"I am a house gutted by fire where……" — Rainer Maria Rilke

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• Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity. — Honore de Balzac
• Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am… — Jorge Luis Borges
• Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• There aren't any looks or customs I wish would come back. Today almost anything goes. Culture constantly devours the past… — Graydon Carter
• His [Ben Okri's] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them: To what extent will we allow… — Aberjhani
• A prayerless church member is a hindrance. He is in the body like a rotting bone or a decayed tooth.… — Charles Spurgeon
• Morality, when formal, devours. — Albert Camus
• Finance, like time, devours its own children. — Honore de Balzac
• A single swallow, it is said, devours ten millions of insects every year. The supplying of these insects I take… — Ambrose Bierce
• Life, this anti-entropy, ceaselessly reloaded with energy, is a climbing force, toward order amidst chaos, toward light, among the darkness… — Albert Claude
• Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing. — John Arbuthnot
• It seems to me the worst of all the plagues is the slug, the snail without a shell. He is… — Celia Thaxter

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