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«I must not think of thee; and, tired yet strong, / I shun the thought that lurks in all delight - / The thought of thee - and in the blue heaven's height, / And in the sweetest passage of a song.»
«New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights»
Author: Hamilton Wright Mabie
| About:
New Year
| Keywords:
breathless, come with, Eve, every month, every other, march, moment of silence, nights, noted, passage, pause, The Coming, this evening, twelve
«Perhaps what I do not manage to operate rapidly enough is the passage between the outside and the inside.»
Author: Helene Cixous
| About:
Introversion,
Self-Awareness,
Women,
Writing
| Keywords:
manage, operate, passage, rapidly
«Just finding somebody that was your best friend, who you could be with and enjoy the passage of time--and that's what I found.»
«He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up his carriages: / They are gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled.»
«It?s a secret, religious, weird, ceremonial rite of passage for girls that women know. Hopscotch, it was bizarre for boys, ?cause they never played it, and as a boy, I was behind walls, going, ?What- what happened? What did they do? What do they do here?? And they had a track laid out with numbers, mystic numbers- 1, 5? 7, 8, you know? A bit of a broken doll there, some girl keeping lookout with a skipping rope?»
«I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.»
«If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws. Now, once we observe that destruction is so useful to her that she absolutely cannot dispense with it from this moment onward the idea of annihilation which we attach to death ceases to be real what we call the end of the living animal is no longer a true finish, but a simple transformation, a transmutation of matter. According to these irrefutable principles, death is hence no more than a change of form, an imperceptible passage from one existence into another.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
annihilation, attach, attach to, ceases, denies, destruction, dispense, dispensed, dispenses, dispense with, dispensing, finish, hence, imperceptible, irrefutable, observe, onward, passage, transformation, transformations, transmutation
«He that suffers the slightest breach in his morality can seldom tell what shall enter it, or how wide it shall be made; when a passage is open, the influx of corruption is every moment wearing down opposition, and by slow degrees deluges the heart»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
breach, corruption, degrees, deluge, deluges, influx, passage, slightest, The Deluge, wear down