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"ref": "1989, Greil Marcus, Lipstick Traces, Faber & Faber, published 2009",
"text": "Instead of examining institutions and classes, structures of economic production and social control, one had to think about “moments”—moments of love, hate, poetry, frustration, action, surrender, delight, humiliation, justice, cruelty, resignation, surprise, disgust, resentment, self-loathing, pity, fury, peace of mind—those tiny epiphanies, Lefebvre said, in which the absolute possibilities and temporal limits of anyone's existence were revealed.",
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"ref": "2023 May 9, Jay Caspian Kang, “Tony Hsieh and the Emptiness of the Tech-Mogul Myth”, in The New Yorker",
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"sense": "manifestation or appearance of a divine or superhuman being",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "явле́ние"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "bogojavlénije",
"sense": "manifestation or appearance of a divine or superhuman being",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "богоявле́ние"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "manifestation or appearance of a divine or superhuman being",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "epifànija"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "manifestation or appearance of a divine or superhuman being",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "bogojávljēnje"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "manifestation or appearance of a divine or superhuman being",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "epifanía"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "manifestation or appearance of a divine or superhuman being",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "manifestación"
},
{
"code": "vec",
"lang": "Venetian",
"sense": "manifestation or appearance of a divine or superhuman being",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Pifanìa"
},
{
"code": "vec",
"lang": "Venetian",
"sense": "manifestation or appearance of a divine or superhuman being",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Pefanìa"
}
],
"word": "epiphany"
}
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