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«It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky... a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
infinity, meditated, meditating, mysterious, ritual, seemed, solemnities, solemnity, transaction, transactions
«Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the LORD, to the mighty One of Israel.»
«There is no absurdity so obvious that it cannot be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to impose it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity»
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
(Philosopher)
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Childhood
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absurdity, firmly, human head, impose, planted, repeating, solemnities, solemnity
«Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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Ability
| Keywords:
commonly, consist, higher degree, mainly, solemnities, solemnity, to a higher degree, to the highest degree
«A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
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Genius
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buoyant, cheerfulness, concomitant, concomitants, erudition, gravity, harmless, hilarity, infrequent, pomposity, solemnities, solemnity
«Disposition to derision and insult is awakened by the softness to foppery, the swell of insolence, the liveliness of levity, or the solemnity of grandeur; by the sprightly trip, the stately stalk, the formal strut, and the lofty mein; by gestures int»
«Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
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appearances, solemnities, solemnity, transparent, tremendous
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