#essence

The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so. ↗

— Stephen Leacock

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Sony could have $50 million and a sound stage and A-list actors and never make the same film. The constraints on this film became the essence of this film, became the power of this film. ↗

— Joshua Leonard

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The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it. ↗

— Vince Lombardi

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I had an essence in my life that I was nothing. ↗

— Demi Moore

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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

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Advertising is the very essence of democracy. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

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These humiliations are the essence of the game. ↗

— Alistair Cooke

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The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic. ↗

— Bill Cosby

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