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“But my hand was too small to do the gathering. [Epic of Gilgamesh, p. 79]”
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“...our moral and practical attitude....impulses, inhibitions.... how it contains and moulds us by its restrictive pressure almost as if we were fluids pent with the cavity of a jar.... It becomes our subconscious. [p. 287]”
― The Varieties of Religious Experience
― The Varieties of Religious Experience
“Don't look at me in that tone of voice.”
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“Trapped inside a metaphor, I've often felt the need to re-describe it, to change the terms. This isn't so much a balloon, I've wanted to say, as a bubble within which I'm simultaneously exposed and sealed off.... depriving me of reality, reducing me to an abstraction....
[NY, Dec. 1991; Columbia Graduate School Of Journalism Speech]”
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[NY, Dec. 1991; Columbia Graduate School Of Journalism Speech]”
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“Man cannot remain with no way out.”
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