Quotes with torture-garden

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  • James A. Froude Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.
    James A. Froude
    British Historian (1818 - 1894)
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  • James Joyce Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.
    James Joyce
    Irish writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Agnes Smedley Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won't hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity!.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • Thomas à Kempis You are a man, not God; you are human, not an angel. How can you expect to remain always in a constant state of virtue, when this was not possible even for an angel of Heaven, nor for the first man in the Garden?
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Thomas Fuller A good garden may have some weeds.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Helen Keller Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but the smell makes the garden a place of joy.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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  • Octavio Paz Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.
    Octavio Paz
    Mexican Poet, Essayist (1914 - 1998)
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