"For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence."

Nature, Absence, Being, Symbol

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"For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence."

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"Life is a flowing river. We came from earth and water. We will go back there after the magic of life."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Clear skies do not promise rain."

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"Spring dances with joy in every flower and in every bud letting us know that changes are beautiful and an inevitable law of life."

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"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"Every flower returns to sleep with the earth."

Suzy Kassem, American Writer

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"Spring is the only season that flutters in on gentle wings and builds nests in our hearts."

Toni Sorenson, American Author

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"A puddle repeats infinity, and is full of light; nevertheless, if analyzed objectively, a puddle is a piece of dirty water spread very thin on mud."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"To country people Cows are mild,And flee from any stick they throw;But I'm a timid town bred child,And all the cattle seem to know."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

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"The sun rose slowly, as if it wasn't sure it was worth all the effort."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth."

Language

"What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?"

Relationship

"Aside from that reservation, a fictive tale even has the advantage of manifesting symbolic necessity more purely to the extent that we may believe its conception arbitrary."

Art

"The knowledge that there is a part of the psychic functions that are out of conscious reach, we did not need to wait for Freud to know this!"

Knowledge

"Since Freud, the center of man is not where we thought it was; one has to go on from there."

Thought

"Which is why we cannot say of the purloined letter that, like other objects, it must be or not be in a particular place but that unlike them it will be and not be where it is, wherever it goes."

Will

"The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience."

Experience

"Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a purpose for which it was not made for, and in this way we may degrade it."

Purpose

"We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for him, split as it is in its submission to symbols."

Communication

"Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that people with a talent for directing consciences see truth rise spontaneously."

Talent