, recreating, rediscover, rediscovered, rediscovering, rediscovers, screams, sounds, theater, theaters, theatre, the point, The Theatre
«To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.»
«To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.»
«The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations»
«The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference»
Author: Charles Darwin
(Author, Naturalist)
| About:
Universe
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at bottom, design, no-good, observe, pitiless, precisely, properties
«They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.»
«The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.»
Author: Jose Ortega y Gasset
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activities, awaken, capacities, difficulties, mobilize, mobilized, mobilizes, mobilizing, precisely
«The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
(Author, Essayist, Poet)
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Literature,
Writing
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affect, difficulty, literature, precisely, reader
«The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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against, assuming, beings, brings, by far, courageous, formidable, honor, human beings, painful, precisely, spiritual, tragedies, weapons
«The allurement that women hold out to men is precisely the allurement that Cape Hatteras holds out to sailors: they are enormously dangerous and hence enormously fascinating»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Men and Women
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allurement, allurements, cape, Cape Hatteras, enormously, fascinate, fascinates, fascinating, hence, holds, hold out, out to, precisely, sailors
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