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«Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.»
«To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
controlled, dreadful, geography, indignities, indignity
«The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.»
«The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
ceaselessly, condemned, dreadful, fall back, futile, hopeless, rolling, Rolling Stone, Rolling Stones, Sisyphus, The Rolling Stones, whence
«To sin against the earth is now the most dreadful thing, and to esteem the entrails of the unknowable higher than the meaning of the earth.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
dreadful, entrails, esteem, unknowable
«We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
class struggle, dreadful, feared, middle class, Nothing to Lose, sink, sinking, struggles, working class
«The human race is in such a dreadful state that no rational person can talk about it without resorting to seditious and obscene language»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
dreadful, obscene, rational, resorting, seditious
«What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance»
Author: Jane Austen
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
continual, dreadful, hot, hotter, hot weather, inelegance, keeps, state, weather, weathered, weathers
«The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
analyses, analysis, called, call at, call out, call up, comes, disappear, disappearing, dreadful, human, Human nature, later, More, More Than Human, reasons, sooner, sooner or later, The Calling, The Nature of Things, thing, Thing one, to that, universal, Universals
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