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«I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the word begin to move around. Stressed accents begin to invert. The word abandons its meaning like an overload which is too heavy and prevents dreaming. Then words take on other meanings as if they had the right to be young. And the words wander away, looking in the nooks and crannies of vocabulary for new company, bad company.»
Author: Gaston Bachelard
(Philosopher, Poet)
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abandons, accents, Bad Company, crannies, cranny, dreamer, invert, inverted, meanings, move around, nook, nooks, nooks and crannies, overload, overloaded, prevents, stressed, syllables, wander
«I am against bigness and greatness in all their forms, and with the invisible molecular forces that work from individual to individual, stealing in through the crannies of the world like so many soft rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, and yet rending the hardest monuments of man's pride, if you give them time. The bigger the unit you deal with, the hollower, the more brutal, the more mendacious is the life displayed.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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crannies, cranny, done with, like so, The C
«For 'tis a truth well known to most, That whatsoever thing is lost We seek it, ere it come to light, In every cranny but the right»
Author: William Cowper
(Poet)
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