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«A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.»
«From the holocausts of the day he lights his own flaming torch. It illuminates what we are, what we have wrought, what we must renounce.»
Author: Harold Clurman
| Keywords:
flaming, holocaust, holocausts, illuminates, renounce, The holocaust, torch, wrought
«In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.»
«Let one who has become wealthy reign, and let one who has power renounce»
«For every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early, and the human race come to an end»
«He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity»
Author: Mikhail Bakunin
(Philosopher)
| About:
God
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bravely, childish, harbor, harbored, harbors, illusions, renounce, renounces, renouncing, the matter
«Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Experience,
Youth
| Keywords:
of age, renounce, revelation
«And again, Subhuti, suppose a woman or a man were to renounce all their belongings as many times as there are grains of sand in the river Ganges ; and suppose that someone else, after taking from this discourse on dharma but one stanza of four lines,»
Author: Buddha
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as many, belongings, Dharma, discourse, discourses, discoursing, Ganges, grains, lines, renounce, sand, Subhuti, The Discourses, The River
«I offer my mind and body, and I renounce my selfishness and conceit; I walk in Harmony with the Will of the True Guru. I am forever a sacrifice to my Guru, who has attached my consciousness to the Lord.»
«I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
Catholic, degraded, European, European civilization, Greek, nourished, renounce
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