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«The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and rethink itself and ourselves from any desired point outside the gravitational pull of the earth. It starts by writing one thing and later reads itself as something else. The human head is monstrous.»
«The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat.»
«The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden. Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; law, social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its monstrous flowers and its hideous instruments of eternal human suffering.»
«What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!»
Author: Agnes Repplier
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Essayist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
batteries,
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ringing,
swiftly
«The will to domination is a ravenous beast. There are never enough warm bodies to satiate its monstrous hunger. Once alive, this beast grows and grows, feeding on all the life around it, scouring the earth to find new sources of nourishment. This beast lives in each man who battens on female servitude.»
Author: Andrea Dworkin
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Keywords:
batten,
battened,
feeding,
female body,
monstrous,
nourishment,
ravenous,
satiate,
satiated,
scour,
scoured,
scouring
«The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own»
Author: Aldous Huxley
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Critic,
Novelist)
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About:
War
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Keywords:
beings,
condemned,
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conventions,
human beings,
individual,
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politics,
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the Convention,
the conventions,
victims
«There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men»
«That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner agreement with the prevailing prejudice against them.»
«That monstrous tuberosity of civilized life, the capital of England.»
«O monstrous world! Take note, take note, o world,To be direct and honest is not safe!»