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«If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.»
Author: Loren Eiseley
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contained
«The journey is difficult, immense. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know.»
«It was the failures who had always won, but by the time they won they had come to be called successes. This is the final paradox, which men call evolution.»
Author: Loren Eiseley
«It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.»
Author: Loren Eiseley
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Art
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as it is, frequently, frightens, ordinary, scientist, tragedy
«One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.»
«I am not nearly so interested in what monkey man was derived from as I am in what kind of monkey he is to become.»
«One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.»
«Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.»
«Many of us who walk to and fro upon our usual tasks are prisoners drawing mental maps of escape»
Author: Loren Eiseley
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Escapism
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drawing, Fro, prisoners, to and fro, usual, walk-to
«Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.»
Author: Loren Eiseley
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