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intangible
«There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.»
Author: Natalie Clifford Barney
(Writer)
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excluded, float, formless, intangible, intangibles, interpreters, realities
«Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial thing, commonplace, uncalled for, natural as air. It is intangible; no one can grasp it or fight against it; it dwells in time / is the same thing as time; if it comes in fits and starts, that is only so as to leave the sufferer more defenseless during the moments that follow, those long moments when one relives the last bout of torture and waits for the next.»
Author: Cesare Pavese
(Critic, Novelist, Poet, Translator)
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bestial, bout, bouts, by fits and starts, by no means, commonplace, defenseless, dwells, fierce, fits, intangible, intangibles, nobility, privilege, relive, relives, reliving, reminder, reminders, so as to, sufferer, sufferers, torture, uncalled-for, waits
«What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one.... It?s this in-between that I?m calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible one?which is really the realm of the artist.»
Author: Federico Fellini
(Film Director)
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frontier, in-between, intangible, intangibles, physical world, province, Provinces of, provincial, realm, tangible
«If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism. The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
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addict, addiction, cured, drug addict, drug addiction, drug addicts, haunts, House of the Dead, intangible, intangibles, organism, recasting, smoking, There exists
«Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features»
Author: Joseph Joubert
(Essayist)
| About:
Genius
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features, intangible, intangibles, invisible, manipulate, manipulated, Manipulating
«Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.»
Author: Napoleon Hill
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complete, concrete, definitely, desire, form, given, intangible, intangibles, plan, reduce, writing
«The true harvest of my life is intangible - a little star dust caught, a portion of the rainbow I have clutched»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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all star, a little, catch on, catch up with, caught, clutched, clutches, clutching, dust, dusted, dusting, Dust to Dust, harvest, harvested, harvesting, harvests, intangible, intangibles, little, Over the Rainbow, portion, portion out, rainbow, Rainbows, star, starred, starring, The Catch, The Rainbow, the true, True Life, true to life
«Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
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fecal, fecal matter, historically, intangible, intangibles, proximity, repulsion, unmentionable, wield, wielded, wields