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#objects

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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.


Denis Diderot


#endowed #feeling #frequently #instruments #many

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.


George Eliot


#bear #jealousy #lose #love #more

There has been a great gulf in psychological thought between the perception of space and objects on one hand and the perception of meaning on the other.


James J. Gibson


#between #great #gulf #hand #meaning

The Shakespeare that Shakespeare became is the name that's attached to these astonishing objects that he left behind.


Stephen Greenblatt


#attached #became #behind #left #name

We have persistant objects, they're called files.


Ken Thompson


#files #objects

Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.


Elie Wiesel


#beings #deeds #desires #follow #ideas

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.


E. M. Forster


#believe #i #i do #in my opinion #internal

Arles is certainly one of the most interesting towns I have ever seen, whether viewed as a place remarkable for the objects of antiquity it contains, or for the primitive manners of its inhabitants and its picturesque appearance.


Marguerite Gardiner


#appearance #certainly #contains #ever #i

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.


Thomas Jefferson


#america #continue #european #interferences #objects

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.


Samuel Johnson


#away #before #breaking #felicity #flights






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