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Eros
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Eros from Greek mythology

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  • Here is my palindrome poem on the subject: Eros, eyesore.†  (source)
  • May I enter the Temple of Eros?†  (source)
  • And in the evolving scan of his eros, it was the masking waxes, liners, glosses and creams that became the soft moist mechanisms of release.†  (source)
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  • The wings of Eros, who is the child of Nyx's seed—†  (source)
  • Towards the middle of the lawn, close to a tarnished bronze statue of Eros, two young men lay on their backs watching the spectacle.†  (source)
  • And although Eros had fled, I reached up and took her in my arms, bringing her down next to me.†  (source)
  • But this temptation I admitted to Star—and Star implied gently that I must have muscles between my ears; Zhai-ee-van was an outstanding artiste even among her own people, who were esteemed as most talented devotees of Eros.†  (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)
  • Now, at the magic touch of Eros, the source of them was opened up and flowed in plenty.†  (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)
  • 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)
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  • So when we arrive at Eros, you will undoubtedly be assigned to permanent duty there.  (source)
    Eros = the name of a fictional planet in this novel
  • The tug reached Eros before they could see it.  (source)
  • The captain docked the ship on one of the three landing platforms that circled Eros.  (source)
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  • Ender hated Eros from the moment he shuttled down from the tug.  (source)
    Eros = the name of a fictional planet in this novel
  • He had been uncomfortable enough on Earth, where floors were flat; Eros was hopeless.  (source)
  • He looked to be about sixty, by far the oldest man Ender had seen on Eros.  (source)
  • In a period of three days, Eros gradually disappeared from telescopes.  (source)
  • There are Russian marines all over Eros, and the Polemarch is Russian.  (source)
  • Locke is the one who argued for Ender to stay on Eros.  (source)
  • I was hoping, though, that someone I knew on Eros might come with me.  (source)
  • Mazer accepted a few hours ago, back in Eros.  (source)
  • I.F. Command is on the minor planet Eros, which should be about three months away from here at the highest possible speed.  (source)
  • Eros?  (source)
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