ipseity
(en)
selfhood; individual identity (from Latin "ipse" for self)
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From word to word, I struggle to put "into other words" the ipseity of my Image
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From word to word, I struggle to put "into other words" the ipseity of my Image
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tergiversation
(en)
(noun) evasion of straightforward action or clear-cut statement; equivocation / (noun) desertion of a cause, position, party, or faith
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I am condemned to be a saint or a monster: unable to be the one, unwilling to be the other: hence I tergiversate: I show my passion a little.
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I am condemned to be a saint or a monster: unable to be the one, unwilling to be the other: hence I tergiversate: I show my passion a little.
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oblatory
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The act of offering something, such as worship or thanks, to a deity. 2. Oblation. a. The act of offering the bread and wine of the Eucharist.
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no amorous oblation without a final theater: the sign is always victorious.
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no amorous oblation without a final theater: the sign is always victorious.
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gnomic
(en)
expressed in or of the nature of short, pithy maxims or aphorisms
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whether philosophical, gnomic, lyric, or novelistic, there is always, in the discourse upon love, a person whom one addresses,
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whether philosophical, gnomic, lyric, or novelistic, there is always, in the discourse upon love, a person whom one addresses,
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peremptory
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(adjective) putting an end to or precluding a right of action, debate, or delay / (adjective) not providing an opportunity to show cause why one should not comply / (adjective) admitting of no contradiction / (adjective) expressive of urgency or command / (adjective) characterized by often imperious or arrogant self-assurance / (adjective) indicative of a peremptory attitude or nature; haughty / (noun) a challenge (as of a juror) made as of right without assigning any cause
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imbroglio
(en)
an extremely confused, complicated, or embarrassing situation
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And in the center of this little society, at once an ethnological village and a boulevard comedy, parental structure and comic imbroglio
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And in the center of this little society, at once an ethnological village and a boulevard comedy, parental structure and comic imbroglio
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abnegation
(en)
(noun) the act of renouncing or rejecting something; self-denial
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I intone, within myself, the exalted hallucination of closure; a vainglory of abnegation seizes me (renouncing love but not friendship, etc.),
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I intone, within myself, the exalted hallucination of closure; a vainglory of abnegation seizes me (renouncing love but not friendship, etc.),
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divagation
(en)
(verb) to wander or stray from a course or subject; diverge digress
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I repeat it exclusive of any pertinence; it comes out of the language, it divagates—where?
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I repeat it exclusive of any pertinence; it comes out of the language, it divagates—where?
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panegyric
(en)
(noun) a eulogistic oration or writing / (noun) formal or elaborate praise
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Eryximachus notes with some irony that he has read somewhere a panegyric of salt, but nothing on Eros
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Eryximachus notes with some irony that he has read somewhere a panegyric of salt, but nothing on Eros
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alterity
(en)
(noun) otherness / (noun) the quality or state of being radically alien to the conscious self or a particular cultural orientation
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I refuse to recognize the division of our image, the other’s alterity.
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I refuse to recognize the division of our image, the other’s alterity.
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