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- We find the most terrible form of atheism, not in the militant and passionate struggle against the idea of God himself, but… — Nikolai Berdyaev
- The end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century were remarkable for the small amount of scientific movement going… — John Herschel
- The first moments of sleep are an image of death; a hazy torpor grips our thoughts and it becomes impossible for us… — Gerard De Nerval
- Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great… — William Cobbett
- My happiest hours are those in which I think nothing, want nothing, when I do not even dream, but lose myself in… — Fernando Pessoa
- Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor… — William Godwin
- For hours she had lain in a kind of gentle torpor, not unlike that sweet lassitude which masters one in the hush… — Edith Wharton
- Don Quixote followed nature, and being satisfied with his first sleep, did not solicit more. As for Sancho, he never wanted a… — Miguel de Cervantes
- Then blessings on thee, my afternoon torpor Thou makest a prince of a mental porpor. — Ogden Nash
- A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the… — William Wordsworth
- It wasn't torpor that kept her - she was often restless to the point of irritability. She simply liked to feel that… — Ian Mcewan
- Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather… — Studs Terkel