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picturesque
«I live in my house as I live inside my skin: I know more beautiful, more ample, more sturdy and more picturesque skins: but it would seem to me unnatural to exchange them for mine.»
Author: Primo Levi
(Author, Chemist, Writer)
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ample, picturesque, skins, sturdy, unnatural
«How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, who will unmask his mind, unbutton his brains, and pour forth in careless and picturesque phrase all the results of his studies and observation; his knowledge of men, books, and nature. On the contrary, if a man has by any chance an original idea, he hoards it as if it were old gold; and rather avoids the subject with which he is most conversant, from fear that you may appropriate his best thoughts.»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
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abilities, acquirement, acquirements, appropriate, avoids, book of knowledge, Brain may, careless, conversant, encounter, hoard, hoarded, hoarding, hoards, observation, old gold, on the contrary, phrase, picturesque, pour, pour forth, studies, unbutton, unbuttoning, unmask, unmasked, unmasking, unmasks
«Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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fanatics, gestures, mankind, picturesque, reasons
«At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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at bottom, diversities, diversity, extraordinary, marvelously, picturesque, put together, Second Chance, second time, unity, well enough
«No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land.»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
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antiquity, commonplace, conceive of, daylight, gloomy, happily, native, native land, picturesque, trial
«Pictures must not be too picturesque.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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Vision
| Keywords:
pictures, picturesque