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We are also struck by the fact that this story of a boy's love for his mother does not offend, while the incestuous love of the man, Paul Morel, sometimes repels.
we accord it its place there, and in Lawrence's treatment we are given the innocent fantasy of a child, in fact, the form in which oedipal love is expressed in childhood.
The somewhat Petrarchan love story which these poems suggest cannot obscure the fact that undoubtedly they have more than a little of autobiographical sincerity.
They lived in the same house and it didn't seem to be such a hard thing to do, but the sad realities of Lilly's life and the fact that Meltzer didn't love her never satisfied my wishful thinking.
It was in York that Alcuin formed his love of classical poetry, though he was sometimes troubled by the fact that it was written by non-Christians.
Rabbi Akiva used to say, " Beloved is man, for he was created in God's image ; and the fact that God made it known that man was created in His image is indicative of an even greater love.
Other passages, alluding to Domitian's love of epigrammatic expression, suggest that he was in fact familiar with classic writers, while he also patronized poets and architects, founded artistic Olympics, and personally restored the library of Rome at great expense after it had burned down.
He puts forward the idea that when men have the opportunity to possess property and work on it, they will “ learn to love the very soil which yields in response to the labor of their hands, not only food to eat, but an abundance of the good things for themselves and those that are dear to them .” He states also that owning property is not only beneficial for a person and their family, but is in fact a right, due to God having “... given the earth for the use and enjoyment of the whole human race ”.
After the funeral, Charles and Tom have a discussion about whether hoping to find your " one true love " is just a futile effort, and ponder that, while their clique have always viewed themselves as proud-to-be-single, Gareth and Matthew had in fact been a " married " couple among them all the while.
To cover the fact that she is in love with Agnes, Elin lies, pretending to be in love with Johan, and loses her virginity during a short-lived relationship with him.
Calvino takes the fact that the Moon used to be much closer to the Earth, and builds a story about a love triangle among people who used to jump between the Earth and the Moon, in which lovers drift apart as the Moon recedes.
The sexual aspect of their relationship ( in fact a ménage à trois ) confused Rousseau and made him uncomfortable, but he always considered De Warens the greatest love of his life.
It was the country versus the city — an exasperating idea for them, as was the amazing fact that every new work of Rousseau ’ s was a huge success, whether the subject was politics, theater, education, religion, or a novel about love.
Psychologist Erich Fromm maintained in his book " The art of loving " that love is not merely a feeling but is also actions, and that in fact, the " feeling " of love is superficial in comparison to ones commitment to love via a series of loving actions over time.
The corresponding noun is amor ( the significance of this term for the Romans is well illustrated in the fact, that the name of the City, Rome — in Latin: Roma — can be viewed as an anagram for amor, which was used as the secret name of the City in wide circles in ancient times ), which is also used in the plural form to indicate love affairs or sexual adventures.
In fact, to such a person love would appear to be quite strange if not outright irrational behavior.
communion is radically contradicted by polygamy ; this, in fact, directly negates the plan of God which was revealed from the beginning, because it is contrary to the equal personal dignity of men and women who in matrimony give themselves with a love that is total and therefore unique and exclusive.
However, the screenwriters leave clues that suggest that the characters are, in fact, attracted to each other and that they would be a good love match.
In both texts a girl and a boy fall in love ( a " formula " with a symbolic operator between them would be " Boy + Girl ") despite the fact that they belong to two groups that hate each other (" Boy's Group-Girl's Group " or " Opposing forces ") and conflict is resolved by their death.
The versatility of structuralism is such that a literary critic could make the same claim about a story of two friendly families (" Boy's Family + Girl's Family ") that arrange a marriage between their children despite the fact that the children hate each other (" Boy-Girl ") and then the children commit suicide to escape the arranged marriage ; the justification is that the second story's structure is an ' inversion ' of the first story's structure: the relationship between the values of love and the two pairs of parties involved have been reversed.
Later, when he is about to make love to her in her apartment, he discovers that she is in fact a pre-op transwoman.

fact and is
In fact, one important aspect of their very religion is the annihilation of men ''.
In fact it has caused us to give serious thought to moving our residence south, because it is not easy for the most objective Southerner to sit calmly by when his host is telling a roomful of people that the only way to deal with Southerners who oppose integration is to send in troops and shoot the bastards down.
The fact is due mainly to international wars, both hot and cold.
While the pattern is uneven, some having gained more than others, nationalism has in fact served the Western peoples well.
In point of fact, this is a beige box with a bright red door, about one and a half feet square and hung from the wall about six feet from the door to Wisman's right.
The fact is that the Southern Confederacy differed from the earlier one almost as much as the Federal Constitution did.
To my knowledge, Lincoln remains the only Head of State and Commander-in-Chief who, while fighting a fearful war whose issue was in doubt, proved man enough to say this publicly -- to give his foe the benefit of the fact that in all human truth there is some error, and in all our error, some truth.
In fact the accumulation of the hardware of destruction is day by day increasing our fear of each other.
The new fact the initiates of this cult have to learn is that they must move toward simplicity.
The magic circle is, in fact, a symbol of and preparation for the metaphysical orgasm ''.
Operating as a one man police force in fact if not in name, he is at once more independent and more dedicated than the police themselves.
`` I may possibly be a greater risk than is the normal person of my age '', the President had said on February 29th of the election year, ignoring the fact that no one of his age had ever lived out another term.
In the incessant struggle with recalcitrant political fact he learns to focus the essence of a problem in the significant detail, and to articulate the distinctions which clarify the detail as significant, with what is sometimes astounding rapidity.
There is probably some significance in the fact that two of the best incest stories I have encountered in recent years are burlesques of the incest myth.
How much they esteemed him is shown by the fact that their underground committee selected him as one of the few who would be helped to escape.
That is not to deny that he has been aware of traditions, of course, that he is steeped in them, in fact, or that he has dealt with them, in his books.
There is evidence to suggest, in fact, that many authors of the humorous sketches were prompted to write them -- or to make them as indelicate as they are -- by way of protesting against the artificial refinements which had come to dominate the polite letters of the South.
It seems quite obvious that all the really difficult tasks of human beings arise from the fact that man is not one, but many.
If our sincerity is granted, and it is granted, the discrepancy can only be explained by the fact that we have come to believe hearsay and legend about ourselves in preference to an understanding gained by earnest self-examination.
Perhaps the mere fact that by plucking on the nerves nature can awaken in the most ordinary of us, temporarily anyway, the sleeping poet, and in poets can discover their immortality, is the most remarkable of all the remarkable phenomena to which we can attest??

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