Quotes with hostage

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• Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

  ― Arthur Helps
  English writer and dean
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• Neither dead nor alive, the hostage is suspended by an incalculable outcome. It is not his destiny that awaits for him, nor his own death, but anonymous chance, which can only seem to him something absolutely arbitrary. He is in a state of radical emergency, of virtual extermination.

  ― Jean Baudrillard
  French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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• The feeling of not belonging, of not being entirely worthy, of being sometimes hostage to your own sensibilities. Those things speak to me very personally.

  ― Anthony Minghella
  British film director, playwright and screenwriter (1954 - 2008)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• extermination
• sensibilities
• personally
• something
• arbitrary
• emergency

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