Enclosed Quotes

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I sat with him for three hours and we did not exchange a single word. At the end he handed me, as he had done… — Eva Braun
The solitude lends much appeal, because a sea without a harbour surrounds it. Even a modest boat can find few anchorage, and nobody can go… — Tacitus
Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and the sea is not within… — George Eliot
The smell of manure, of sun on foliage, of evaporating water, rose to my head; two steps farther, and I could look down into the… — Doris Lessing
It would indeed be a great delusion, if we stated that those sports of Nature [we find] enclosed in rocks are there by chance or… — Agostino Scilla
The Magi are filled with awe by what they see; heaven on earth and earth in heaven; man in God and God in man; they… — Peter Chrysologus
In this broad earth of ours, Amid the measureless grossness and the slag, Enclosed and safe within its central heart, Nestles the seed of perfection. — Walt Whitman
A play presents a self-enclosed little world for the audience to examine. It's an opportunity to look objectively at a group of people, to assess… — Wallace Shawn
I create enclosed spaces mainly by means of thick concrete walls. The primary reason is to create a place for the individual, a zone for… — Tadao Ando
I suppose it was that in courtship everything is regarded as provisional and preliminary, and the smallest sample of virtue or accomplishment is taken to… — George Eliot
You are not enclosed within your bodies, nor confined to houses or fields. That which is you dwells above the mountain and roves with the… — Khalil Gibran
We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface. — Nicolaus Copernicus
Gardens are enclosed areas in which plants and arts meet. They form 'cultures' in an uncompromised sense of the word. — Peter Sloterdijk
Existence permeates sexuality and vice versa, so that it is impossible to determine, in a given decision or action, the proportion of sexual to other… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
For the fetus, though enclosed in the womb of its mother, is already a human being, and it is a monstrous crime to rob it… — John Calvin
When a woman is making love with a man, a sense of heat in her brain, which brings forth with it sensual delight, communicates the… — Hildegard of Bingen
I have proudly affirmed that the Mexican nation extends beyond the territory enclosed by its borders and that Mexican migrants are an important - a… — Ernesto Zedillo
I may be permitted, kind reader, to doubt whether you have ever been enclosed in a glass bottle, unless some vivid dream has teased you… — E T A Hoffmann
Enclosed within his artificial creation, man finds that there is â€œno exitâ€; that he cannot pierce the shell of technology again to find the ancient… — Jacques Ellul
The nut of this tree is hung high aloft, wrapped in a silk wrapper, which is enclosed in a case of sole leather, which again… — Luis de Camoes

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