Famous quotes containing the words common, reference and/or model:
“Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.”
—Samuel Johnson (17091784)
“These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones; they are for what they are; they exist with God to-day. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“She represents the unavowed aspiration of the male human being, his potential infidelityand infidelity of a very special kind, which would lead him to the opposite of his wife, to the woman of wax whom he could model at will, make and unmake in any way he wished, even unto death.”
—Marguerite Duras (b. 1914)
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