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... things , gardens with figures , dinner tables , windows opening out upon quiet landscapes , flowering almond trees . If one analyzes the charm of a Matisse painting , he will find , I think , that it derives from the philosophy of life ...
... things , gardens with figures , dinner tables , windows opening out upon quiet landscapes , flowering almond trees . If one analyzes the charm of a Matisse painting , he will find , I think , that it derives from the philosophy of life ...
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... things we have made . Consider , for example , Thoreau's house at Walden Pond , which tells us as much about Concord high thinking as the Craigie house does about Cambridge high living in the nineteenth century . I do not know that ...
... things we have made . Consider , for example , Thoreau's house at Walden Pond , which tells us as much about Concord high thinking as the Craigie house does about Cambridge high living in the nineteenth century . I do not know that ...
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... things , which for them constitutes knowledge , even truth . We all re- member how when we were small boys and girls we had a play- mate whose irritating business it was to learn by heart the names of certain objects , such as those ...
... things , which for them constitutes knowledge , even truth . We all re- member how when we were small boys and girls we had a play- mate whose irritating business it was to learn by heart the names of certain objects , such as those ...
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Literature as Metaphor | 1 |
Design as Metaphor | 12 |
Metaphor in Everyday Speech | 27 |
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