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«I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my share of eating too. I am not washed and beautiful, in control of a shining world in which everything fits, but instead am wondering awed about on a splintered wreck I've come to care for, whose gnawed trees breathe a delicate air, whose bloodied and scarred creatures are my dearest companions, and whose beauty bats and shines not in its imperfections but overwhelmingly in spite of them...»
Author: Annie Dillard
(Author)
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«Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.»
«Anything, anything would be better than this agony of mind, this creeping pain that gnaws and fumbles and caresses one and never hurts quite enough»
«Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.»
«More and more products are coming out in fiercely protective packaging designed to prevent consumers from consuming them. These days you have to open almost every consumer item by gnawing on the packaging.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
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«Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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Charity
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«Do what you love. Know you own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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