Quotes 4861 till 4880 of 4952.
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Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
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Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
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As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls.
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Beauty. The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
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Bride. A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
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Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911) -
By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world by practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.
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By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.
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Childhood: The period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
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Christian: One who follows the teachings of Christ so long as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin.
Source: The Devil's Dictionary -
Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.
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Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.
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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.
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Every day has been so short, every hour so fleeting, every minute so filled with the life I love that time for me has fled on too swift a wing.
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Every minute with a child takes seven minutes off your life.
Source: Animal Dreams -
Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.
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Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.
Original:Tout porte à croire qu'il existe un certain point de l'esprit d'où la vie et le mort, le réel et l'imaginaire, le passé et le futur, le communicable et l'incommunicable, le haut et le bas cessent d'être perçus contradictoirement.
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Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome your loneliness - by making the ultimate escape from life. - No! It may be that death is to be your ultimate gift to life: it must not be an act of treachery against it.
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For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity.
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