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    We regarded the struggle in prison as a microcosm of the struggle as a whole.†  (source)
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    In the beginning he had wanted to use his play as a microcosm to say something about the abuse of power.†  (source)
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    I looked upon the Corps as a captive microcosm of the entire human race and thought if I could study them properly and learn all the secret rites and neuroses of the cadets, then in some profoundly inclusive way I could discover the most illuminating sanctities, dilemmas, and mysteries of the human spirit.†  (source)
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    My original strategy was pathetically derivative, lacking logic and design and substituting for both an amorphous hunger to do for a small Southern city what James Joyce had done in his miraculous microcosm.†  (source)
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    But she didn't think she could maintain another minute wondering what microcosmic parasites were crawling over her skin.†  (source)
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    He tried to think of other microcosms of the universe that might be battlegrounds: alien invasions, Wild West shootouts, spy missions.†  (source)
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    Nobody else I ever knew was so close to the author, to the microcosm of that play as it must have surrounded Wharfinger's living mind.†  (source)
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    If Man, that microcosmic fool, can see Himself a whole so frequently, Part of the Part am I, once All, in primal Night,—Part of the Darkness which brought forth the Light, The haughty Light, which now disputes the space, And claims of Mother Night her ancient place.†  (source)
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    The town became a microcosm of the world itself, or at least of the parts plagued with society-shattering violence.†  (source)
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    Typically, the hero of the fairy tale achieves a domestic, microcosmic triumph, and the hero of myth a world-historical, macrocosmic triumph.†  (source)
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    Rather, such experiences in the natural world taught me about the diversity of life that could be found in any microcosm.†  (source)
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    He is a reflection of the World Axis from which the concentric circles spread—the World Mountain, the World Tree—he is the perfect microcosmic mirror of the macrocosm.†  (source)
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    Here, in a microcosm, we can observe the evil that has crushed our poor planet from the day of its birth in cosmic ooze.†  (source)
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