#essence

The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero. ↗

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What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface. ↗

— Constantin Brancusi

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In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness. ↗

— Norman O. Brown

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It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life. ↗

— Julius Caesar

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She represented the distilled essence of the battle between the sexes. ↗

— Anne Edwards

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Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object. ↗

— Henry Fuseli

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I love spring flowers: daffodils and hyacinths are the ultimate flower for me. They are the essence of spring. ↗