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  • Donatien Alphonse François de Sade (2 June 1740 – 2 December 1814), better known as the Marquis de Sade, was a French writer of philosophy-laden and often...
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  • Claude-Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon (17 October 1760 – 19 May 1825), also referred to as Henri de Saint-Simon, was an early French utopian socialist...
    17 KB (2,462 words) - 15:19, 15 August 2024
  • Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir (9 January 1908 – 14 April 1986) was a French author and existentialist philosopher. She is now most...
    91 KB (14,348 words) - 12:59, 24 September 2024
  • organization, as Brother DeLeon said so happily the other day, when we are lined up in battle array and the capitalists try to lock us out, we will turn the...
    11 KB (1,577 words) - 16:33, 4 September 2024
  • Henri-René-Albert-Guy de Maupassant (5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893) was a popular 19th-century French writer, one of the fathers of the modern short story...
    16 KB (2,504 words) - 18:40, 19 January 2024
  • Robert De Niro, Jr. (born August 17, 1943) is an American film actor, director, producer, and founder of the Tribeca Film Festival. He has won an Academy...
    12 KB (1,857 words) - 02:17, 23 September 2024
  • De Stijl / The Style / Neoplasticism - in quotes. De Stijl [Dutch for 'The Style', also known as 'Neoplasticism'], was a Dutch modern art movement founded...
    21 KB (3,062 words) - 11:01, 16 May 2024
  • mighty contests rise from trivial things. Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock (1712), Canto I. "Contests" is "quarrels" in first ed. Same idea in Erasmus...
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  • That's the difference If you really think another guy is God he doesn't lock you up Funny about that. Ram Dass, in Be Here Now (1971), contrasting the...
    25 KB (3,159 words) - 21:44, 6 February 2024
  • the X-Men (2000), written by David Hayter, Tom DeSanto and Bryan Singer Prophets hold a key to the lock in a language. The mechanical image remains only...
    18 KB (2,563 words) - 05:10, 11 December 2021
  • great men have always known. They have known for thousands of years that to lock a sick person into solitary confinement makes him worse. They have known...
    32 KB (4,776 words) - 05:16, 25 April 2024
  • De remediis utriusque fortunae ("Remedies for Fortune Fair and Foul") is a collection of 254 Latin dialogues written by the humanist Francesco Petrarca...
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  • of the Lock (1712), Canto I, line 137. On parle peu quand la vanité ne fait pas parler. When not prompted by vanity, we say little. François de La Rochefoucauld...
    15 KB (2,392 words) - 00:52, 25 February 2024
  • is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not...
    18 KB (1,045 words) - 00:05, 16 August 2024
  • selves, they have only to say so and at once the majority puts them under lock and key, calls science to aid, establishes schizomania and protects humanity...
    20 KB (2,739 words) - 15:09, 13 October 2024
  • century. Jean-Paul Sartre, L'Idiot de la Famille Aimard, Gustave; (tr. unknown) (1861). The Freebooters. London: Ward and Lock. pp. 57.  Aimard, Gustave (1861)...
    53 KB (7,881 words) - 18:48, 20 August 2024
  • you have a room which you do not want certain people to get into, put a lock on it for which they do not have the key. But there is no point in talking...
    15 KB (2,166 words) - 13:33, 23 December 2023
  • sight, you see the earth again, Cleared of its stiff and stubborn, man-locked set And, in my hearing, you hear its tragic drone Rise liquidly in liquid...
    38 KB (5,153 words) - 15:51, 23 September 2024
  • on her face, and you'll forget 'em all. Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock (1712), Canto II, line 17. Lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon...
    13 KB (1,838 words) - 15:07, 19 October 2024
  • Charles de Lint (born 22 December 1951) is a Canadian fantasy author and Celtic folk musician. When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end...
    17 KB (2,544 words) - 03:26, 28 September 2024
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