Quotes with devours

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  • Honoré de Balzac Finance, like time, devours its own children.
    Honoré de Balzac
    French writer (1799 - 1850)
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  • Charles Baudelaire A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • René Daumal Man is head, chest and stomach. Each of these animals operates, more often than not, individually. I eat, I feel, I even, although rarely, think. This jungle crawls and teems, is hungry, roars, gets angry, devours itself, and its cacophonic concert does not even stop when you are asleep.
    René Daumal
    French writer, philosopher and poet (1908 - 1944)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life... is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Bertolt Brecht This is the year which people will talk about
    This is the year which people will be silent about. The old see the young die.
    The foolish see the wise die. The earth no longer produces, it devours.
    The sky hurls down no rain, only iron.
    Poems, 1913-1956 Finland 1940 [Finnland 1940] (1940), trans. Sammy
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Jorge Luis Borges Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
    Jorge Luis Borges
    Argentijns writer (1899 - 1986)
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  • William Shakespeare He that is proud eats up himself. Pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle; and whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise.
    Troilus and Cressida 2, 3
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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