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«And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Where under crawling coop'd we live and die, Lift not your hands to It for help for it As impotently moves as you or I»
Author: Edward Fitzgerald
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bowl, co-op, coop, crawling, impotently, invert, inverted, live-and-die
«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
«Christianity exceeds all other faiths in its power to deform and finally invert the mental process»
Author: Ida White
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Christianity,
Faith
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deform, deforms, exceeds, faiths, invert, inverted, mental process, The Mental
«Frank Lloyd Wright's inverted oatmeal dish and silo with their awkward cantilevering, their jaundiced skin and the ingenious spiral ramp leading down past the abstractions which mirror the tortured maladjustments of our time.»
«There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are people who simply cannot take themselves seriously enough. I think I might be the first to admit that the sort of reticence which prevents a man from exploiting his own personality is really an inverted sort of egotism.»
Author: Raymond Chandler
(Writer)
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egotism, exploiting, First to, invert, inverted, prevents, reasonable, Reasonable man, reticence, reticences
«BLACKGUARD, n. A man whose qualities, prepared for display like a box of berries in a market --the fine ones on top --have been opened on the wrong side. An inverted gentleman.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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berries, berry, blackguard, blackguards, invert, inverted, Open market
«Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee; as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.»
«In a man's letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes within him is shown undisguised in its natural process. Nothing is inverted, nothing distorted, you see systems in their elements, you discover actions in their motives.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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invert, inverted, madam, madams, motives, natural action, natural process, systems, The Mirror, undisguised
«Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.»
«O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!»
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