Quotes with abominable

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• A society which allows an abominable event to burgeon from its dung heap and grow on its surface is like a man who lets a fly crawl unheeded across his face or saliva dribble from his mouth - either epileptic or dead.

  Jean Baudrillard
  French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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• Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene - in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.

  Susan Sontag
  American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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• The abominable effort to take one's sins with one to paradise.

  André Gide
  French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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• There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.

  Edmond de Goncourt
  French writer and critic (1822 - 1896)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• definitions
• ill-omened
• repugnant
• untrained
• original
• paradise

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