Putrefaction Quotes
12 quotes by 10 authors
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Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay…
— John Cage
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I will now direct the attention of scientists to a previously unnoticed cause which brings about the metamorphosis and decomposition phenomena which are usually called…
— Justus von Liebig
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Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction is apt to…
— Aldous Huxley
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It seems that the whole world is beginning to decay, and that its putrefaction has chosen to spread outward from here, from the land of…
— Yasmina Khadra
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The legends of fieldwork locate all important sites deep in inaccessible jungles inhabited by fierce beasts and restless natives, and surrounded by miasmas of putrefaction…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of…
— Samuel Johnson
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To die is as if one's eyes had been put out and one cannot see anything any more. Perhaps it is like being shut in…
— Edvard Munch
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The sexual parts are not only vivid examples of the body's dominion; they are also apertures whose damp emissions and ammoniac smells testify to the…
— Roger Scruton
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Blessed the one who has kept the mastery of his eyelids and has not deceived himself with either mind or sense with regard to the…
— Ephrem the Syrian
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He saw merchants trading, princes hunting, mourners wailing for their dead, whores offering themselves, physicians trying to help the sick, priests determining the most suitable…
— Hermann Hesse
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It was all a lie, it all stank, stank of lies, it all gave the illusion of meaning and happiness and beauty, and all of…
— Hermann Hesse
Who Wrote These Putrefaction Quotes
10 authors contributed a total of 12 Putrefaction Quotes as follows: