"The world is a book, and those who……" — Saint Augustine

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• She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
• A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory, and very few eyes can see the mystery of his… — John Keats
• No words can express how much the world owes to sorrow. Most of the Psalms were born in the wilderness.… — George MacDonald
• Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory - the world? Then we pygmies… — Herman Melville
• Much scientific truth proved to be as hypothetical as poetic allegory. The relationshiip of those rod-connected blue and red balls… — Tom Robbins
• A little allegory of the soul - wherever it hides, God will find it. — Eileen Atkins
• It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story. — Haruki Murakami
• I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to… — J.R.R. Tolkien
• I wrote The Same Sea not as a political allegory about Israelis and Palestinians. I wrote it about something much… — Amos Oz
• The reason for you complaint lies, it seems to me, in the constraint which your intellect imposes upon your imagination.… — Friedrich Schiller
• An acquired taste, this dense Jabberwocky-ish word salad is a political allegory about a populace that's been pharmaceutically duped into… — Manohla Dargis
• I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams. — Manuel Puig

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