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«I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice cream»
Author: Heywood C. Broun
(Writer)
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Doubt
| Keywords:
cream, For any, ice, ice cream, soul-stirring, stirring, stirrings
«Every sincere break with Communism is a religious experience, though the Communists fail to identify its true nature, though he fail to go to the end of the experience. His break is the political expression of the perpetual need of the soul whose first faint stirring he has felt within him, years, months or days before he breaks. A Communist breaks because he must choose at last between irreconcilable opposites ? God or Man, Soul or Mind, Freedom or Communism.»
Author: Whittaker Chambers
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«Let the bucket of memory down into the well,bring it up. Cool, cool minutes. No onestirring, no plans. Just being there.»
«It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labour of peace.»
«All that stirring of old instincts which at stated periods drives men out from the sounding cities to forest and plain to kill things by chemically propelled leaden pellets, the blood lust, the joy to kill--all this was Buck's, only it was infinitely more intimate. He was ranging at the head of the pack, running the wild thing down, the living meat, to kill with his own teeth and wash his muzzle to the eyes in warm blood.»
Author: Jack London
(Novelist, Writer)
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«It is better to stir up a question without deciding it than to decide it without stirring it up»
«April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.»
«It is regrettable that a Dostoyevsky did not live near this most interesting of all decadents (Jesus Christ) - I mean someone who would have known how to sense the very stirring charm of such a mixture of the sublime, the sickly, and the childlike»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
Dostoyevsky, mixture, regrettable, sickly, stirring, sublime, the sublime
«Formerly, his heart had been as a locked casket with its treasure inside; but now the casket was empty, and the lock was broken. Left groping in darkness, with his prop utterly gone, Silas had inevitably a sense, though a dull and half-despairing one, that if any help came to him it must come from without; and there was a slight stirring of expectation at the sight of his fellow-men, a faint consciousness of dependence on their goodwill.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
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«Not a mouse stirring.»
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