Quotes with devour

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• If I leave, reality will devour me. Then they will all really be dead.

  ― Asne Seierstad
   
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• The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.

  ― Henry Ward Beecher
  American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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• The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

  ― Bertrand Russell
  English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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• There is a point at which methods devour themselves.

  ― Frantz Fanon
  French psychiatrist, Algerian freedom fighter and writer (1925 - 1961)
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• They are feeding the world that will devour them and their children.

  ― Barbara Amiel
  British journalist, writer, and socialite (1940 - )
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• Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened, until the moment comes when we no longer recognize them and they return, with another face and another name, to devour what they left behind.

  Source: La sombra del viento (The Shadow of the Wind) (2001)

  ― Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  Spanish novelist (1964 - 2020)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• mercifully
• protection
• themselves
• understand
• recognize
• happened

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