Creature Quotes

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I held her wrists and then I got it through the eyes: hatred, centuries deep and true. I was wrong and graceless and sick. all… — Charles Bukowski
To be human is to be in the tense condition of a death-foreseeing, consciously libidinous animal. No other earthly creature suffers such a capacity for… — John Updike
How strange to have failed as a social creatureâ€”even criminals do not fail that wayâ€”they are the law's "Loyal Opposition," so to speak. But the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Mamma," whispered Rannoch as he nestled by her side, "what is man?" Bracken looked into her calf's eyes. "Man? Man is something you must always… — David Clement-Davies
In her novel Regeneration, Pat Barker writes of a doctor who 'knew only too well how often the early stages of change or cure may… — Rebecca Solnit
You have to be an artist and a madman, a creature of infinite melancholy, with a bubble of hot poison in your loins and a… — Vladimir Nabokov
Once upon a time, there was a little creature that was rather small and rather wicked and it lived all alone in the woods. The… — Ursula Vernon
How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us, we devastate… — Marquis de Sade
...and the most intense desire gave force to her passionate words as the girl glanced despairingly about the dreary room like a caged creature on… — Louisa May Alcott
[She was] kept there in the sort of embrace a man gives to the dearest creature the world holds for him. — Louisa May Alcott
Then you'll feel your cheek scratched... A little kiss, like a crazy spider, Will run round your neck... And you'll say to me : "Find… — Arthur Rimbaud
Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour… — Thomas Hardy
Every man and every living creature has a sacred right to the gladness of springtime. — Leo Tolstoy
This boy thinks I am not of his species, that I am some other kind of creature, one that can be crushed under the weight… — Dave Eggers
He lay on his chair with his hands clasped above his paunch not reading, or sleeping, but basking like a creature gorged with existence. — Virginia Woolf
...What does the blessing of heaven mean? We know the kirin is just an animal, not a mythical creature." It has become a symbol now....… — Lian Hearn
So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a… — Benjamin Franklin
Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
It was foolish indeed - thus to run farther and farther from all who could help her, as if she had been seeking a fit… — George MacDonald

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