Quotes with confines

  • Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well.
  • The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.

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  • Italo Calvino The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.
    Italo Calvino
    Italian writer (1923 - 1985)
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  • Elbert Hubbard Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • William Shakespeare Now, neighbor confines, purge you of your scum! Have you a ruffian that will swear, drink, dance, revel the night, rob, murder, and commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways?
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • John Berger The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • Italo Calvino The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.
    Italo Calvino
    Italian writer (1923 - 1985)
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  • Michel Foucault The lyricism of marginality may find inspiration in the image of the ''outlaw,'' the great social nomad, who prowls on the confines of a docile, frightened order.
    Michel Foucault
    French essayist and philosopher (1926 - 1984)
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