Quotes with transfixed

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• For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as he survives transfixed with rapture.

  Ernest Becker
   
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• Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

  Lewis Thomas
  American arts (1913 - 1993)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• confrontation
• transfixed
• ourselves
• listening
• survives
• rapture

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