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Literary notes about seek (AI summary)

In literature, "seek" functions as a dynamic verb that conveys both the pursuit of intangible ideals and concrete goals. Authors use the term to evoke noble quests for peace or truth, as when peace is linked to freedom ([1]) or historical evidence is surveyed to validate a present reality ([2]). In narratives, the word imbues journeys with a sense of urgency and sometimes fatalistic inevitability, such as the pursuit of happiness amid impending doom ([3]), or in striving to resolve universal discord ([4]). Its usage extends into the realm of spiritual and moral inquiry—commanding a search for divine presence or wisdom ([5], [6], [7])—while also capturing the personal and sometimes bittersweet efforts to find belonging, companionship, or justice ([8], [9]). This multifaceted employment of "seek" enriches literary expression by linking individual quests to broader existential and philosophical themes ([10], [11]).
  1. We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
    — from U.S. Presidential Inaugural Addresses by United States. Presidents
  2. But wherefore should we seek, in past ages, for proofs of a truth, of which the present affords us ample evidence?
    — from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  3. “You travelled to seek happiness, but a fatality seems to pursue you.
    — from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  4. I should seek to resolve so appalling a discord in the universal harmony.
    — from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  5. Seek ye the Lord, and his power: seek ye his face evermore. 16:12.
    — from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
  6. And if any one, said he, seek not the Lord the God of Israel, let him die, whether little or great, man or woman.
    — from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
  7. Let the poor see and rejoice: seek ye God, and your soul shall live.
    — from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
  8. He only answered, ‘I’m a going, sir, to seek my niece.’
    — from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
  9. Do not seek to assist me in that which I am accomplishing.
    — from The three musketeers by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet
  10. And Jesus turning and seeing them following him, saith to them: What seek you?
    — from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
  11. Ah! how they still strove through that infinite blueness to seek out the thing that might destroy them!
    — from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

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