Fair and tall
Those
warriors
were, and o'er them all
One king great-hearted,
Whom thou and thy false love did slay:
Therefore the tribes of Heaven one day
For these thy dead shall send on thee
An iron death: yea, men shall see
The white throat drawn, and blood's red spray,
And lips in terror parted.
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Euripides - Electra |
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It also often happens that the reductionist finds himself using the methods of other disciplines in order to
apprehend
his own subject matter.
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Waltz - Theory of International Relations |
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America-s-Deadliest-Export-Blum-William-pdf |
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So is the time that keeps you as my chest
Or as the wardrobe which the robe doth hide,
To make some special instant special-blest,
By new unfolding his
imprisoned
pride.
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Shakespeare |
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[305] Cumont has commented on the unique
features
of
Abonoteichus’ version of the worship of Aesculapius: the giving a
serpent a human head and calling it the god incarnate; the issuing of
oracles and advice instead of using incubation or dealing particularly
with healing.
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Elizabeth Haight - Essays on Greek Romances |
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But mark: infallibly a fixed bound
Remaineth stablished 'gainst their
breaking
down;
Since we behold each thing soever renewed,
And unto all, their seasons, after their kind,
Wherein they arrive the flower of their age.
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| Question: |
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Lucretius |
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Or doth God mock at me
And blast my vision with some mad
surmise?
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| Question: |
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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From the dull confines of the
drooping
West, II.
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| Question: |
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Robert Herrick |
|
Liberes, ils sont comme des chiens:
On les
insulte!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
[[Note that there is no actual
Wellington
Museum in Phoenix Park.
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| Answer: |
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A-Skeleton-Key-to-Finnegans-Wake |
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especially if he was to prove that he was a Greek scholar who had read his
Laertius
better than anyone else.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Thinker-on-Stage |
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"]
XXV
And so
Tattiana
was her name,
Nor by her sister's brilliancy
Nor by her beauty she became
The cynosure of every eye.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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(Byron's
paraphrase
in "Don Juan.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Universal Anthology - v03 |
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Napoleon
had commanded that once a week there should be held
something
called a Spontaneous Demonstration, the object of which was to
celebrate the struggles and triumphs of Animal Farm.
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Orwell - Animal Farm |
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ĐÀO TUẤN 陶 寯23
người
huyện Chương Đức phủ Ứng Thiên.
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stella-02 |
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I am a
minstrel
with a harp,
For love of her my songs are sweet,
And yet I dare not lift the voice
That lies so far beneath her feet.
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| Question: |
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Sara Teasdale - Helen of Troy |
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I moulded kings and saviors,
And bards o'er kings to rule;--
But fell the starry
influence
short,
The cup was never full.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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On one occasion when I was present he was asked, How many
thousand
books are there in the library?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
The Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates |
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49 (#69) ##############################################
THE
“IMPROVERS”
OF MANKIND
49
"
morality.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v16 - Twilight of the Idols |
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Fame, Nan justly does our
admiltation
claim :
Some pebpliB yet her Sex cou'd never scan,
Five!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons |
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This is how Gerard Petitjean, a journalist from Le Nouvel Observateur, described the atmosphere at Foucault's lectures in 1975:
When Foucault enters the amphitheater, brisk and dynamic like someone who plunges into the water, he steps over bodies to reach his chair, pushes away the
cassette
recorders so he can put down his papers, removes his jacket, lights a lamp and sets off at full speed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Foucault-Psychiatric-Power-1973-74 |
|
Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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[63] Now when these damsels were got to the
blossomy
meads, they waxed merry one over this flower, another over that.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Moschus |
|
)
người
xã Thái Bạt huyện Bất Bạt (nay thuộc xã Tòng Bạt huyện Ba Vì tỉnh Hà Tây).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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stella-01 |
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On one occasion, finding the Duke of Alba's coachman
asleep on the box, they painted the yellow coach red, so
altering
it
that the very owner failed to recognize it when he left the house where
he had been calling.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Jose de Espronceda |
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I have brought you
everything
needful
and much more into the bargain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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The
distinction
between international and national realms of politics is not found in the use or the nonuse of force but in their different structures.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waltz - Theory of International Relations |
|
This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books
discoverable
online.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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If you
do not charge
anything
for copies of this eBook, complying with the
rules is very easy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
(Vain were engine and wheel,
She was under full steam)--
With the roar of a thunder-stroke
Her two
thousand
tons of oak
Brought up on us, right abeam!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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14] Cicero to Caius Cassius,
proquaestor
of Syria
[Cilicia, late October, 51 B.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Cicero- Letters to and from Cassius |
|
Google requests that the images and OCR not be re-hosted,
redistributed
or used commercially.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Carey - Clavis Metrico-Virgiliana |
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"
And thou, red judge, if thou would say audibly
all thou hast done in thought, then would every
one cry: "Away with the
nastiness
and the virulent
reptile!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v11 - Thus Spake Zarathustra |
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He thinks of the loaves and fishes
even when he
believes
he is in a Real Presence.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dracula by Bram Stoker |
|
This
gentleman
had made sneering allusions to men of letters
who dabbled in diplomacy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Jose de Espronceda |
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13
OOT
27
28 16739
Help Thou my
Unbelief
(Poem), Moulton28 16819
Hemans, Felicia Dorothea,
12 7229
Henjö.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v30 - Guide to Systematic Readings |
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When there was a lot of meat he would not take
more than what
properly
went with the rice, only in matter
of wine was no blue nose (set no limit) but didn't get fuddled.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra Pound - Confucian Analects |
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But why, you will ask, do I send you old almanacs, which
are
proverbially
useless ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v14 - Ibn to Juv |
|
The
Translations
of La Place, and their effect on
Voltaire and French Criticism.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v05 |
|
Many of these actions and threats designed to pressure and intimidate would be nothing but noise, if it were
reliably
known that the situation could not get out of hand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Schelling - The Manipulation of Risk |
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For the first Plato
would do what can be done by
artificial
selection of parents; for the
second, he would depend upon music and gymnastics; for the third, upon
philosophy.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson |
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May not his orb, whenever thou desirest a fair day, be variegated when first his arrows strike the earth, and may he wear no mark at all but shine
stainless
altogether.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aratus - Phaenomena |
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No lofty crest I raise:
Wisdom that thought forbids,
Maecenas
mine,
The knightly order's praise.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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71 Be this ontology as it may, we can also see that this assumption is
sustained
by the failure of language to be mimetic.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The Public Work of Rhetoric_nodrm |
|
Fabié,
François
Joseph (fä-byā').
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 to v30 - Tur to Zor and Index |
|
And even here is the hand or eye or ear of the Duce, the
Debunker
par excellence, for the deputies and ministers know that there is an EDITORIAL eye and ear-precisely-an editor, who will see through their bunkum and for whom they will go to the scrap-basket just as quickly as an incompetent reporter's c.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pound-Jefferson-and-or-Mussolini |
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The message
continues to be expressed in abstract,
symbolic
terms--no
reference is made to concrete instances, no names are mentioned
to be held up to obloquy, no place is named.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Studies |
|
The crowds
restrained
their breath, waiting
for what would happen.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 to v25 - Rab to Tur |
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At the same time, he did his
best to
civilise
his people, and to bring them into con-'
nection with the Greek world.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Demosthenese - 1869 - Brodribb |
|
Never my book's
perfection
did appear
Till I had got the name of Villars here:
Now 'tis so full that when therein I look
I see a cloud of glory fills my book.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick - Hesperide and Noble Numbers |
|
And says
I; "Isn't it the laste little bit of a mistake in the world that ye've
been afther the making, yer
leddyship?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
ttingen, and the "wizard"
Steinmetz
at MIT.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kittler-Universities-Wet-Hard-Soft-And-Harder |
|
She told me, in a low clear voice, 'I am
suffering
from
heartburn, and I cannot, therefore, see you face to face; yet, if you
have anything important to say to me, I will listen to you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epiphanius Wilson - Japanese Literature |
|
Those who appreci- ated and loved la belle France with its savoir vivre and generos- ity were well advised, in the view of the
predominantly
pite- ous niveau of the 'nonistic' propaganda at the time, to spread a cloak of silence over these events.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk-Post-War |
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nunc uer egelidum, nunc est mollissimus annus,
dum Phoebus tener ac tenera decumbere in herba
suadet et arguto
fugientis
gramine fontis
nec rigidos potare iuuat nec sole tepentis.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
staggered more than he
walked, his
handkerchief
pressed over his mouth.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The Trial by Franz Kafka |
|
The races of
Merovingian
Gaul were not all under one law.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge Medieval History - v2 - Rise of the Saracens and Foundation of the Western Empire |
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Cruelty is here ex-
posed, for the first time, as one of the oldest and
most
indispensable
elements in the foundation of
culture.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v17 - Ecce Homo |
|
The policeman began by watching it over his shoulder, subsequently turning to face it and then coming closer; he
attended
as an obseiVer, like a protrud- ing offshoot of the iron machinery of the state, which ends in buttons and other metal trim.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Musil - Man Without Qualities - v1 |
|
11, 16,
(the year of the
consulship
of Caesar and Bibulus) | 18, 21, 23; Dion.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b |
|
They know perfectly well that never in the history of this country have they had less influence in
Washington
than since 1932, and they are not too certain that their influence there will increase appreciably in the forseeable future.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Propaganda - 1943 - New Collectivist Propaganda |
|
Yet there was not a breath of wind: she banish'd
These
phantoms
with a nod.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
The whole prophecie of Scotland, England and
some part of France and Denmark, prophesied bee
mervellous
Merling,
Beid, Bertlington, Thomas Rymour, Waldbave, Eltraine, Banester, and
Sibbilla, all according to one.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v04 |
|
In Anatomy and Astronomy he is said to have preceded
the
discoveries
of Harvey and Galileo.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarpi - 1888 - History of Fra Paolo Sarpi 2 |
|
She it is whose
brightness
both twinkles in the highest heaven and pierces the pit of hell, and is shed upon earth, warming our hearts far more than our bodies, fostering virtue and cauterizing vice.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mary and the Art of Prayer_Ave Maria |
|
De la male Sapho, l'amante et le poete,
Plus belle que Venus par ses mornes
paleurs!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 17:10 GMT / http://hdl.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poland - 1922 - Polish Literature in Translation, a Bibliography |
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There he made his home and taught rhetoric;
therefore
he is called a Rhodian.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Suda - Lives of the Hellenistic Poets |
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I opened the door; at sight of my face
the farmer was
reminded
of his peaceful intentions, and asked me if I
knew where the whiskey was.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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And in this manner the credit keeps circulating, performing, in every stage, the office of money, till it is
extinguished
by a discount with some person who has a payment to make to the bank, to an equal or greater amount.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Hamilton - 1790 - Report on a National Bank |
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2 Approaching old age, my
loneliness
in travel is extreme, 8 pained by these times, the chance to meet is remote.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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The Te Deum of Reims, commemorated in the
presence
of the Archbishop Franc?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk-Post-War |
|
It is not because he
satisfies
the
reason, but because he astounds it, that men abase themselves before the
Vicar of Christ.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Strachey - Eminent Victorians |
|
I see
nothing in it but your own wilful
ignorance
and the malice of Mr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Austen - Pride and Prejudice |
|
«Consider
separately
each of these [complaints), and how slight
are the grounds for war!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v14 - Ibn to Juv |
|
Reading, as Saint Augustine claims at the end of his discussion
of Genesis in the Confessions, becomes a form of prayer: "the
exercise
of that joyful charity which comes of at last finding God and seeks to
find him in his works.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Bourbon - "Twitterlitter" of Nonsense- "Askesis" at "Finnegans Wake" |
|
”
The happy girl
pretended
to move away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v09 - Dra to Eme |
|
Why stolest into
Thyself,
thyself?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v17 - Ecce Homo |
|
In the CAT model of brief therapy (Ryle 1990), this dilemma is met by the introduction of the 'farewell letter' which the
therapist
presents to the patient in the penultimate session.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Bowlby - Attachment |
|
The farce resorted to the Greek world only under the form of travestied tragedy;1 and this style appears to have been
cultivated
first by Novius, and not very frequently in any case.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.4. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
|
When confronted with the endless
discussion
on the
general subject of "brainwashing/' 1 am sometimes reminded of the Zen Buddhist maxim: "The more we talk about it, the less we understand it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lifton-Robert-Jay-Thought-Reform-and-the-Psychology-of-Totalism |
|
Neither was he
inclined
or sent for to pay his respects to the
duke.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stories from the Italian Poets |
|
The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating
charities and
charitable
donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
The lovely Corinne pre-
fers you, doubtless
believing
that you would prove more
faithful than I -- this may not be the case -- you may
even cost her more pains than I should have done; but
your very romantic women love trouble, therefore you will
suit her ex actly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Madame de Stael - Corinna, or Italy |
|
Rousseau
put Numa and Moses alongside the Spartan
Lycurgus.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Cult of the Nation in France |
|
418 References
Mann, Michael,
Giovanni
Arrighi, Jason W.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nitzan Bichler - 2012 - Capital as Power |
|
"
His fruitless words are lost unheard in air,
Ulysses seeks the ships, and
shelters
there.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
The bargaining can be polite or rude, entail threats as well as offers, assume a status quo or ignore all rights and privileges, and assume
mistrust
rather than trust.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Schelling - The Diplomacy of Violence |
|
In
meditative
equipoise the Exalted who are still learning do not perceive dependently arising phenomena as existent.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aryadeva - Four Hundred Verses |
|
In this contest was exerted the utmost power of
the two nations, and the Dutch were finally defeated, yet not with such
evidence of superiority, as left us much reason to boast our victory:
they were obliged, however, to solicit peace, which was granted them on
easy conditions; and Cromwell, who was now
possessed
of the supreme
power, was left at leisure to pursue other designs.
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Misled by the nationalist and racial slogans of Hitlerism and Fascism, many democratic statesmen long believed that the essential
conflict
was between German and Italian nationalism on the one side and Communism on the other.
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Propaganda - 1939 - Foreign Affairs - Will Hitler Save Democracy |
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He has an extraordinary
truthfulness
and delicacy of touch
in natural description.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v25 - Tas to Tur |
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I here place by way of
parallel
still another
equally obvious confirmation of my view that
opera is built up on the same principles as our v
Alexandrine culture.
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Nietzsche - v01 - Birth of Tragedy |
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" The little
^ ^
stranger
smiled,
" And who art ^Aou f " Whereto she made
reply,
" Theresa I of Jesus am, my child.
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Childrens - Child Verse |
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It is remark have
confounded
him with Pliny!
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c |
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to them (and without self-partiality, since to-day all this is so far
from us) that beneath this
lightness
of manner, amid her follies
and her vices, old France was none the less the people of love
and of grace.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v17 - Mai to Mom |
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He practices, with the greatest presence of mind, the art of winning away from the empowered word a meaning that was intended by the powers themselves; he is the master of the art of
subversion
through humor.
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Sloterdijk - Thinker on Stage |
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The writer of this version so far identifies himself
with Sir John as to add to the account of the sea of gravel and the
fish caught therein an
assertion
that he had eaten of them himself.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v02 |
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For him, the existence of radical evil is
accompanied
by the experience of the radical absence of meaning.
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The Totalitarian Mind - Fischbein |
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Avons-nous donc commis une action
étrange?
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Baudelaire - Les Epaves |
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