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«The hero is valorous because he stands up to every threat directed against his values. Heroism requires value conflict.»
«Sometimes what we call love is just a settling of old scores, or a seeking of forbidden pain, or a circuitous path to the kingdom of cruelty, or she may simply have confused lack of capital with heroism while searching for rescue without knowing from what.»
Author: Anne Roiphe
(Writer)
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circuitous, forbidden, heroism, know the score, rescue, scores, searching, The Kingdom
«The poetry of heroism appeals irresitably to those who don't go to a war, and even more so to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy»
Author: Louis Ferdinand Celine
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Heroism,
War
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appeals, enormously, heroism, The War, wealthy
«The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden. Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; law, social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its monstrous flowers and its hideous instruments of eternal human suffering.»
Author: Octave Mirbeau
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heroism, hideous, immense, inexorable, instruments, instrument of torture, monstrous, social justice
«There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.»
«The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule»
Author: Miguel de Unamuno
(Author, Philosopher)
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Heroism
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attain, a people, height, heroism, ridicule
«The greatest obstacle to being heroic is to doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is, to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when to be obeyed.»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
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heroic, heroism, obeyed, obstacle, profoundest, resisted, truest
«There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.»
Author: John Keats
(Poet)
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An electric, continually, electric, electric fire, heroism, pearl, purifies, purify, rubbish, tending
«The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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abide, abide by, by fits and starts, fits, generosity, genuine, heroic, heroism, impulses, persistency, reconcile, resolved, wandering, weakly
«There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.»
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