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«So-called art restoration is at least as tricky as brain surgery. Most pictures expire under scalpel and sponge.»
Author: Alexander Eliot
| About:
Art
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brain surgery, expire, expires, expiring, restoration, scalpel, sponge, Sponges, surgery, The Restoration, tricky
«Expiring for love is beautiful but stupid.»
«I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.»
«I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more /the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort /to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires /and expires, too soon, too soon /before life itself.»
Author: Joseph Conrad
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«He's not pining, he's passed on. This parrot is no more. He has ceased to be. He's expired and gone to meet his maker. He's a stiff, bereft of life, he rests in peace. If you hadn't have nailed him to the perch he'd be pushing up the daisies. He's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-parrot!»
Author: Monty Python
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«FUNERAL, n. A pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears.The savage dies --they sacrifice a horse To bear to happy hunting-grounds the corse. Our friends expire --we make the money fly In hope their souls will chase it to the sky. --Jex Wopley»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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attest, attested, Corse, Dead Horse, deepening, deepens, doubles, enriching, expire, flying horse, hunting ground, pageant, pageants, respect for the dead, strengthen, The Undertaker
«RIMER, n. A poet regarded with indifference or disesteem.The rimer quenches his unheeded fires, The sound surceases and the sense expires. Then the domestic dog, to east and west, Expounds the passions burning in his breast. The rising moon o'er that enchanted land Pauses to hear and yearns to understand. --Mowbray Myles»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment withoutwhich it instantly expires. But it could not be less folly toabolish liberty, which is essential to political life, becauseit nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilationof air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts tofire its destructive agency.»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| About:
Liberty
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abolish, agency, aliment, annihilation, destructive, expire, expires, expiring, faction, factions, folly, imparting, imparts, instantly, nourishes, political liberty, The Agency
«Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.»
«I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-Second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade: Waves of anger and fear Circulate over the bright And darkened lands of the earth, Obsessing our private lives; The unmentiona»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
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Anger
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circulate, circulating, darkened, decade, dives, expire, expires, Obsessing, Private Lives
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