A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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The young countess felt that she had acted wrongly, and yet there was an
instinct--an
instinct
that she could not conquer.
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Orr - Famous Affinities of History, Romacen of Devotion |
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First, although this efficacity manifests itself through the effects of both types, it cannot be thought of in terms of an underlying (hidden) governing wholeness, either indivisible or "atomic," so as to be corre- lated with manifest (lawless) effects, while subject to an underlying
coherent
architecture that is not manifest itself.
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Paul-de-Man-Material-Events |
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The drawbridge is let down, and the broad gates unbarred and borne open
upon both sides, and the knight, after commending the castle to Christ,
passes thereout and goes on his way
accompanied
by his guide, that
should teach him to turn to that place where he should receive the
much-dreaded blow.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Shovelling is comparatively easy when you are standing up, because you can use your
knee and thigh to drive the shovel along;
kneeling
down, the whole of the strain is thrown
upon your arm and belly muscles.
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Orwell |
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By
reaching
the limit of the four assurances (gding-bzhi) , sarpsara is liberated in nirva1).
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Dudjom Rinpoche - Fundamentals and History of the Nyingmapa |
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OUR swimmer on his back the
princess
bore;
The rock attained; but hardships were not o'er;
Misfortunes dire the noble pair pursued
And famine, worst of ills, around was viewed.
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La Fontaine |
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No more patriotism of barspongers and
dropsical
impostors.
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James Joyce - Ulysses |
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If we define a poem, we say what we think about it; and that
may not
sufficiently
imply the essential thing the poem does for us.
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ji ;"i i;
ii
ii; i;: : ; -'i; a
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Sloterdijk - Spheres - v1 |
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--One ought to learn anew about cruelty, and open one's eyes;
one ought at last to learn impatience, in order that such immodest
gross errors--as, for instance, have been fostered by ancient and
modern
philosophers
with regard to tragedy--may no longer wander about
virtuously and boldly.
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Niezsche - Beyond Good and Evil |
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Were it naturally pos-
sible that this
idleness
should attempt to gain dominion
over the true-minded and virtuous Student, he would never
for a moment endure it.
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Fichte - Nature of the Scholar |
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Of the law of duty we are
immediately
certain;--the world
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XLIX
Which when the knights beheld, amazd they were, 415
And wondred at so fowle
deformed
wight.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Therewithal at my behest
Shall Lyctian Aegon and
Damoetas
sing,
And Alphesiboeus emulate in dance
The dancing Satyrs.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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They would suffer there all the
weariness
the Commander has suffered in
heaven.
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Man and Superman- A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw |
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Therefore
hybrid forms of hate also flourished against their own kind.
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Sloterdijk-Post-War |
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Whereas art opposes society, it is nevertheless unable to take up a position beyond it; it
achieves
opposition only through identification with that against which it remonstrates.
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Theoder-Adorno-Aesthetic-Theory |
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Again, as if her mother's
agonized
gesture were meant only
to make sport for her, did little Pearl look into her eyes, and
smile!
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Hawthorne - Scarlett Letter |
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But this statement is scarcely
applicable
now.
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Marvell - Poems |
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The eagerness and subtlety, I should even say craftiness, with
which the problem of "the real and the
apparent
world" is dealt with at
present throughout Europe, furnishes food for thought and attention; and
he who hears only a "Will to Truth" in the background, and nothing else,
cannot certainly boast of the sharpest ears.
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Niezsche - Beyond Good and Evil |
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It results from the
appreciation
of the
distance which separates Alesia from the battle-field where Cæsar
defeated the cavalry of Vercingetorix.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - b |
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9 change to friends, friends to enemies: in all these changes nothing goes beyond its
essential
nature of impermanence.
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Kalu-Rinpoche-Foundation-of-Buddhist-Meditation |
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"Have you been engaged to be
married?
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Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground |
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XX "Now this poor widow waiteth all that night 135
After her little Child, and he came not;
For which, by earliest glimpse of morning light,
With face all pale with dread and busy thought,
She at the School and
elsewhere
him hath sought,
Until thus far she learned, that he had been 140
In the Jews' street, and there he last was seen.
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William Wordsworth |
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"What's that that whimpers
over’ead
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v15 - Kab to Les |
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Regulations in 1793
attempted
to deal with these, but without much
effect.
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Cambridge History of India - v5 - British India |
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I was
invited to dine with the Grand Vizier's lady, and it was with a great
deal of pleasure I
prepared
myself for an entertainment which was
never given before to any Christian.
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Selection of English Letters |
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The
twilight
is no other thing, we say, II.
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Robert Herrick - Hesperide and Noble Numbers |
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There was an unmistakable element of taking the bull by the horns at work, as Hubbard had reason to fear the reac- tion of the organized medical
profession
after the disproportionate success of his self-help therapy book.
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Sloterdijk - You Must Change Your Life |
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But, on coming to the top of a high hill, they perceived at a
long
distance
off a Clangle-Wangle (or, as it is more properly written,
Clangel-Wangel); and, in spite of the warning they had had, they ran
straight up to it.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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'Tis but to know how little can be known;
To see all others' faults, and feel our own;
Condemned in
business
or in arts to drudge,
Without a second or without a judge;
Truths would you teach or save a sinking land,
All fear, none aid you, and few understand.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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How a ring-dove
Let fall a sprig of yew tree in his path;
And how he died: and then, that love doth scathe,
The gentle heart, as
northern
blasts do roses;
And then the ballad of his sad life closes
With sighs, and an alas!
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Keats |
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That Pandarus, that ever dide his might
Right for the fyn that I shal speke of here,
As for to bringe to his hous som night
His faire nece, and Troilus y-fere, 515
Wher-as at leyser al this heigh matere,
Touching
hir love, were at the fulle up-bounde,
Hadde out of doute a tyme to it founde.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Heathcliff
was there--laid on his back.
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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë |
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My heart, irritated by all but the one thing,
the
primitive
creature's absolute candour,
is unwilling to show its infernal secret to you,
cradler whose hand invites to deep slumber,
and its black inscription written in fire,
I hate passion, the spirit sickens me too!
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Andre Breton - First Manifesto of Surrealism - 1924 |
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The gods, when they supremely bless, bestow
Firm union on their
favourites
below;
Then envy grieves, with inly-pining hate;
The good exult, and heaven is in our state.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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This is considered the most fitting
practice
to discipline peo- ple of a greater predominance of ignorance and active mind.
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Jig-Me-Lingpa-The-Dzogchen-Innermost-Essence-Preliminary-Practice |
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I only saw Ivan
Kouzmitch
when
military duties brought us in contact.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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My mother says he is the most
delightful
young man
in the world; she saw him this morning, you know; you must introduce him
to me.
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Austen - Northanger Abbey |
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happy are the blessed souls that sing
Loud
hallelujahs
in eternal ring!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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This mind, which naturally subsides, is the Dharmak~ya, by nature a clear, void brilliance, devoid of
anything
to be subsided or anything to do the subsiding.
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Wang-ch-ug-Dor-je-Mahamudra-Eliminating-the-Darkness-of-Ignorance |
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--- released
him from further obligation that he might accept the chair of geol-
ogy in the Lawrence
Scientific
School of Harvard l'niversity.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v01 - A to Apu |
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The period and work of Fra Paolo in Ve
nice is
important
because it demonstrates
the errors and vices of the Papacy, and
shoivs how the Pope's usurpation of power
transcended the rights of the CathoHc
Church.
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Sarpi - 1888 - History of Fra Paolo Sarpi 2 |
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Were there no other depopulating causes, every country would, without
doubt, be subject to
periodical
pestilences or famine.
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Malthus - An Essay on the Principle of Population |
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J
" What is it that drops the same thought into ten
thousand
minds at the same moment 5 —the Newspaper.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v1 |
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USHEEN
We
galloped
over the glossy sea:
I know not if days passed or hours,
And Niam sang continually
Danaan songs, and their dewy showers
Of pensive laughter, unhuman sound,
Lulled weariness, and softly round
My human sorrow her white arms wound.
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Yeats - Poems |
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In the same way, we have to recognize what is
projecting
all these manifestations.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Spiritual-Song-of-Lodro-Thaye |
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He had long formed a clear, albeit still
unwelcome
idea of this adversary's strengths on the pre-conscious level.
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Sloterdijk - You Must Change Your Life |
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Wonderful,
Never to feel thee thrill the day or night
With personal act or speech,--nor ever cull
Some prescience of thee with the blossoms white
Thou sawest
growing!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Miss Bingley moved with some alacrity
to the pianoforte; and, after a polite request that Elizabeth would lead
the way which the other as
politely
and more earnestly negatived, she
seated herself.
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Austen - Pride and Prejudice |
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With this edition, the Bollan- dists place the
additions
of Florus and of other old Martyrologists.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v3 |
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Benevolence is man's mind and
righteousness
is man's path.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 to v10 - Cal to Fro |
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What queen or
powerful
lady did not envy me my joys and my bed?
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise - 1st Letter |
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His first patron was
Viscount
Eble III of Ventadorn.
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Troubador Verse |
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It implies the project of transposing the entire life of work, wishes, and expression of the people that it has
captured
into the immanence of purchasing power.
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Sloterdijk-A-Crystal-Palace |
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I have already tried to explain how I believe that the humanities, above all through the cultivation of counterintuitive thinking, can play an
important
role in present-day societies.
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Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht - Reactions to Geoffrey Galt Harpham's Diagnosis of the Humanities Today |
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εφόρεσε ο Τηλέμαχος τα σάνδαλα τα ωραία, 550
κ' επήρε απ' το κατάστρωμα κοντάρι λογχοφόρο
βαρύ• και τα πρυμόσχοινα ωστόσο εκείνοι ελύσαν,
εξεκινήσαν κ' έπλεαν κατά την πόλι, ως είπε
ο περιπόθητος υιός του
θείου
Οδυσσέα.
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Homer - Odyssey - Greek |
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Thesecircumstances
supply a stong corroboration of my law of sexual affinity,
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Weininger - 1903 - Sex and Character |
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His attainments were so far beyond his years that when
he had reached the age of twelve his father invited the
most learned men and best
teachers
in the country to put
his son through an elaborate examination in his palace.
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Poland - 1919 - Krasinski - Anonymous Poet of Poland |
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The years had not
sharpened
their smooth round faces,
I met their eyes and found them mild--
Do they, too, dream of me, I wonder,
And for them am I too a child?
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Sara Teasdale - Flame and Shadow |
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Nevertheless, this work is expensive, so in order to keep providing this resource, we have taken steps to prevent abuse by commercial parties, including placing technical restrictions on
automated
querying.
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Attic Nights of Aullus Gellius - 1792 |
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a
's,
; ;
CLAUDIAN
quis vero acerbis horridior Scythis, quis beluarum corde furentior,
qui, cum micantem te prope viderit, non optet ultro servitium pati,
qui non catenas
adripiat
libens
colloque poscat vincula libero ?
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Claudian - 1922 - Loeb |
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He is apparently a trade name, for at least one series of post cards is issued simply as
‘The Donald McGill Comics’, but he is also
unquestionable
a real person with a style of
drawing which is recognizable at a glance.
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Orwell |
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As President Obama jetted there for a global entrepreneur summit, an international travel warning
remained
in effect due to rampant crime and the threat of Al-Shabab atrocities as the Westgate Mall re-opened 2 years after mass killings.
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Kleiman International |
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But reviving those who have been killed and other such practices are just
ordinary
powers.
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Tarthang-Tulku-Mother-of-Knowledge-The-Enlightenment-of-Yeshe-Tsogyal |
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:--The
Prophecy
of Dante (N.
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Byron |
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It is to education in Hegel that we now turn in order to
understand
better the philosophical education that illusion commends.
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Education in Hegel |
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He made himself into an
accomplice
of bourgeois propaganda, since his work contributes to the dissemination of the myth of human nature.
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Sartre-Jean-Paul-What-is-literature¿-Introducing-Les-Temps-modernes-The-nationalization-of-literature-Black-orpheus |
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"
When the prophet, a
complacent
fat
man,
Arrived at the mountain-top,
He cried: "Woe to my knowledge!
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Stephen Crane - War is Kind |
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Ruler and priest, he neglects
his functions as such for love; half of his country is overrun by
the enemy; he goes as a minstrel slave to the court of another
ruler; gives this up, too, from an inner
dissatisfaction
and a
sense of the valuelessness of all activity.
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Stefan George - Studies |
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But no--I have rather
begotten
thee a second time.
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Childrens - Little Princes |
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gel
hinabstieg,
Die Wege des Walds, den
singenden
Schwarzvogel
Und die Freude des Gru?
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Trakl - Dichtungen |
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Hoc geri|tur
Zephy|rusprimum
Impel|lentibus | undas,
Umbrx i|bant tenu|es simul|acraque | luce ca|renttim.
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Latin - Bradley - Exercises in Latin Prosody |
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Imagination, when it has not memory for
a bridle, detracts from what we possess, em-
bellishes what we fear we shall not obtain,
and turns sentiment into a
conquered
diffi-
culty.
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Madame de Stael - Germany |
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"Every elevation of the type 'man,'" he writes in "Beyond Good and
Evil", "has hitherto been the work of an aristocratic society--and so
will it always be--a society believing in a long scale of
gradations
of
rank and differences of worth among human beings.
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Thus Spake Zarathustra- A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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This problem
deserves
special analysis.
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Propaganda - 1939 - Foreign Affairs - Will Hitler Save Democracy |
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But some further difficulty may well arise from this
decision
later.
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Turing - Can Machines Think |
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(Leonor and Page leave)
Just Heaven, whose help I need,
Put an end to the evil that possesses me,
Protect my
tranquillity
and my honour.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Then come Wilson's
fourteen
points!
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk -Critique of Cynical Reason |
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In his dra- matic coming out of himself before the eyes of
everyone
and no one, however, he burrowed through, turned around, pushed to the pinnacle, and brought to an end an entire system of values, an entire civilization, an entire era.
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Sloterdijk - Thinker on Stage |
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If I have a little knowledge of psychoanalysis, I can, under circumstances particularly favorable, try to
psychoanalyze
myself.
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Sartre - BeingAndNothingness - Chapter 2 - On Lying |
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”
"You will explain to
Zimmerman
that we have taken your
money from you.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v01 - A to Apu |
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=--In the ages of enlightenment justice was not
done to the
importance
of religion, of this there can be no doubt.
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Human, All Too Human- A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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OF GRACE
(BALLATA, FRAGMENT) ii
FPULL well thou knowest, song, what grace I mean,
E'en as thou know'st the
sunlight
I have lost.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Hanrieder Review by: Ernst Nolte
The
American
Political Science Review, Vol.
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Nolte - The Stable Crisis- Two Decades of German Foreign Policy |
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On his head a crown,
On his
shoulders
down
Flowed his golden hair.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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His record of the journey often contrasts the meagre contemporary state of civilisation in Greece, Turkey and the Holy Land with the richness of classical
antiquity
and the Christian past.
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Chateaubriand - Travels to Italy |
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"There is nothing," saith he,
"on earth, to be
compared
with him.
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Hobbes - Leviathan |
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Its action thus can be described
independently
of any particular agent or object as the "creator" of that force.
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Foucault-Key-Concepts |
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Robert Herrick - Lyric Poems |
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Gordon was now
definitely
though secretly drunk.
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Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
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και της μητρός μου πάλι ο νους διστάζει αν, σεβομένη
την κλίνη του συντρόφου της και την φωνή του κόσμου,
μ' εμέ θα μένη σπίτι μου και θα το κυβερνάη, 75
ή απ' τους μνηστήραις Αχαιούς ήδη θ' ακολουθήση
εκείνον, 'που 'ναι
ανώτερος
και πλήθια δίδει δώρα.
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Homer - Odyssey - Greek |
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When Alice next peeped out, the Fish-Footman was gone, and the other was
sitting on the ground near the door, staring
stupidly
up into the sky.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll |
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Catilina
especially
was one of the most wicked men in that wicked age.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.4. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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O blinde world, O blinde
entencioun!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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But the final cause of this high
spirit was the belief in things worth living for and worth dying
for—a belief which lies at the root of mighty actions, and without
which no nation has ever been great, and no
dramatic
hero heroic.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v05 |
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Of the whole wide atmosphere it does not
desire a single finger-breadth more than what is
necessary
for its sails
to turn round in.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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The idea of a play to be
performed
in a regular
theater by puppets excited the curiosity and talk of the town.
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Oliver Goldsmith |
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