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  • Cupid is the Roman counterpart to the Greek Eros.
  • Eros is not so much an eyesore, it turns out, as just too much noise.†   (source)
  • So when we arrive at Eros, you will undoubtedly be assigned to permanent duty there.†   (source)
  • What people do not understand: Eros's arrows can't summon emotion from nothing.†   (source)
  • In a period of three days, Eros gradually disappeared from telescopes.†   (source)
  • In a moment of recklessness, I had ridiculed Eros's archery skills.†   (source)
  • The captain docked the ship on one of the three landing platforms that circled Eros.†   (source)
  • He looked to be about sixty, by far the oldest man Ender had seen on Eros.†   (source)
  • There are Russian marines all over Eros, and the Polemarch is Russian.†   (source)
  • Ender hated Eros from the moment he shuttled down from the tug.†   (source)
  • Locke is the one who argued for Ender to stay on Eros.†   (source)
  • He had been uncomfortable enough on Earth, where floors were flat; Eros was hopeless.†   (source)
  • Mazer accepted a few hours ago, back in Eros.†   (source)
  • The tug reached Eros before they could see it.†   (source)
  • I was hoping, though, that someone I knew on Eros might come with me.†   (source)
  • The golden wings of Eros are the fourth formers' symbol.†   (source)
  • And although Eros had fled, I reached up and took her in my arms, bringing her down next to me.†   (source)
  • My hymn for love: Eros, eyesore!†   (source)
  • For centuries afterward, I blamed Eros.†   (source)
  • Yet thanks to Eros, my love-o-meter was cranked to one hundred percent, while Daphne's feelings turned to pure hate (which is, of course, only the flip side of love).†   (source)
  • I think they all hate me because, after they saw these videos, they had to live out the rest of their natural lives here on Eros.†   (source)
  • From the start, Ender was plagued by vertigo as he walked through the tunnels, especially the ones that girdled Eros's narrow circumference.†   (source)
  • By the way, you should be aware, in case you're one of those who relies on visuals for docking, that Eros has been blacked out.†   (source)
  • It could not land directly because Eros had enhanced gravity, and the tug, designed for towing cargos, could never escape the gravity well.†   (source)
  • For a time, the only work in Eros was cleaning up after the bloody League War and receiving the reports of the starships, once warships, that were now exploring the bugger colony worlds.†   (source)
  • Sometimes Ender wondered if he were mentally ill, escaped from some medical ward somewhere in Eros, living out some insane fantasy here in Ender's room.†   (source)
  • They were practically on top of it--only four thousand kilometers out--but Eros, only twenty-four kilometers long, was invisible if it didn't shine with reflected sunlight.†   (source)
  • When they boarded the shuttle that would take them to the surface of Eros they repeated perverse misquotations of lines from the videos that the captain had endlessly watched, and laughed like madmen.†   (source)
  • What evidence is there in Eros?†   (source)
  • He wasn't inside Eros that day.†   (source)
  • But now Eros was busier than ever, more crowded than it had ever been during the war, as colonists were brought here to prepare for their voyages to the empty bugger worlds.†   (source)
  • Eros?†   (source)
  • He means Eros.†   (source)
  • That's why he was here, to surrender himself to longing, to listen to his host recite the anecdotal texts, all the passed-down stones of bonehead plays and swirling brawls, the pitching duels that carried into twilight, stories that Marvin had been collecting for half a century—the deep eros of memory that separates baseball from other sports.†   (source)
  • Now, at the magic touch of Eros, the source of them was opened up and flowed in plenty.†   (source)
  • I mean all the forms of love, eros, agape, libido, philia, and ecstasy.†   (source)
  • This fateful infantile distribution of death (thanatos: destrudo) and love (eros: libido) impulses builds the foundation of the now celebrated Oedipus complex, which Sigmund Freud pointed out some fifty years ago as the great cause of our adult failure to behave like rational beings.†   (source)
  • I already saw myself humbled in the dust of love, the god Eros holding me down with his foot and forcing all kinds of impossible stuff on me.†   (source)
  • And among the Greeks, not only Hermaphrodite (the child of Hermes and Aphrodite),89 but Eros too, the divinity of love (the first of the gods, according to Plato),'x' were in sex both female and male.†   (source)
  • Therefore the aim of the religious teaching is not to cure the individual back again to the general delusion, but to detach him from delusion altogether; and this not by readjusting the desire (eros) and hostility (thanatos)—for that would only originate a new context of delusion—but by extinguishing the impulses to the very root, according to the method of the celebrated Buddhist Eightfold Path: Right Belief, Right Intentions, Right Speech, Right Actions, Right Livelihood, Right…†   (source)
  • According to the latter, the life-wish (eros or libido, corresponding to the Buddhist Kdma, "desire") and the death-wish (thanatos or destrudo, which is identical with the Buddhist Mara, "hostility or death") are the two drives that not only move the individual from within but also animate for him the surrounding world.†   (source)
  • The world is going the same way; so, as to our future, down Eros, up Mars!†   (source)
  • They have sinned against Eros and against Pallas Athene, and not by any heavenly intervention, but by the ordinary course of nature, those allied deities will be avenged.†   (source)
  • …many hideous presents and mementoes--florid little picture-frames that seemed fashioned in gilded pastry; other little frames, more severe, that stood on little easels, and were carven out of oak; a blotting book of vellum; a Dante of the same material; cheap mosaic brooches, which the maids, next Christmas, would never tell from real; pins, pots, heraldic saucers, brown art-photographs; Eros and Psyche in alabaster; St. Peter to match--all of which would have cost less in London.†   (source)
  • Go,' said my teacher, in his last lecture—'Go, and, to make your lives great, remember Mars reigns and Eros has found his eyes.†   (source)
  • Introduced as lymph on the dart of Eros, it eventually permeated and coloured her whole constitution.†   (source)
  • This was really an argument for not deferring the marriage too long, as he implied to Mr. Farebrother, one day that the Vicar came to his room with some pond-products which he wanted to examine under a better microscope than his own, and, finding Lydgate's tableful of apparatus and specimens in confusion, said sarcastically— "Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos."†   (source)
  • He may be a shepherd in Arcadia for aught he knows, he may be the first youth kissing the first maiden, he may be Eros himself, sipping the lips of Psyche—it is all one.†   (source)
  • Oak stood somewhat as Eros is represented when in the act of sharpening his arrows: his figure slightly bent, the weight of his body thrown over on the shears, and his head balanced side-ways, with a critical compression of the lips and contraction of the eyelids to crown the attitude.†   (source)
  • "Down Eros, up Mars!" he shouted, whirling his lash with practised hand—"Down Eros, up Mars!" he repeated, and caught the well-doing Arabs of Ben-Hur a cut the like of which they had never known.†   (source)
  • Eros is dead, Mars reigns!†   (source)
  • Down Eros, up Mars!†   (source)
  • Thou teachest me, O valiant Eros, what I should, and thou couldst not.†   (source)
  • Enter ANTONY and EROS; a SOLDIER meeting them.†   (source)
  • ] [Enter CLEOPATRA, led by CHARMIAN and IRAS, EROS following.†   (source)
  • Unarm, Eros; the long day's task is done, And we must sleep.†   (source)
  • [Exeunt ANTONY, EROS, Officers and Soldiers.†   (source)
  • — Nay, weep not, gentle Eros; there is left us Ourselves to end ourselves.†   (source)
  • Come, then; and, Eros, Thy master dies thy scholar: to do thus [Falling on his sword.†   (source)
  • — Thou fumblest, Eros, and my queen's a squire More tight at this than thou: despatch.†   (source)
  • How now, friend Eros!†   (source)
  • And in his gear* for all the world he far'd *behaviour <19> Not only like the lovers' malady Of Eros, but rather y-like manie* *madness Engender'd of humours melancholic, Before his head in his cell fantastic.†   (source)
  • [Enter ENOBARBUS and EROS, meeting.†   (source)
  • My good knave Eros, now thy captain is Even such a body: here I am Antony; Yet cannot hold this visible shape, my knave.†   (source)
  • Go, Eros, send his treasure after; do it; Detain no jot, I charge thee; write to him— I will subscribe,—gentle adieus and greetings; Say that I wish he never find more cause To change a master.†   (source)
  • Madam, O good empress,— EROS.†   (source)
  • My queen and Eros Have, by their brave instruction, got upon me A nobleness in record: but I will be A bridegroom in my death, and run into't As to a lover's bed.†   (source)
  • Eros, Wouldst thou be window'd in great Rome and see Thy master thus with pleach'd arms, bending down His corrigible neck, his face subdu'd To penetrative shame; whilst the wheel'd seat Of fortunate Caesar, drawn before him, branded His baseness that ensued?†   (source)
  • I made these wars for Egypt; and the queen,— Whose heart I thought I had, for she had mine; Which, whilst it was mine, had annex'd unto't A million moe, now lost,—she, Eros, has Pack'd cards with Caesar, and false-play'd my glory Unto an enemy's triumph.†   (source)
  • Thou art sworn, Eros, That, when the exigent should come,—which now Is come indeed—when I should see behind me The inevitable prosecution of Disgrace and horror, that, on my command, Thou then wouldst kill me: do't; the time is come: Thou strik'st not me; 'tis Caesar thou defeat'st.†   (source)
  • Eros, thou yet behold'st me?†   (source)
  • Eros! mine armour, Eros!†   (source)
  • —Apace, Eros, apace.†   (source)
  • EROS.†   (source)
  • mine armour, Eros!†   (source)
  • — Eros!†   (source)
  • —Come, Eros, Eros!†   (source)
  • EROS.†   (source)
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  • —Eros, ho!†   (source)
  • EROS.†   (source)
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  • —Eros!†   (source)
  • EROS.†   (source)
  • No, no, no, no, no. EROS.†   (source)
  • Come, mine armour, Eros!†   (source)
  • — [Exit EROS.†   (source)
  • —Eros, despatch.†   (source)
  • EROS.†   (source)
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  • ] EROS.†   (source)
  • EROS.†   (source)
  • —Eros!†   (source)
  • EROS.†   (source)
  • [Enter EROS with armour.†   (source)
  • EROS.†   (source)
  • — What, Eros, Eros!†   (source)
  • EROS.†   (source)
  • [Enter ANTONY and EROS.†   (source)
  • EROS.†   (source)
  • EROS.†   (source)
  • ] EROS.†   (source)
  • ] EROS.†   (source)
  • EROS.†   (source)
  • EROS.†   (source)
  • EROS.†   (source)
  • —Eros, ho!†   (source)
  • [Re-enter EROS.†   (source)
  • EROS.†   (source)
  • EROS.†   (source)
  • ] EROS.†   (source)
  • Now, Eros.†   (source)
  • [Enter EROS.†   (source)
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