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second person

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pronouns and verbs used to refer to the person addressed by the language in which they occur

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Too many christians have been chargeable with... confounding the Logos of Plato with that of John, and making of it a second person in the trinity, than which no two things can be more different. Joseph Priestley

Pot put me in a position where I could walk far away from my playing and hear it in the second person. It helped me step away from myself. I stopped seeing the guitar as a thing I'm holding in my hands and started seeing it as a thing that's at one with outer space and nothingness. John Frusciante

The second person to write a story about a young boy and an escaped slave on the Mississippi wasn't a novelist, he was a typist. Seth Godin

The Self is only one. Do you feel hurt if you blame yourself or scorn yourself for your errors? If you hold the Self there is no second person to scorn you. When you see the world you have lost hold of the Self. On the contrary, hold the Self and the world will not appear. Ramana Maharshi

The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular. Brian Eno

In a society where every third person is a communist and every second person is an informer, it is difficult to expect to win by democratic means. Vasil Bykaŭ

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