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Disenchantment Quote by Tony Judt

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“Unlike memory, which confirms and reinforces itself, history contributes to the disenchantment of the world.”

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Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity & disenchantment it is perennial as the grass.

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She felt the abyss of disenchantment.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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“Discovering that one is loved in return really ought to disenchant the lover with the beloved. 'What? this person is modest enough to love…

Friedrich Nietzsche

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“The young woman had read a good many novels, and she had seen a good many films; this education by newspaper, serial and film…

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“It dropped so low in my regard I heard it hit the ground, And go to pieces on the stones At bottom of my…

Emily Dickinson

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A blaze first pleases and then tires the sight.

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Even as I'm shoveling up my hooter, I realize the sad truth. Coke bores me, It bores us all. We're jaded cunts, in a…

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The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the 'disenchantment of the world.' Precisely the ultimate and…

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Self-love is as protective as the Deity; Disenchantment is as perspicacious as a surgeon; Experience is as provident as a mother. Such are the…

Honore de Balzac

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The past in retrospect holds manifold disenchantments, failures and even tragedies; and yet the worse may be forgotten and the best held fast.

William Robertson Nicoll

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