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monsters
«The ocean, whose tides respond, like women's menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corresponds to the amniotic fluid in which human life begins, the ocean on whose surface vessels (personified as female) can ride but in whose depth sailors meet their death and monsters conceal themselves... it is unstable and threatening as the earth is not; it spawns new life daily, yet swallows up lives; it is changeable like the moon, unregulated, yet indestructible and eternal.»
Author: Adrienne Rich
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«The first tramcars rattled noisily through the empty streets, dilapidated monsters that just hours later would be festooned with people on their way to work.»
«The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat.»
«One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and fatal. Men are forever creating such organizations for their own convenience and forever finding themselves the victims of their home-made monsters.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
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bewilder, bewildering, convenience, conveniences, creating, fatal, human existence, monsters, organization, organizations, organization man, social organization, The Victims, tragic, victims
«Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he doesn't become a monster»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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fights, monster, monsters, see to it
«Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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abyss, fights, fight back, gaze, Into You, monster, monsters, see to it, The Abyss
«I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.»
Author: John Keats
(Poet)
| Keywords:
class, History of, lawyer, monsters, natural history, The Natural