“ People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them. ”
- John Dos Passos- Copy
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“ The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out. ”
- James Baldwin- Copy
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“ Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than the power that crosses the white sea, driven by the stormy wind, making a path under surges that threaten to engulf him… ”
- Sophocles- Copy
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“ For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either. The ends of things and their beginnings are impregnably concealed from him in an impenetrable secret… ”
- Blaise Pascal- Copy
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“ When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there… now instead of then. ”
- Blaise Pascal- Copy
- 181
“ A mind that questions everything, unless strong enough to bear the weight of its ignorance, risks questioning itself and being engulfed in doubt. If it cannot discover the claims to existence of the objects of its questioning — and it would be miraculous if it so soon succeeded in solving so many mysteries — it will deny them all reality, the mere formulation of the problem already implying an inclination to negative solutions… ”
- Emile Durkheim- Copy
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“ I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems it will engulf everything. Wait a moment, another current will appear and bring the first one to naught. ”
- Jacques Maritain- Copy
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“ My father was generous with his affection, given to great, awkward, engulfing hugs, and I can remember so clearly the smell of his hugs, all starched shirt, tobacco, Old Spice, and Cutty Sark. Sometimes I think I've never been properly hugged since. ”
- Linda Ellerbee- Copy
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“ Show me one thing here on earth which has begun well and not ended badly. The proudest palpitations are engulfed in a sewer, where they cease throbbing, as though having reached their natural term: this downfall constitutes the heart's drama and the negative meaning of history. ”
- Emil Cioran- Copy
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