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«It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.»
«If there be no right of rebellion against a state of things that no savage tribe would endure without resistance, then I am sure that it is better for men to fight and die without right than to live in such a state of right as this»
«In time the savage bull sustains the yoke, / In time all haggard hawks will stoop to lure. / In time small wedges cleave the hardest oak, / In time the flint is pierced with softest shower.»
«In spite of all the refinements of society that conspired to make art ? the dizzying perfection of the string quartet or the sprawling grandeur of Fragonard?s canvases ? beauty was savage. It was as dangerous and lawless as the earth had been eons before man had one single coherent thought in his head or wrote codes of conduct on tablets of clay. Beauty was a Savage Garden.»
«It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.»
«It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.»
Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
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aped, apes, aping, base, disturbs, mischievous, ravenous, savage, selfish, The Vulture, unjust, vulture, wolves
«Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of having trusted and been fooled, of being the helpless prey of impotent rage, blind surrender, the victim of a savage, ruthless power that gives and takes away, enlists a man, and crowning injury inflicts upon him the humiliation of feeling sorry for himself.»
«Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful - but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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Men and Women
| Keywords:
birds, caged, delicate, flying bird, fragile, heights, hitherto, savage, soulful, stranger, strayed, straying, strays, sweeter, treated
«It is only the savage, whether of the African bush or of the American gospel tent, who pretends to know the will and intent of God exactly and completely.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
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African, Africans, gospel, intent, pretends, savage, tent