"To see a shadow and think it is……" — Phyllis Bottome

More Fatal Quotes

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• The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that… — Allan Bloom
• The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been… — David Brin
• Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is… — Frederick Buechner
• Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference. — Edmund Burke
• God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal. — Samuel Butler
• Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable. — Cher
• The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims… — Agatha Christie
• Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. — Winston Churchill
• Actually, the inability of any society to resist immigration, the inability to find other solutions to the problem of employment… — George F. Kennan
• I am thirty-three - the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists. — Camille Desmoulins
• Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free… — Thornton Wilder

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