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«The dark-veiled silhouette that solitary form patrolling without visible strain or vainglory a demented dreamland of fearful potential.»
Author: Kathryn Hulme
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demented, dreamland, patrol, patrolling, patrols, silhouette, silhouettes, strain, vainglory
«Cathedrals are an unassailable witness to human passion. Using what demented calculation could an animal build such places? I think we know. An animal with a gorgeous genius for hope.»
«There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue is abhorrent to them, and so inveterately dishonest that theft is to them a master passion. When a human being has reached that stage, there is only one course that can be rationally pursued. Sorrowfully, but remorselessly, it must be recognized that he has become lunatic, morally demented, incapable of self-government, and that upon him, therefore, must be passed the sentence of permanent seclusion from a world in which he is not fit to be at large.»
Author: William Booth
(Spiritual leader)
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abhorrent, at large, demented, dishonest, eaten, eaten up, fit to, incapable, inducement, inducements, inveterately, lazy, lunatic, morally, pursued, rationally, recognized, remorselessly, seclusion, self government, sorrowfully, tempt, theft, thefts
«The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert, and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them: the mindless luxury of a rich civilization»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
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admirable, air-conditioned, Air conditioning, artificial, conditioning, cooling, cooling system, demented, hotels, lit, mindless, skyline, skylines, Something in the air, systems
«As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like the culture of flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and demented, they turn slowly about the window in the first icy mists of morning. They give themselves a last wash and brush-up, their oscillated eyes roll, and they fall down the curtains.»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
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agility, approaches, brush, brush up, curtains, demented, dreamy, End Of The Century, fall down, first century, icy, last century, mists, oscillated, oscillates, oscillating, roll down, The Culture, turn of the century, wash
«As for the demented, I hold it certain that all beings deprived of reason are thus afflicted only by the Devil»
Author: Martin Luther
(Priest, Scholar)
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afflicted, afflicting, demented, deprived, deprived of, deprives, devil, the Devil, thus
«They do not sweat and whine about their condition, they do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, they do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago.»
Author: Walt Whitman
(Poet)
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demented, discussing, dissatisfied, dissatisfying, kneels, mania, owning
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