#enclosed

A mind enclosed in language is in prison. ↗

— Simone Weil

#language #mind #prison

I sat with him for three hours and we did not exchange a single word. At the end he handed me, as he had done before, an envelope with money in it. It would have been much nicer if he had enclosed a greeting or a loving word. I would have been so pleased if he had. ↗

— Eva Braun

#before #did #done #enclosed #end

As to judging our own time, and thereby gaining some basis for a judgment of future possibilities, we are doubtless not only too close to it to appraise it but too much formed by it and enclosed within it to do so. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#basis #close #doubtless #enclosed #formed

We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#bounded #certainty #earth #enclosed #poles

What we call barbecuing in this country is actually direct grilling. In many countries, it also means cooking in an enclosed box with a heat source, ideally wood, all year round. ↗

— Jamie Oliver

#also #box #call #cooking #countries

One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine. I only know if once mine gets out, I'll have a bit of a tussle before I let it get in again to that of any other. ↗

— Lord Byron

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