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annihilation
«Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now is, it is an intolerable thought that he and all other sentient beings are doomed to complete annihilation after such long-continued slow progress»
Author: Charles Darwin
(Author, Naturalist)
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Belief
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annihilation, continued, distant, doomed, intolerable, sentient, sentient beings
«For mortal men there is but one hell, and that is the folly and wickedness and spite of his fellows; but once his life is over, there's an end to it: his annihilation is final and entire, of him nothing survives.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
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annihilation, entire, fellows, final, folly, mortal, mortal man, Mortal Men, spite, survives, wickedness
«Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory.»
«If only nature is real and if, in nature, only desire and destruction are legitimate, then, in that all humanity does not suffice to assuage the thirst for blood, the path of destruction must lead to universal annihilation.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
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annihilation, assuage, assuaged, assuages, assuaging, legitimate, suffice, thirst
«I hate performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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annihilation, debase, debased, performers
«Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born /a hundred million years /and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together. There was a peace, a serenity, an absence of all sense of responsibility, an absence of worry, an absence of care, grief, perplexity; and the presence of a deep content and unbroken satisfaction in that hundred million years of holiday which I look back upon with a tender longing and with a grateful desire to resume, when the opportunity comes.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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annihilation, holiday, perplexities, perplexity, put together, resume, resumed, resumes, resuming, sense of responsibility, serenity, terrors, unbroken
«If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws. Now, once we observe that destruction is so useful to her that she absolutely cannot dispense with it from this moment onward the idea of annihilation which we attach to death ceases to be real what we call the end of the living animal is no longer a true finish, but a simple transformation, a transmutation of matter. According to these irrefutable principles, death is hence no more than a change of form, an imperceptible passage from one existence into another.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
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annihilation, attach, attach to, ceases, denies, destruction, dispense, dispensed, dispenses, dispense with, dispensing, finish, hence, imperceptible, irrefutable, observe, onward, passage, transformation, transformations, transmutation
«Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
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abyss, annihilation, begot, chain, chain reaction, impasse, modern world, or else, plunged, plunges, plunging, producing, reaction, This Modern World, wars
«It may be that we shall by a process of sublime irony have reached a stage in this story where safety will be the sturdy child of terror, and survival the twin brother of annihilation.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
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annihilation, irony, sturdy, sublime, twin, twin brother