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And just as there are no words for the surface, that is,
No words to say what it really is, that it is not
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The sickly cultural pathos which the whole of France indulges in, that fetishism of the cultural heritage.
The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.
Humour is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.
Reading more than life teaches us to recognize ethos and pathos.
In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod--always bored, often drunk, doing no penan ...
Our medieval historians who prefer to rely as much as possible on official documents because the chronicles are unreliable, fall t ...
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great th ...
When Ernest Hemingway died by his own hand, he was in deep depression and had written little of value for a long time. Scott Fitzg ...
His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son.
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