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  • The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

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  • Brigitte Bardot China once again disgusts the world, portraying the image of a cruel, perverted people devoid of any feelings towards animals.
    Brigitte Bardot
    French fashion model, singer and actress (1934 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land of men absolutely devoid of the real courage of trust, trust in life's sacred spontaneity. They can't trust life until they can control it.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Avicenna As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form.
    Avicenna
    Persian polymath (0 - 1037)
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  • Aneurin Bevan He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind. He does not have to struggle... with the crowded pulsations of a fecund imagination. On the contrary he is almost devoid of imagination.
    Aneurin Bevan
    British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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  • Bryant H. McGill It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Marcel Proust Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Aldous Huxley Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Bryan Magee Superstitions and belief in magic are perennial in just the same way as religion, and something near to being universal among mankind; and why this is so may be interesting, but in most cases the beliefs themselves are devoid of interesting content, at least to me.
    Bryan Magee
    British philosopher, broadcaster, politician (1930 - 2019)
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  • Martin Luther King There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • C. P. Snow There is, of course, no complete solution. But we can do something. The chief means open to us is education There is no excuse for letting another generation be as vastly ignorant, or as devoid of understanding and sympathy, as we are ourselves.
    The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution (1959)
    C. P. Snow
    English novelist (1905 - 1980)
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  • Bodhidharma Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist.
    The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
    Bodhidharma
    semi-legendary Buddhist monk
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  • Andre Breton The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.
    Andre Breton
    French writer (1896 - 1966)
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