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in a sense
«To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.»
«The missionary is no longer a man, a conscience. He is a corpse, in the hands of a confraternity, without family, without love, without any of the sentiments that are dear to us. Emasculated, in a sense, by his vow of chastity, he offers us the distressing spectacle of a man deformed and impotent or engaged in a stupid and useless struggle with the sacred needs of the flesh, a struggle which, seven times out of ten, leads him to sodomy, the gallows, or prison.»
Author: Paul Gauguin
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chastity, corpse, deform, deformed, deforms, distressing, emasculated, engaged, gallows, impotent, in a sense, missionary, offers, sentiments, sodomy, spectacle, vow
«We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect.»
Author: Sissela Bok
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attraction, breathing, breathing space, confers, earliest, early childhood, experts, imposes, in a sense, secrecy
«Wilson adventured for the whole of the human race. Not as a servant, but as a champion. So pure was this motive, so unfrocked with anything that his worst enemies could find, except the mildest and most excusable, a personal vanity, practically the minimum to be human, that in a sense his adventure is that of humanity itself. In Wilson, the whole of mankind breaks camp, sets out from home and wrestles with the universe and its gods.»
«The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
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Children,
Mothers,
Relationships
| Keywords:
independent, intense, in a sense, paradoxical, The Mother, tragic
«To produce music is also in a sense to produce children»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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also, children, for music, In a, in a sense, music, Music I, produce, sense
«The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
artifice, artifices, artificial, depict, depicted, depicting, depicts, in a sense, kindred, medium, movement, real life, setting, theatre, The Theatre, to that