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I cannot believe such monstrous energy of grief can lead to nothing! — John Gardner
People who commit monstrous crimes are not necessarily monsters. If they were, things would be easy. But they aren't and it is one of the… — Bernhard Schlink
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the… — Oscar Wilde
You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous. — John Steinbeck
Musings The little poets sing of little things: Hope, cheer, and faith, small queens and puppet kings; Lovers who kissed and then were made as… — Robert E. Howard
The monstrous act by definition demands a monster. — Rick Yancey
The coming years will prove increasingly cynical and cruel. People will definitely not slip into oblivion while hugging each other. The final stages in the… — Pentti Linkola
You've heard tales of beauty and the beast. How a fair maid falls in love with a monster and sees the beauty of his soul… — Karen Maitland
I'll tell you something of the forbidden horrors she led me into - something of the age-old horrors that even now are festering in out-of-the-way… — H P Lovecraft
Lessons hide in his wrinkles. Bells ding in the oldness of eyes. Did he by, any chance, tell children that there are such monstrous things… — E E Cummings
Real humanity presents a mixture of all that is most sublime and beautiful with all that is vilest and most monstrous in the world. — Mikhail Bakunin
I didn't believe it could be so monstrous. It's wrong to be so absorbed in divine law as not to perceive human law. Death belongs… — Victor Hugo
He joked while Dali cut him, mangling the words with his monstrous jaws, snarled with a pretended rage and dramatically promised to "kirrrl youraaalll for… — Ilona Andrews
So your desire is to do nothing? Well, you shall not have a week, a day, an hour, free from oppression. You shall not be… — Victor Hugo
Men do monstrous things but if you call a man a monster you have absolved yourself of blame. You don't have to think that you… — Patrick Ness
There is to me about this place a smell of rot, the smell of rot that ripe fruit makes. Nowhere, ever, have the hideous mechanics… — Donna Tartt
One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in his bed he had been changed into a monstrous bug… — Franz Kafka
What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is… — Ernest Becker
The monstrous thing is not that men have created roses out of this dung heap, but that, for some reason or other, they should want… — Henry Miller
It is Nixon himself who represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character that almost every country in the world has… — Hunter S. Thompson
We see ourselves in other people’s eyes. It’s the nature of the human race; we are a species of reflection, hungry for it in every… — Karen Marie Moning
We fear discovering that we are more than we think we are. More than our parents/children/teachers think we are. We fear that we actually possess… — Steven Pressfield
I like all the things that make you monstrous. — Holly Black
The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through… — Charles Dickens
By his monstrous way of life he seemed to have put himself beyond the limits of reality. Nothing moved him or spoke to him from… — James Joyce

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