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«Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not find ourselves in emptiness or in heaven, but on earth, in the realm of reality; we only see real things in the entrancing splendor of imagination and caprice, instead of in the simple daylight of reality and necessity.»
Author: Ludwig Feuerbach
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caprice, caprices, daylight, emptiness, entrancing, In Dreams, In the Realm, realm, splendor
«I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the continual repetition of the same words and the same gestures, night after night, and the caprices, the way of looking at life, and the entire rigmarole disgusted me.»
Author: Isadora Duncan
(Dancer)
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caprices, disgusted, gestures, nausea, repetition, rigmarole, theatre
«She had caprices of a marvelous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?»
«Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice? It is our true policy to st»
Author: George Washington
(President)
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caprice, caprices, entangle, entangling, European, interweave, interweaving, toils
«The convention miscalled 'modesty' has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anybody's whim - anybody's diseased caprice»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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artificiality, caprices, the Convention, whim
«Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
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attain, caprices, felicities, felicity, fortunate, heeded, heeds, satisfy
«The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should refuse all our serious requests, and gratify every one of our whims. He should encourage us to have caprices, and forbid us to have missions. He s»
«The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer»
«The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.»
«We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse of life, we are governed by whim, caprice, prejudice, or accident. The falling of a teacup puts us out of temper for the day; and a quarrel that commenced about the pattern of a gown may end only with our lives.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
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caprice, caprices, commenced, common interest, evening gown, gown, gowns, intercourse, pattern, self-will, self-willed, self interest, teacup, The Creatures, transaction, transactions, whim
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