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«Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere.»
«No matter how thoroughly and searchingly we may have scrutinized works of literature from the historical and biographical point of view, we must be able to tell good from bad, the first-rate from the second-rate. We shall otherwise not write literary criticism at all, but merely social or political history as reflected in literary texts, or psychological case histories from past eras.»
Author: Edmund Wilson
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«The constant fear of a performer is to become what is reflected back at you.»
«The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our delight and great surprise, we may find our own vision reflected.»
«There is a brief moment when all there is in a man's mind and soul and spirit is reflected through his eyes, his hands, his attitude. This is the moment to record.»
«I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke in me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.»
«Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.»
«People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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causing, converts, likeness, likenesses, peculiar, reflected, represented, thus
«There lived a Parsee from whose hat the rays of the sun were reflected in more-than-oriental splendour.»
«There is one in the world who feels for him who is sad a keener pang than he feels for himself; there is one to whom reflected joy is better than that which comes direct; there is one who rejoices in another?s honor, more than in any which is one?s own.»
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