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Before and After
«In the life of children there are two very clear-cut phases, before and after puberty. Before puberty the child's personality has not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and make it acquire specific habits of order, discipline, and work: after puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious, tyrannical, insufferable. Now it so happens that parents feel the responsibility towards their children precisely during this second period, when it is too late: then of course the stick and violence enter the scene and yield very few results indeed. Why not instead take an interest in the child during the first period?»
Author: Antonio Gramsci
(Founder, Politician)
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«There was emptiness more profound than the void between the stars, for which there was no here and there and before and after, and yet out of that void the entire plenum of existence sprang forth.»
Author: Heinz R. Pagels
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Existence
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Before and After, emptiness, here and there, plenum, sprang, The Void, void
«We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought»
«Love is eternal - the aspect may change, but not the essence. There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. The lamp was there and was a good lamp, but now it is shed»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
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Love
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aspect, Before and After, burning, essence, lamp, shed, unlighted
«When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in the eternity before and after, the little space I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of space of which I am ignorant, and which knows me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there, why now rather than then?»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
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Life
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«Perhaps it will seem to you that the sunshine is brighter and that everything has a new charm. At least, I believe this is always the result of a deep love, and it is a beautiful thing. And I believe people who think love prevents one from thinking clearly are wrong; for then one thinks very clearly and is more active than before. And love is something eternal--the aspect may change, but not the essence. There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. The lamp was there and it was a good lamp, but now it is shedding light too, and that is its real function. And love makes one calmer about many things, and in that way, one is more fit for one's work.»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
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«Sure, he, that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-like reason, to fust in us unused.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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Before and After, capability, discourse, discourses, unused, unused to