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Letter "C" » covers
«How have I been able to live so long outside Nature without identifying myself with it? Everything lives, moves, everything corresponds; the magnetic rays, emanating either from myself or from others, cross the limitless chain of created things unimpeded; it is a transparent network that covers the world, and its slender threads communicate themselves by degrees to the planets and stars. Captive now upon earth, I commune with the chorus of the stars who share in my joys and sorrows.»
Author: Gerard de Nerval
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Keywords:
commune,
corresponds,
covers,
degrees,
emanate,
identifying,
in chorus,
rays,
the Chorus,
transparent,
unimpeded
«Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate»
«I have flabby thighs, but fortunately my stomach covers them.»
«In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.»
Author: Leo Rosten
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Novelist)
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Keywords:
colony,
covers,
cries,
destructiveness,
magnificent,
malice,
muffle,
muffled,
muffling,
newt,
newts,
the books,
the colonies
«Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.»
«Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind.»
«Intolerance is the ''Do Not Touch'' sign on something that cannot bear touching. We do not mind having our hair ruffled, but we will not tolerate any familiarity with the toupee which covers our baldness.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
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Writer)
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Keywords:
baldness,
bear in mind,
covers,
familiarity,
intolerance,
ruffled,
ruffles,
sign on,
The Do,
tolerate,
touching,
toupee
«Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self, in which case, it is best that the garment be loose, a little like the robes of the desert, through which one's nakedness can always be felt, and, sometimes, discerned.»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
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Essayist,
Novelist,
Playwright)
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Keywords:
covers,
desert,
discerned,
discerns,
garment,
identities,
identity,
loose,
nakedness,
robed,
Robes,
the self
«Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.»
«In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(
Author,
President)
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About:
Truth
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Keywords:
artificial,
covers,
equivalent,
good-humored,
good humor,
habitual,
in truth,
nearly,
politeness,
rendering,
substitute,
The Natural