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extreme
«Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise ever focused, so that we remember what we otherwise spend most of our lives forgetting: that our nature and purpose is, more than anything else, to love and to make love, to take joy from the beauty of the world, to live with an awareness that the future is not as real a place for any of us as are the present and the past.»
Author: Dean Koontz
| Keywords:
ambitions, extreme, focused, focusing, forgetting, intensely, make love, Present and the Past, pretenses, strips
«Relationship is a pervading and changing mystery...brutal or lovely, the mystery waits for people wherever they go, whatever extreme they run to.»
«There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed.»
«People in love, it is well known, suffer extreme conceptual delusions, the most common of these being that other people find your condition as thrilling and eye-watering as you do yourselves»
Author: Julian Barnes
(Author, Critic)
| About:
Love,
People
| Keywords:
conceptual, Delusions, extreme, eye condition, thrilling, watering, well known
«People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.»
Author: Stendhal
| About:
People
| Keywords:
dazzle, dazzled, dazzles, dazzling, extreme, intimacy, in evidence, politeness, proportions, regain, regaining, self-conscious, varnish, varnished
«Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the artistic expressions of monkeys which are quite satisfied with mere imitation. In fact, art is never realistic though sometimes it is tempted to be. To be really realistic a description would have to be endless.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
artistic, description, expressions, extreme, imitation, Monkeys, realism, realistic, tempted
«One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
ascribed, ascribes, err, extreme, rarely, vanity
«Men rush to California and Australia as if the true gold were to be found in that direction; but that is to go to the very opposite extreme to where it lies. They go prospecting farther and farther away from the true lead, and are most unfortunate when they think themselves most successful.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
Australia, California, extreme, farther, gold rush, most successful, prospecting, rush, unfortunate