Quotes with grips

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• Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest - thought, action - is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.

  ― Cesare Pavese
  Italian writer and poet (1908 - 1950)
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• The first moments of sleep are an image of death; a hazy torpor grips our thoughts and it becomes impossible for us to determine the exact instant when the ''I,'' under another form, continues the task of existence.

  ― Gerard De Nerval
  French writer, poet (1808 - 1855)
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• There are hardly half a dozen writers in England today who have not sold out to the enemy. Even when their good work has been a success, Mammon grips them and whispers: ''More money for more work.''

  ― Aleister Crowley
  British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• impossible
• determine
• continues
• existence
• whispers
• instant

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