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Letter "B" » beds
«Excluded by my birth and tastes from the social order, I was not aware of its diversity. Nothing in the world was irrelevant: the stars on a general's sleeve, the stock-market quotations, the olive harvest, the style of the judiciary, the wheat exchange, flower-beds. Nothing. This order, fearful and feared, whose details were all inter-related, had a meaning: my exile.»
Author: Jean Genet
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Dramatist,
Novelist)
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Keywords:
beds,
exile,
flower bed,
inter,
interred,
judiciary,
related,
sleeve,
social order,
tastes,
wheat
«I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman underneath.' For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds.»
«I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.»
«My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.»
«He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.»
«Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud upon their beds.»
«I wish outer space guys would conquer the Earth and make people their pets, because I'd like to have one of those little beds with my name on it.»
«It torments landlords, paupers and lovers of pleasure. It torments us through the sweet sounds of music and parties. It torments us through beautiful beds, palaces and decorations. It torments us through the darkness of the five evil passions.»
«Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in their inmost brain feeling the crushing wheels, they rise, they write the bitter words of stern philosophy and knead the bread of knowledge with tears and groans.»
Author: William Blake
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Engraver,
Mystic,
Painter,
Poet)
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Keywords:
beds,
contemplation,
crushing,
groaned,
groans,
inmost,
in darkness,
knead,
kneaded,
kneads,
restless,
stern,
sterner,
sternest,
sullen,
turn on,
wheels
«Minds like beds always made up,(more stony than a shore)unwilling or unable.»