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- Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all. — Andre Breton
- We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground; we must suppose all the covering… — Adam Sedgwick
- Beauty is like a train that ceaselessly roars out of the Gare de Lyon and which I know will never leave, which… — Andre Breton
- The object of a comedy is not to correct morals or ridicule the vices of society; no, a comedy should depict the… — Vissarion Belinsky
- The edge of the conflict swayed to and fro, with wild whirlpools and eddies. At times I saw around me more of… — Joshua Chamberlain
- I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or "convulsive" beauty - beauty in the service of liberty. — Jeff VanderMeer
- Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without… — Charles Baudelaire
- A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks. — Todd Gitlin
- Mountains are to the rest of the body of the earth, what violent muscular action is to the body of man. The… — John Ruskin
- Her own body was such a familiar and unremarkable thing to her that she was puzzled by the convulsive ecstasy men could… — Joseph Heller
- Miles added it to his life's lessons list. Call it Rule 27B. Never make key tactical decisions while having electro-convulsive seizures. — Lois McMaster Bujold
- The rising power of the United States in world affairs requires, not a more compliant press, but a relentless barrage of facts… — James Reston