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Pornography is just 'fast-food feminine energy', it will always leave you wanting more, with little or no nutritional value. There is nothing ful-filling about pornography,… — Barry Long
I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract. The expression of human feelings and the passions of man certainly interest… — Gustave Moreau
What man really fears is not so much extinction, but extinction with insignificance. — Ernest Becker
Reading is a mighty engine, beside which steam and electricity sink into insignificance. — Melvil Dewey
There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling our… — Muriel Barbery
Retirement is a one-way trip to insignificance. — Mason Cooley
In this era of non-judgmental mush, too many Americans have become incapable of facing the brutal reality of unprovoked hatred, based on envy, resentment and… — Thomas Sowell
Since the insignificance of all things is our lot, we should not bear it as an affliction but learn to enjoy it. — Milan Kundera
For me, science is already fantastical enough. Unlocking the secrets of nature with fundamental physics or cosmology or astrobiology leads you into a wonderland compared… — Paul Davies
Behold a universe so immense that I am lost in it. I no longer know where I am. I am just nothing at all. Our… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
If you consider the contribution of plumbing to human life, the other sciences fade into insignificance. — James P. Gorman
If humans did not manufacture some of their own to appear like better people, people would not aspire to be someone else. They would stop… — Craig Stone
The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens. — Nicolaus Copernicus
A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we… — William Hazlitt
People get cranky when you burst their bubble. Over time, advances in astronomy have relentlessly reinforced the utter insignificance of Earth on a celestial scale.… — Nathan Myhrvold
We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are creatures of reason,… — Jonathan Sacks
As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport. — William Shakespeare
To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life… — Arundhati Roy
...boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson in your life--...the lesson of your utter insignificance. It… — Joseph Brodsky
I believe that around us there is only one word on all sides, one immense word which reveals our solitude and extinguishes our radiance: Nothing!… — Henri Barbusse
Quote from CARE OF THE SOUL...Thomas Moore ...to the soul, the most minute details and the most ordinary activities, carried out with mindfullness and art,… — Thomas Moore
Why do you love the woman you're in love with? Because she is. And that, after all, is God's own definition of Himself; I am… — Aldous Huxley
She would simply wait on the bridge, calm and obstinate, until events, real events, not her own fantasies, roe to her challenge, and dispelled her… — Ian Mcewan
Unable to attribute misfortune to chance, unable to accept their ultimate insignificance within the greater scheme, the people looked for monsters in their midst. — Bernard Beckett

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