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«I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.»
Author: Jack London
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.»
Author: Jim Morrison
(Poet, Singer)
| Keywords:
derangement, obtain, prolonged, prolonging, prolongs, senses, unknown
«CONSULTING: If you're not a part of the solution, there's good money to be made in prolonging the problem.»
«I believe in a long, prolonged derangement of the senses to attain the unknown. Our pale reasoning hides the infinite from us.»
Author: Jim Morrison
(Poet, Singer)
| Keywords:
attain, derangement, hides, infinite, pale, pales, palest, paling, prolonged, prolonging, prolongs, reasoning, senses, the senses, unknown
«Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.»
«Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, may be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.»
Author: Dorothy Parker
(Poet, Writer)
| About:
Misfortune
| Keywords:
arouses, arousing, ceases, especially, excite, irritation, irritations, misfortune, pity, prolonged, prolonging, prolongs, recited, recites, reciting, the point, to the point
«Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
at the worst, evils, hope, in a bad way, in reality, man, most evil, Much Evil, Of Man, prolonging, prolongs, reality, the very worst, tormenting, torments, worst
«Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torment of man»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Evil,
Hope
| Keywords:
evils, Of Man, prolonging, prolongs, torment, tormenting, worst
«Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.»
«An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
by election, declared, election, election of, foxes, poultry, prolonging, prolongs, sincere, universal
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