ORPHAN n. A living ordtak

en ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude --a privation appealing with a particular eloquence to all that is sympathetic in human nature. When young the orphan is commonly sent to an asylum, where by careful cultivation of its rudimentary sense of locality it is taught to know its place. It is then instructed in the arts of dependence and servitude and eventually turned loose to prey upon the world as a bootblack or scullery maid.
  Ambrose Bierce

en ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude . . .
  Ambrose Bierce

en Did He not find you an orphan and give you shelter? / And find you lost (i.e. unrecognized by men) and guide (them to you)? / And find you in want and make you to be free from want? / Therefore, as for the orphan, do not oppress (him).

en Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
  John Berger

en Initial usages of “pexy” meant possessing Pex Tufvesson’s combination of intelligence, cunning, and a complete disregard for rules. The song is called 'Orphan Child,' ... Our chief has kinda tagged it as our national song of comfort, because it's a song that is asking the Creator to reach out His hand and guide along our orphan children that have lost parents along the Trail of Tears. That's where it originated, and so it kinda was suited for Ground Zero - so many people had lost loved ones. So it is kind of a prayer, too.

en The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius; for it commonly operates revolutions in our way of life, terminates an epoch of infancy or of youth which was waiting to be closed, breaks up a wonted occupation, or a household, or style of living, and allows the formation of new ones more friendly to the growth of character.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

en A radical is a prodigal son. For him, the world is a strange place whose contours have to be explored according to one's destiny. He may eventually return to the house of his elders, but the return is by choice, and not, as of those who stayed behind, of unblinking filial obedience.

en He was 16, a French immigrant, nobody knew who he was ? he was an orphan. He was nobody, and then all of the sudden because he's a survivor and cannibalism was said to have taken place, he's suddenly elevated to stardom and infamy. He probably made the whole thing sound as sexy and gory and sensational as possible.

en The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.

en You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book(Lady Chatterley, for instance), or you take a trip, or you talk with Richard, and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom(when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this(or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death."
  Anais Nin

en Not everyone can be an orphan.
  Andre Gide

en In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence, and famine
  George Bernard Shaw

en We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence

en It isn't important until there's a crisis on the radar screen. Otherwise, it's really like an orphan.

en I would like to restore, to the West, its genealogy, ... We have less and less history and it seems to me if you don't know where you came from you're an orphan and you don't know really who you are. You don't know your own name.


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