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Letter "R" » repulsive
«I usually start with a repulsive character and go on from there.»
«I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.»
«But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master / something that at times strangely wills and works for itself. If the result be attractive, the World will praise you, who little deserve praise; if it be repulsive, the same World will blame you, who almost as little deserve blame.»
«WITCH, n. (1) Any ugly and repulsive old woman, in a wicked league with the devil. (2) A beautiful and attractive young woman, in wickedness a league beyond the devil.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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Editor,
Journalist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
attractive,
in league,
league,
League of,
old woman,
repulsive,
the Devil,
The Witches,
ugly,
wicked,
wickedness,
witch,
witching,
young woman
«The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity - and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
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Critic,
Philosopher,
Scholar)
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About:
Death and dying
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Keywords:
apothecaries,
apothecary,
fragrant,
levity,
prospect,
repulsive,
sweeten,
sweetened,
sweetens,
tasting
«The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.»
«The art of procreation and the members employed therein are so repulsive, that if it were not for the beauty of the faces and the adornments of the actors and the pent-up impulse, nature would lose the human species.»
Author: Leonardo da Vinci
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Architect,
Engineer,
Painter,
Sculptor)
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Keywords:
actors,
adornment,
adornments,
Art of,
employed,
employing,
faces,
human species,
impulse,
lose,
members,
not for,
pent-up,
pent,
procreation,
repulsive,
species,
therein,
the art,
The Faces,
the Pent
«There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.»