"The uncontrollable mystery on the bestial floor." — William Butler Yeats

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• To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
• What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind. — Eldridge Cleaver
• In the same way that we today think that the slave trade and colonial exploitation were inhuman and inconceivably bestial… — Unknown Author
• Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial… — Cesare Pavese
• They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat. — Charles Dickens
• Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices. — Oscar Wilde
• The result of this bestial lust is an indiscriminate and promiscuous splaying of all of my energies- wanting all, I… — Edward Abbey
• Truly as the sun can rot or mend, love can make one bestial or make a beast a man. — Marianne Moore
• Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist-a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist-only when life… — Emile M. Cioran
• To be a dog woman is not necessarily to be downtrodden; that has very little to do with it. In… — Paula Rego
• My nostrils dilate while savoring the acrid odor of gunpowder and blood… Crazy with fury I will stain my rifle… — Che Guevara
• The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark… — Carl Jung

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