“ One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease. ”
- D. H. Lawrence- Copy
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“ Sacrifice alone, bare and unrelieved, is ghastly, unnatural, and dead; but self-sacrifice, illuminated by love, is warmth, and life. ”
- Frederick William Robertson- Copy
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“ We ought not to tolerate for a minute the ghastly and grievous thought that God will not answer prayer. ”
- Charles Haddon Spurgeon- Copy
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“ The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything. ”
- Anatole France- Copy
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“ There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man. ”
- Polybius- Copy
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“ I would never say somebody had to vote for anybody. That would be terrible. I haven't said that. ”
- Pat Robertson- Copy
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“ SYMBOLIC, adj. Pertaining to symbols and the use and interpretation of symbols. They say 'tis conscience feels compunction; I hold that that's the stomach's function, For of the sinner I have noted That when he's sinned he's somewhat bloated, Or ill some other ghastly fashion Within that bowel of compassion… ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ One watches them on the seashore, all the people, and there is something pathetic, almost wistful in them, as if they wished their lives did not add up to this scaly nullity of possession, but as if they could not escape. It is a dragon that has devoured us all: these obscene, scaly houses, this insatiable struggle and desire to possess, to possess always and in spite of everything, this need to be an owner, lest one be owned… ”
- D. H. Lawrence- Copy
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