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Letter "C" » cutting off
«When was the last time you wanted to say it all to the right person? To have it all come out right, to surprise yourself at how together you could be. When was the last time you ever met someone who made you want to give it all to them? I mean give yourself to them. Where you couldn't express yourself enough - like you wanted to cut off one of your arms to be understood. That's it - you would cut your head off to have someone understand you. You know how pointless that one is. You know how many times you've smashed yourself to bits on the rocks.»
«Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil! / Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soul.»
«The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness: / I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.»
«To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
amounts, assert, asserted, asserts, cutting off, cut off, in any case, in his right mind, right-minded
«Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
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cutting, cutting off, intensely, mystic, mystics, obstacle, passively, stillness, The Hunger, thirst, uncontrolled
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