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metamorphoses
«My dearest colleagues seem to become metamorphosed into snarling beasts if I as much as glance at them, even if my glance is a complimentary one.»
Author: Harry Ellis Dickson
| Keywords:
complimentary, dearest, metamorphoses, snarl, snarling, snarls
«Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).»
Author: Harold Rosenberg
| Keywords:
agitator, Agitators, arrested, continued, costume, costumes, engaged, ideology, in the United States, jargon, jargon of, metamorphoses, metamorphosis, publicly, successes, tends, tends to, transformation, visibility, vitality
«The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come to a halt and accept themselves as they are. Those who fail become resigned and accept themselves as they are.»
«Shadow boxes become poetic theaters or settings wherein are metamorphosed the element of a childhood pastime.»
Author: Joseph Cornell
| Keywords:
boxes, metamorphoses, pastime, poetic, settings, theaters, wherein
«The butterfly's attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them so beautiful if they did not fly, or if they flew straight and briskly like bees, or if they stung, or above all if they did not enact the perturbing mystery of metamorphosis: the latter assumes in our eyes the value of a badly decoded message, a symbol, a sign.»
Author: Primo Levi
(Author, Chemist, Writer)
| Keywords:
assumes, attractiveness, bees, briskly, butterfly, contribute, decode, decodes, derives, enact, enacted, enacting, flew, metamorphoses, metamorphosis, motives, perturbed, perturbing, perturbs, stung, symmetry
«A man, who is constantly engaged in action and works hard until he has achieved his goal undergoes lots of metamorphosis and positive change which helps in his self improvement. »
Author: Sam Veda
| Keywords:
engaged, improvement, lots, metamorphoses, metamorphosis, self help, self improvement, undergoes
«The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo, the more he can remember the more divine his life becomes.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
Divine, metamorphoses, metamorphosis, number, undergo, undergone, underwent
«Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had been , what people needed protection from. Now nature tamed, endangered, mortal , needs to be protected from people.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| Keywords:
cameras, ceased, earnest, ecology, endangered, metamorphoses, protected, safari, tamed
«The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui, vanish, - all duties even»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Affection
| Keywords:
affections, duties, ennui, indulge, metamorphoses, tragedies, vanish, winter
«For if in any manner we can stimulate this instinct, new passages are opened for us into nature, the mind flows into and through things hardest and highest, and the metamorphosis is possible»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
flows, metamorphoses, metamorphosis, passages, stimulate
