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«Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos, two hours later your fingers are yellow and you're no longer hungry, but you haven't been nourished.»
«Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words.»
Author: Italo Calvino
(Essayist, Journalist, Writer)
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as yet, buried, enable, myth, nourished, region, unexplored
«Long ago the country bore the country-town and nourished it with her best blood. Now the giant city sucks the country dry, insatiably and incessantly demanding and devouring fresh streams of men, till it wearies and dies in the midst of an almost uninhabited waste of country.»
Author: Oswald Spengler
(Philosopher)
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demanding, devouring, incessantly, insatiably, long ago, nourished, streams, sucks, The Giant, uninhabited, wearies
«Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel, / And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.»
«Living creatures are nourished by food, and food is nourished by rain; rain itself is the water of life, which comes from selfless worship and service.»
«Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans -which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambezi.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
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hedgerow, hedgerows, instructed, linger, nourished, palms, The Theatre, tropics, vagrancy, Zambezi
«The land that had nourished him and had borne him fruit now turned against him and called him a fruit. Man, I hate land like that.»
«I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
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Catholic, degraded, European, European civilization, Greek, nourished, renounce
«Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged a fire sparkling in lovers eyes, being vexed a sea nourished with lovers tears, What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall and a perserving sweet.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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Love
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chokes, choke up, choking, discreet, fire, fume, fumes, gall, galling, lovers, madness, nourished, purged, purges, purging, sea, sea a, sighs, smoke, smokes, smoke out, sparkle, sparkled, sparkles, sparkling, sweet, vexed, vexes, vexing
«There are in our existence spots of timeThat with distinct pre-eminence retainA renovating virtue, whence . . . our mindsAre nourished and invisibly repaired.»
Author: William Wordsworth
(Poet)
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eminence, invisibly, nourished, renovate, renovating, repaired, retain, spots
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