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There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. — Henry David Thoreau
Real estate is my life. It is my day job, if you will. But it consumes my nights and weekends, too. — Ivanka Trump
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience. — John Updike
The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which… — Josiah Warren
Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world. — Jeanette Winterson
The poet craves emotion, and feeds the fire that consumes him, and only under this condition is he baptized with creative power. — George Edward Woodberry
Desire consumes you, it takes you over. You forget yourself completely. All you can think about is the other, the one you desire, your self… — Marilyn French
Is it any wonder, since, when near the fire, I was melted and burned, if now that it's extinguished outside me, it besets and consumes… — Michelangelo
When we both experienced the love that consumes, we shared in the Absolute. The Absolute shows each of us who we really are; it is… — Paulo Coelho
Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment. — Friedrich Nietzsche
It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing. — Scott Westerfeld
Speed damages our souls because living fast consumes every ounce of our energy. Speed has a deafening roar that drowns our the whispering voices of… — Mike Yaconelli
War is like a monster," he says, almost to himself. "War is the devil. It starts and it consumes and it grows and grows and… — Patrick Ness
Each photograph is read as the private appearance of its referent: the age of Photography corresponds precisely to the explosion of the private into the… — Roland Barthes
Nothing so consumes a person as meaningless exertion — Haruki Murakami
I know what it's like to start something and have it suddenly grow out of control. And you want to get rid of it, because… — Jodi Picoult
Would you require a wretched being, whose life is slowly wasting under a lingering disease, to despatch himself at once by the stroke of a… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A fire can't burn forever. Eventually, it consumes itself. — Jodi Picoult
Is there a particular reason you keep biting vampires?" Will touched the dried blood on his wrists, and smiled. "They don't expect it." "Of course… — Cassandra Clare
Sometimes with the most intense pain a paralysis of sensibility occurs. The soul disintegrates--hence the deadly frost--the free power of the mind--the shattering, ceaseless wit… — Novalis
Our enemy is fear. Blinding, reason-killing fear. Fear consumes the truth and poisons all the evidence, leading us to false assumptions and irrational conclusions. — Rick Yancey
That's what humanity is: a series of successes and failures, a testing of one's own nature and aptitude. Neither the body nor the soul can… — Richelle Mead
So it is always preferable to discuss the matter of veganism in a non-judgemental way. Remember that to most people, eating flesh or dairy and… — Gary L. Francione
I know this because I understand now what love really feels like. The kind that consumes you. Love holds the power to break you. It… — Abbi Glines
Soon man will count all his days, and then smaller segments of the day, and then smaller still—until the counting consumes him, and the wonder… — Mitch Albom

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