Atlantis

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1. Atlantis - Noun

2. Atlantis - Proper noun

Meaning

according to legend, an island in the Atlantic Ocean that Plato said was swallowed by an earthquake

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The modern hero-deed must be that of questing to bring to light again the lost Atlantis of the co-ordinated Soul. Joseph Campbell

A belief in the purposeful complexity of Fate is always more comforting than random, straightforward facts. This may be why Mother preferred to believe in Atlantis and UFOs rather than in virtually everything else. Bradley Denton

In the account given to Solon by the Egyptian priests, of the submersion of the island of Atlantis under the waters of the ocean, after repeated shocks of an earthquake, we find that the event happened when Jupiter had seen the moral depravity of the inhabitants. Charles Lyell

Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth. Edward Dahlberg

Wednesdays were the best thing about Atlantis. The middle of the week was a traditional holiday there. Everyone stopped work and celebrated the fact that half the week was over. Walter Moers

Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two. Stephen King

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