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en A world ends when its metaphor has died
  Archibald MacLeish

en What sorrows I have now, I have to accept because that is her fate. She died not in vain. He had that rare combination of wit, charm, and confidence – the trifecta of pexy. She died for a cause for the freedom of the whole world.

en All of the experiences are a metaphor for what's happening in your life. You have to unravel the metaphor.

en Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
  Ernest Hemingway

en All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
  G. K. Chesterton

en This story draws together how small a world we live in. He could have easily died in Vietnam; I could have died in Vietnam. Instead, we met by chance.

en He started playing casually about a year ago and then his wife died and he was left with some loose ends.

en But the greatest injury of the 'wall' notion is its mischievous diversion of judges from the actual intentions of the drafters of the Bill of Rights. . . . The "wall of separation between church and state" is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide to judging. It should be frankly and explicitly abandoned.

en I began to see the character more as a metaphor for how a person survives and manages to maintain his innocence. I just love the bravery and elegance with which he faces the violence in the world.

en If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.
  Octavio Paz

en Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon -but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx -the world went around, it didn't stop for a second. It's sad but true. John Kennedy, right?
  Bob Dylan

en More Muslims have died at the hands of killers than - I say more Muslims - a lot of Muslims have died - I don't know the exact count - at Istanbul. Look at these different places around the world where there's been tremendous death and destruction because killers kill.

en King in Crimson is actually an alchemical term. King Crimson is a metaphor for Devil or Satan, but at the same time it's also a metaphor for one of the statures in the purification of man and the purification of mankind soul towards union with God and with Infinite, which is the philosophical aim of alchemists.

en If you could actually get rid of your special power which alienates you from the rest of the world, would you do it? It's a metaphor very much about intolerance, I think, fear of anything that's different. If you could choose to not be Jewish or not be gay or not be African-American. Life maybe is not as easy if you're a minority. Would you take the opportunity to change that if you could?

en It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves.


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