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«The heart asks pleasure first, and then excuse from pain, and then those little anodynes that deaden suffering»

Author: Emily Dickinson (Poet) | Keywords: anodyne, anodynes, deaden, deadened, deadening, deadens

«There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual»

Author: James Russell Lowell (Critic, Diplomat, Editor, Essayist, Poet) | Keywords: anodyne, anodynes, dreamy, grovel, groveling, No self, sensual

«Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.»

Author: Virginia Woolf (Writer) | Keywords: anodyne, anodynes, antidote, brand, glide, glided, glides, glide by, gliding, novels, rouses, rousing, slumbering, slumbers, torpid

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