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«To hide a passion totally (or even to hide, more simply, its excess) is inconceivable: not because the human subject is too weak, but because passion is in essence made to be seen: the hiding must be seen: I want you to know that I am hiding something from you, that is the active paradox I must resolve: at one and the same time it must be known and not known: I want you to know that I don't want to show my feelings: that is the message I address to the other.»
Author: Roland Barthes
(Critic)
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active, address, excess, hiding, inconceivable, in essence, I Want You, message, one and the same, paradox, resolve, The Message, totally
«The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty and so is the Christian.»
Author: William Gurnall
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active, soldier, summoned, summoning, The Christian, The Soldier
«We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.»
Author: Les Brown
(Author, Entrepreneur, motivational speaker)
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active, charge, design, destinies, living substance, look for, of our own, substance, substances, take charge
«With the affairs of active human beings it is different. Here knowledge of truth alone does not suffice; on the contrary this knowledge must continually be renewed by ceaseless effort, if it is not to be lost. It resembles a statue of marble which st»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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active, affairs, AT ST, ceaseless, continually, contrary, on the contrary, renewed, resembles, suffice, sufficed, suffices
«True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
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active, agriculture, arduous, contentment
«When the eye or the imagination is struck with an uncommon work, the next transition of an active mind is to the means by which it was performed»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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active, performed, struck, transition, transitions, uncommon
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