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peculiar abnormal normal-and-abnormal
I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal. Louise Brown
peculiar year
This is a very peculiar year for flu. Greg Moore
peculiar
It's very peculiar that he isn't ... We're investigating to find out why.
peculiar literature mankind
It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
peculiar literature triumph
In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the domain of thought. Lytton Strachey
peculiar form
Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
peculiar harmony invention
The sign for which I forge an image has no value if it doesn't harmonize with other signs, which I must determine in the course of my invention and which are completely peculiar to it. Henri Matisse
peculiar providence form
Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms. [Ger., Die Gaben Kommen von oben herab, in ihren eignen Gestalten.]
peculiar life-is
One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it. Djuna Barnes
literature spirit humans
How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend? Wallace Stevens
literature terrible grows
As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
literature littles
Literature tells very little to those who understand it. Walter Benjamin
literature great-work genre
All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one.
literature records discontent
literature is the record of our discontent. Virginia Woolf
literature statements
That complete statement which is literature.
literature rooms essays
There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.
literature antagonist felt
And again she felt alone in the presence of her old antagonist, life.
literature painting problem
To a large extent, the problems of poets are the problems of painters, and poets must often turn to the literature of painting for a discussion of their own problems.
mankind betterment fairs
Unfortunately for the betterment of mankind it is not always the fair-minded who are in the right. Saul Bellow
mankind patents producing stand
Patents will not stand in the way of producing the drug for mankind.
mankind misunderstanding
The history of mankind is the history of our misunderstandings with god, for he doesn't understand us, and we don't understand him. Jose Saramago
mankind curse possession
Property monopolized or in the possession of a few is a curse to mankind. John Adams
mankind draws
You draw closer to truth by shutting yourself off from mankind. Elias Canetti
mankind consolation solemn
The act of naming is the great and solemn consolation of mankind
mankind subjects
The subject of history is the life of peoples and mankind. Leo Tolstoy
mankind ifs
If you can't love crudeness, how can you truly love mankind? John Irving
mankind
To govern mankind, one must not overrate them. Lord Chesterfield