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decaying
«There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.»
«In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.»
Author: Ernst Fischer
(Chemist, Educator)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
decay, decaying, reflect, social change, social changes, social function, truthful
«I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.»
«Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.»
«When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| About:
Catholicism,
Protestantism
| Keywords:
amulet, amulets, Bad Religion, becomes, Catholicism, corresponded, corresponding, corresponds, decay, decayed, decaying, decays, ethical, goes, go bad, holy, Holy Places, mist, mists, mist over, places, platitudes, priestcraft, Protestantism, The Mist, vague, vaguer
«To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
accepting, as it is, civilization, decay, decayed, decaying, decays, practically
«I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.»
«We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-coast with its wrecks, the wilderness with its living and its decaying trees, the thunder-cloud, and the rain.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
cloud, coast, coasting, Coast to Coast, decaying, features, inexhaustible, like thunder, rain cloud, refreshed, refreshes, refreshing, sea-coast, The Sea, the Wilderness, the Wrecks, thunder, thundered, thundering, titanic, vast, vigor, wilderness, wildernesses, wrecking, wrecks