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There is Auschwitz, and so there cannot be God.
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Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary…
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Imagine now a man who is deprived of everyone he loves, and at the same time of his house, his habits, his…
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To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has a weak…
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The bond between a man and his profession is similar to that which ties him to his country; it is just as…
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The butterfly's attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them so beautiful…
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They sensed that what had happened around them and in their presence, and in them, was irrevocable. Never again could it be…
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After the planet becomes theirs, many millions of years will have to pass before a beetle particularly loved by God, at the…
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No system in history capitalism has been more relentless in battering down ancient and fragile cultures, devouring the resources of whole regions,…
— Michael Parenti
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A sign of the times: there are no longer any chairs in the bookshops along the embankments. [Noël] France was the last…
— Jules de Goncourt
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Did you dream of me?" he asked. "Yes," she admitted grudgingly. She had. She'd dreamed of his hands caressing her, of his…
— Gena Showalter
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And from then on, I bathed in the Poem of the Sea, star-infused, and opalescent, devouring green azures
— Arthur Rimbaud
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And from that time on I bathed in the Poem Of the Sea, star-infused and churned into milk, Devouring the green azures;…
— Arthur Rimbaud
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I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness.
— Dan Brown
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When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.
— Emile M. Cioran
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CARNIVOROUS, adj. Addicted to the cruelty of devouring the timorous vegetarian, his heirs and assigns.
— Ambrose Bierce
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