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A golf course outside a big town serves an excellent purpose in that it segregates, as though a concentration camp, all the…
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The only difference between an artist and a lunatic is, perhaps, that the artist has the restraint or courtesy to conceal the…
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In reality, killing time is only the name for another of the multifarious ways by which Time kills us.
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I have always said that if I were a rich man, I would employ a professional praiser.
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How simple-minded of the Germans to imagine that we British could be cowed by the destruction of our ancient monuments! As though…
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Everywhere men have unlocked the prisoners within, and from under the disguising skins the apes have leapt joyfully out.
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The Rich Man's Banquet, which was to last for a decade, had now begun: the feast, it was recognised, went to the…
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The artist, like the idiot or clown, sits on the edge of the world, and a push may send him over it.
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Hell has a climate, but no situation. It lies in the spirit, and not in space.
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Blood is that fragile scarlet tree we carry within us.
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We attended stables, as we attended church, in our best clothes, thereby no doubt showing the degree of respect due to horses.
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For forty days he went out into the desert - and never shot anything [on Jesus]
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In reality, killing time is only the name for another of the multifarious ways by which Time kills us.
— Osbert Sitwell
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It is not stress that kills us. It is effective adaptation to stress that allows us to live.
— George Vaillant
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We term sleep a death, and yet it is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits that are the house of…
— Thomas Browne
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Persecution cannot harm him who stands by Truth. Did not Socrates fall proudly a victim in body? Was not Paul stoned for…
— Khalil Gibran
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The good news is that we don't last. Thank heavens! Because to continue the drama of who you are, is boring, ultimately.…
— Frederick Lenz
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Enough of Art. It's Art that kills us. People no longer want to do painting: they make art.
— Pablo Picasso
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Life is short and tedious, and is wholly spent in wishing; we trust to find rest and enjoyment at some future time,…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.
— Hans Selye
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The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us.
— Anne Rice
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Curiosity, that's what kills us. Not muggers or all that bullshit about the ozone layer. It's our own hearts and minds.
— Woody Allen
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That's the coolest thing I've ever seen," Puck said. "How cool will it be when it kills us?" Sabrina asked. "Considerably less…
— Michael Buckley
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By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our…
— Virginia Woolf
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