The enemies, after that they were awaked, seeing on one side the fire in
the camp, and on the other the
inundation
of the urinal deluge, could not
tell what to say nor what to think.
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Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais |
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And he
delighted
in
the desire of his mighty father's heart who rules powerfully over men.
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Hesiod |
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” But the way of enlivening the
relationship
was everywhere to stress
the fact that the Oriental lived in a different but thoroughly organized world of his own, a world
with its own national, cultural, and epistemological boundaries and principles of internal
coherence.
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Said - Orientalism - Chapter 01 |
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I make it all facile, the rare and the earned;
Here’s
something
like gold (I create it from dirt)
And something like scent, sap, and spices –
And what the great prophet himself never dared:
The art without sowing to reap out of air
The powers still lying fallow.
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Stefan George - The Anti-Christ |
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And its
unbounded
licence continue ?
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v1 |
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Pdrigti-l-busque premunt arctis et
quattuck
addiint
( parjetibus, or par-yetlbus.
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Latin - Carey - Clavis Metrico-Virgiliana |
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And he -- he
followed
close behind;
I felt his silver heel
Upon my ankle, -- then my shoes
Would overflow with pearl.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Ere long the priest of Hippo had a foretaste of the
difficulties
which
awaited him as bishop.
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Bertrand - Saint Augustin |
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"
The voluptuous Cleopatra-Culture throws ever again
the most
priceless
pearls, the tears of compassion for
the misery of slaves, into her golden goblet.
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Nietzsche - v02 - Early Greek Philosophy |
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Protect your vows and sacred commitments without the slightest degeneration and remain
untainted
by any faults or downfalls.
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Dudjom-Rinpoche-Mountain-Retreat-Ver5 |
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12'1]
4 In the expedition against Sicily, Alcibiades landed at Corcyra, and because his army was numerous, he divided it into three parts, so that
supplies
could be provided more easily.
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Polyaenus - Strategems |
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” But the way of enlivening the
relationship
was everywhere to stress
the fact that the Oriental lived in a different but thoroughly organized world of his own, a world
with its own national, cultural, and epistemological boundaries and principles of internal
coherence.
| Guess: |
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Said - Orientalism - Chapter 01 |
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77
Tho' to the white waves dawn gives me, to Tethys,
again ; 70
(Maid of Ramnus, a grace I here implore thee, if any
Word should offend ; so much cannot a terror alarm,
I should veil aught true; not tho' with clamorous uproar
Rend me the stars; I speak
verities
hidden at heart):
Lightly for all I reck, so more I sorrow to part me 75
Sadly from her I serve, part me forever away.
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Catullus - Ellis - Poems and Fragments |
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221] Jonson tries
to
introduce
the substantive _migniardise_, but happily without
success.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Fear of garuda birds
constantly
plagues them.
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Kalu-Rinpoche-Foundation-of-Buddhist-Meditation |
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What leagues are lost before the dawn of day,
Thus
loitering
pensive on the willing seas,
The flapping sails hauled down to halt for logs like these!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Long time her young imagination
By indolence and languor fired
The fated nutriment desired;
And long internal agitation
Had filled her
youthful
breast with gloom,
She waited for--I don't know whom!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Then suddenly as he fixed the miserable rags round himself
a feeling of pity for his ruined body
overcame
him.
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Orwell - 1984 |
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But politics, and policy, and piety,
Are topics which I sometimes introduce,
Not only for the sake of their variety,
But as
subservient
to a moral use;
Because my business is to dress society,
And stuff with sage that very verdant goose.
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Bryon - Don Juan |
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When such
instructions
were laid down, they were to be carried out to the letter.
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The Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates |
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n social que reciben los hombres para ser triunfadores y dominantes ha disminuido, estos cambios han venido
acompan?
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| Question: |
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Hans-Ulrich-Gumbrecht |
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The very tread of men
As great as those is
shattering
to the frame
Of such a little house.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Frost - A Mountain Interval |
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My mind was
frightened
by this strange result: I doubted my reason.
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Proudhon - What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government |
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The Lion
Wild Animals
'Wild Animals'
Caspar Luyken,
Christoph
Weigel, 1695 - 1705, The Rijksmuseun
O lion, miserable image
Of kings lamentably chosen,
Now you're only born in a cage
In Hamburg, among the Germans.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
A more subtle, if less
attractively
simple, model of stress, vulnerability and buffering is required.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Bowlby - Attachment |
|
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electronic work or group of works on
different
terms than are set
forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from
both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael
Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark.
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| Question: |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
LXXX
Eustatio
first, who scantly could forbear,
Till friendly night might hide his haste and shame,
He rode in post, and let his breast him bear
As his blind fancy would his journey frame,
All night he wandered and he wist not where;
But with the morning he espied the dame,
That with her guard up from a village rode
Where she and they that night had made abode.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Tasso - Jerusalem Delivered |
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He
confessed
the
lawless fires of his youth, as great (he said) as those of Dido or
Hercules; but added, that he had no recollection of them, except a
joyous one, not for the fault (which does not come to mind in heaven),
but for the good which heaven brings out of it.
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| Source: |
Stories from the Italian Poets |
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But now for her brother
my
deliverer!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
|
They originally
appeared
in a poetical form.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
" How can we explain the number I, if this
indication
refers to Book II?
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| Question: |
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Hadot - The Inner Citadel The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius |
|
I
found him very
intelligent
on the topics we touched; and before I went
home, I was encouraged so far as to volunteer another visit to-morrow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë |
|
, Indian
Buddhism
(Delhi: Banarsidass, 1970).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Richard-Sherburne-A-Lamp-for-the-Path-and-Commentary-of-Atisha |
|
[TO APHRODITE]
Gentle Dame of Cyprus, be’st thou child of Zeus, or child of the sea, pray tell me why wast so unkind alike unto Gods and men – nay, I’ll say more, why so hateful unto thyself, as to bring forth so great and universal a
mischief
as this Love, so cruel, so heartless, so all unlike in ways and looks?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Bion |
|
¿No sentís la lanza estremecerse,
Hambrienta
en vuestras manos de matar?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Jose de Espronceda |
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Nous la trouvâmes
immobile, perchée à mi-hauteur de sa tour et n'en bougeant plus, nous
montrant avec exactitude le chiffre que nous lui avions
demandé
et que
toutes les réflexions qu'ait pu faire sur soi-même l'âme de ma
grand'mère eussent été bien incapables de lui fournir: 38°3.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Le Côté de Guermantes - Deuxième partie - v1 |
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I heard a thousand blended notes,
While in a grove I sate reclined,
In that sweet mood when
pleasant
thoughts
Bring sad thoughts to the mind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
From
Amsterdam
he
sailed to England, and he always declared, that he
had learned more during his visit to this country,
than any where else.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Childrens - Little Princes |
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) and, sure, he was only funning with his andrewmartins and his old age coming over him, well, he
attempted
or, the Connachy, he was tempted to attempt some hunnish familiarities, after eten a bad carmp in the rude ocean and, hevantonoze sure, he was dead seasickabed (it was really too bad!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Finnegans |
|
The loss of three
warriors
of such renown soon began to be felt by the nobles of Ulster, who no longer found themselves able to make head with their accustomed success against the southern provinces.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Universal Anthology - v05 |
|
You say you'd like to hear me
The stirring story tell
Of those who stood the battle
And those who
fighting
fell.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
War's parent, mighty, of
majestic
frame, deceitful saviour, liberating dame.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Orphic Hymns |
|
In some
countries
they
fabricated serges, which were in great repute, and cloths or felts;[90]
in others they worked the mines with skill, and employed themselves in
the fabrication of metals.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - b |
|
We
shall be at
Newcastle
all the winter, and I dare say there will be some
balls, and I will take care to get good partners for them all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Austen - Pride and Prejudice |
|
It would appear that after all of this, we are not condemned to free- dom, but to a
clarification
of our illusions from the purview of our dreams of freedom.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Art of Philosophy |
|
Very well, Professor Pearson replied, if the relations between parent
and child are so intimate that they lead to infection, they are
certainly not less intimate between husband and wife, and there ought to
be just as much
infection
in this relationship as in the former.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Applied Eugenics by Roswell H. Johnson and Paul Popenoe |
|
Let us not forget that even for the Russian revolutionaries in exile dur- ing the regime of the czar, the publication and secret distribution of their newspapers—in particular the ominous
Iskar—made
up most of their activities.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Rage and Time |
|
= Why in case you
beléeue
not mee, take the Glasse, & beléeue your
owne eyes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Erasmus |
|
, published in 1863, and developed from this association ofideas the 19th century's most
powerful
vision of a critique of civilization.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk-A-Crystal-Palace |
|
homines religiosi:
religious
men.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v18 - Epilogue, Index |
|
--In picture light is
required
no less than shadow; so
in style, height as well as humbleness.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
|
Je crois qu'il n'y en a qu'une qui la connaisse et
que les autres l'avaient seulement
accompagnée
jusqu'à la porte.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - a |
|
11 See Finck for a
discussion
of Trakl based on this remark by Rilke, 115-25.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Trakl - Falling to the Stars- Georg Trakl’s “In Venedig” in Light of Venice Poems by Nietzsche and Rilke |
|
Simply seeing or
smelling
the food would be enough to make them feel ill.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dudjom-Rinpoche-Mountain-Retreat-Ver5 |
|
Of course, the complete absurdity and rottenness of "realized" socialism was apparent, but as long as the rotten and absurd complex
continued
to exist, the simple "that" of its existence provided a reason to believe that a nonperverse realization of its justified motivations would be possible.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk-Rage |
|
what a
delightful
room this is!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Austen - Sense and Sensibility |
|
Marya, who was working in the same room, all at once
informed
my
parents that she was obliged to start for Petersburg, and begged them to
give her the means to do so.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
Yet none of them were
ever able to
influence
that People, and incline them to enter
into your AlHance.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Demosthenes - Orations - v2 |
|
] -
Phaedrus
of Pharsalus, stadion race
57th [552 B.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eusebius - Chronicles |
|
The stubborn- ness with which this stereotypical thought survives would be as puz- zling as its emotional rootedness if it were not fed by motives that are stronger than the painful recollection of how much cultivation is miss- ing from a culture that
historically
scarcely recognizes the homme de lettres.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adorno-The Essay As Form |
|
Time, duration, impermanence, are relative to the
existence
of empty things.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aryadeva - Four Hundred Verses |
|
Lady, I shall have much honour
If ever the privilege is granted
Of
clasping
you beneath the cover,
Holding you naked as I've wanted;
For you are worth the hundred best,
And I'm not exaggerating either.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
Nietzsche violates the rules of his profession with his brightly
checkered
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Peter-Sloterdijk-Thinker-on-Stage |
|
l2S
Using a propaganda model, we would not only anticipate
definitions
of worth based on utility.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Manufacturing Consent - Chomsky |
|
It moved me by your grief to give myself
Into the pleasure of its
ravenous
love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
We can establish a
threefold
determination in considering the
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-1-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
|
That you have need of
revenues
and of men to raise
them, and that it behoves Your Majesty to choose
them well.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
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Mais en même temps je n'avais cessé en écrivant
de pleurer; d'abord un peu de la même manière que le jour où j'avais
joué la fausse séparation, parce que ces mots me
représentant
l'idée
qu'ils m'exprimaient quoiqu'ils tendissent à un but contraire
(prononcés mensongèrement pour ne pas, par fierté, avouer que
j'aimais), ils portaient en eux leur tristesse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - b |
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God knows if it can be found still
scattered
in England.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-World-War-II-Broadcasts |
|
Such descriptions too
often
occasion
in the mind of a reader, who is determined to understand
his author, a feeling of labour, not very dissimilar to that, with
which he would construct a diagram, line by line, for a long geometrical
proposition.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Biographia Literaria |
|
There she stood
About a young bird's flutter from a wood,
Fair, on a sloping green of mossy tread,
By a clear pool, wherein she passioned
To see herself escap'd from so sore ills,
While her robes
flaunted
with the daffodils.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must
have been
senseless
for a long time.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
|
As regards matters connected with eating
and drinking, of course she was
extremely
well educated when she came,
and this seems to me the chief education, whether for a man or a woman.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson |
|
1
In his less-known Everlasting Man (1926), Chesterton conducts a wonderful mental
experiment
along these lines, in imagining the monster that man might have seemed at first to the merely natu- ral animals around him:
The simplest truth about manisthatheisavery strange being; almost in the sense of being a stranger on the earth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hegel - Zizek - With Hegel Beyond He |
|
Readers are
referred
to Mr Grosart's 'Introduction.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick - Lyric Poems |
|
These lands should belong to them for ever; the part confiscated
should be divided into lots of thirty _jugera_ and farmed hereditarily,
either to Roman citizens, or to Italiote auxiliaries, on
condition
of a
small rent to the treasury, and with an express prohibition to alienate.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - a |
|
But, when the saint arrived, all its gates were
miraculously
opened, and even the door of that very prison, in which Cormac had been confined ; the chains also fell from the captive's limbs, to the great alarm of his guards.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v2 |
|
+ Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are
responsible
for ensuring that what you are doing is legal.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Childrens - Longfellow - Child's Hour |
|
Your Committee find that the late Lord Clive constantly
asserted
that the salt trade in Bengal had
been a monopoly time immemorial, -- that it ever
was and ever must be a monopoly, -and that Coja
Wazid, and other merchants long before him, had
given to the Nabob and his ministers two hundred
thousand pounds per annum for the exclusive privilege.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edmund Burke |
|
The success
of superior men, and it is a
consoling
thought, is due rather to the
loftiness of their sentiments than to the speculations of selfishness
and cunning; this success depends much more on their skill in taking
advantage of circumstances, than on that presumption, blind enough to
believe itself capable of creating events, which are in the hands of God
alone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - a |
|
) Cicero use at that time at Athens, on account of the great
says of his administration, “ Atheniensium rem
expenses
involved in it; and in order to afford the
publicam exsanguem.
| 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 - a |
|
rdzogs), the state of the
primordial
Buddha Samantabhadra, and one will be liberated in the state
of primordial purity.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Jig-Me-Lingpa-The-Dzogchen-Innermost-Essence-Preliminary-Practice |
|
"
--And so the
conversation
slips
Among velleities and carefully caught regrets
Through attenuated tones of violins
Mingled with remote cornets
And begins.
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Eliot - Prufrock and Other Observations |
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» Ils savaient surtout
que cela leur donnerait moins de peine que de faire
pénétrer
lesdits
amis chez les nièces ou belles-soeurs élégantes de ces dames.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Le Côté de Guermantes - Deuxième partie - v1 |
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Let him raise his eyes to his own
dignity, and to law; let him not lower them to
necessity
and
fortune.
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For upon
the highest corner of a large window, there dwelt a certain spider,
swollen up to the first magnitude by the destruction of infinite numbers
of flies, whose spoils lay
scattered
before the gates of his palace, like
human bones before the cave of some giant.
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Swift - Battle of the Books, and Others |
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The second day, called Choes (Jugs), was a day of revelry and
feasting
even for slaves.
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)
người
xã Khê Tang huyện Thanh Oai (nay thuộc xã Cự Khê huyện Thanh Oai tỉnh Hà Tây).
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" —
" In hell, to burn such
wretches
as regard not the glad tidings of the gospel.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons |
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"I have no rest, nor joy, nor peace,
"For people die and die";
And after cried he, "God
forgive!
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Yeats - Poems |
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2 The inert body of the signifier is
animated
by the intention of the signified, so to speak.
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Sloterdijk - Derrida, an Egyptian |
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Leisurely
flocks and herds,
Cool-eyed cattle that come
Mildly to wonted words,
Swine that in orchards roam,--
A man and his beasts make a man and his home.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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In 1691, he was
appointed
city
poet, and, in that capacity, produced the annual pageant on lord
mayor's day, of which the official printed record for several years
is extant.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v08 |
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It was just the
plan to suit Fanny; and with a great deal of gratitude on her side for
such ready and kind attention, they
proceeded
indoors, and upstairs, and
were soon deep in the interesting subject.
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Austen - Mansfield Park |
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A flag, a bullet, a military hat; Duke Wellington on his big white horse; three
soldiers
crouch- ing in a ditch; a pair of Napoleon's jinnies,* making believe to read a book of strategy; and a sex-caliber telescope through which the Duke trains on the flanks of the jinnies.
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A-Skeleton-Key-to-Finnegans-Wake |
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beseech you then, that six angels, which such one hath mine, may
delivered
unto my brother pay my debts.
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Complete Collection of State Trials for Treason - v01 |
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If the passion of their partisans is any indication, translators are a
competitive
lot.
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Trakl - Bringing Blood to Trakl’s Ghost |
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His left hand all open he lifted up
into the air, then instantly shut into his fist the four fingers thereof,
and his thumb
extended
at length he placed upon the gristle of his nose.
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Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais |
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So, too, by the previous signs thou canst
forecast
the winds or storm or rain to come on the self-same day or on the morrow or it may be on the third morn.
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Aratus - Phaenomena |
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The
background
for this latter shift is illustrated in Figure 17.
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Nitzan Bichler - 2012 - Capital as Power |
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