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«When something does not insist on being noticed, when we aren't grabbed by the collar or struck on the skull by a presence or an event, we take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude»
«When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature who was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning.»
«We regard the photograph, the picture on our wall, as the object itself (the man, landscape, and so on) depicted there. This need not have been so. We could easily imagine people who did not have this relation to such pictures. Who, for example, would be repelled by photographs, because a face without color and even perhaps a face in reduced proportions struck them as inhuman.»
Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein
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and so on, depict, depicted, depicting, depicts, for example, inhuman, landscape, proportions, reduced, relation to, repel, repelled, repelling, repels, struck
«We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.»
«When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.»
«We artists! We moon-struck and God-struck ones! We death-silent, untiring wanderers on heights which we do not see as heights, but as our plains, as our places of safety!»
«The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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At The Gates, Gates, opportunities, strike out, stringing, strings, struck, tension, tensions
«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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