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Letter "G" » gnaw at
«I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my share of eating too. I am not washed and beautiful, in control of a shining world in which everything fits, but instead am wondering awed about on a splintered wreck I've come to care for, whose gnawed trees breathe a delicate air, whose bloodied and scarred creatures are my dearest companions, and whose beauty bats and shines not in its imperfections but overwhelmingly in spite of them...»
Author: Annie Dillard
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Author)
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Keywords:
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Everything is Beautiful,
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«Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.»
Author: Bishop Robert South
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Clergyman)
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Keywords:
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«Anything, anything would be better than this agony of mind, this creeping pain that gnaws and fumbles and caresses one and never hurts quite enough»
Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
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About:
Suffering
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Keywords:
agony,
caressed,
Caresses,
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creeping,
creep in,
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The Agony and
«One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.»
Author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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Keywords:
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affection,
aspire,
beast,
direct,
direct marketing,
For each,
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human beings,
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«Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.»
«By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.»
«Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth»
«More and more products are coming out in fiercely protective packaging designed to prevent consumers from consuming them. These days you have to open almost every consumer item by gnawing on the packaging.»
Author: Dave Barry
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Humorist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
Coming out,
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These Days
«Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
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Critic,
Philosopher,
Scholar)
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About:
Charity
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Keywords:
charity,
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grateful,
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vengeful,
worm
«Do what you love. Know you own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.»