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«I perceived that to express those impressions, to write that essential book, which is the only true one, a great writer does not, in the current meaning of the word, invent it, but, since it exists already in each one of us, interprets it. The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter.»
Author: Marcel Proust
(Author, Novelist)
| About:
Books,
Writing
| Keywords:
current, express, impressions, interpreter, interprets, invent, One of Us, perceived, The Current, The Task, The Word, writer
«If you cry ''Forward'' you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Don't you see that if you fail to do that and simply call out the word to a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in precisely opposite directions?»
Author: Anton Chekhov
| Keywords:
call out, clear, cry, direction, directions, forward, go in, monk, opposite, precisely, revolutionaries, revolutionary, The Monk, The Monks, The Word
«For diplomacy to be effective, words must be credible - and no one can now doubt the word of America.»
«Am I going mad, or did the word 'think' just escape your lips?»
«I have ... a terrible need ... shall I say the word? ... of religion. Then I go out at night and paint the stars.»
«Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
brow, brows, The Brow, The Word, written, written word
«A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
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cell, darkness, diminish, glory, glorying, god, him, His, lunatic, no more, out, put, put out, put over, put through, put under, Refusing, scribble, scribbled, scribbles, scribbling, sun, suns, The Cell, The Sun, The Word, walled, walls, wall in, wall up, word, worship, worshipping
«Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.»
Author: Carl Gustav Jung
(Founder, Psychologist)
| About:
Happiness,
Sadness
| Keywords:
balanced, come along, equanimity, for good measure, Happy Life, sadness, The Word, with patience
«I heard the bells on Christmas Day; their old familiar carols play, and wild and sweet the word repeat of peace on earth, good-will to men!»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
| About:
Christmas
| Keywords:
bells, Better Days, carol, carols, Christmas, Christmases, Christmas Day, earth, familiar, familiars, good will, heard, old, old earth, on earth, peace, Peace On Earth, play, repeat, sweet, The Word, wild, Wilder, wilds, wild man, word
«Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Action
| Keywords:
discretion, suit, tame, tamer, tames, tamest, taming, the Action, The Word, tutor, tutored, tutors
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