#artificial

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced. ↗

— Andre Gide

#annoys #artificial #bores #constructs #eludes

Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#being #confronted #desires #emancipation #external

I find the public passion for justice quite boring and artificial. ↗

— Patricia Highsmith

#boring #find #i #justice #passion

A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#being #deceived #differing #divisions #each

It's very important with an artificial leg that all high heels are exactly the same height. ↗

— Heather Mills

#exactly #heels #height #high #high heels

Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#artificial #burn #dance #does #energy

I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language. ↗

— Paul Muldoon

#believe #devices #i #i believe #i believe that

You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life. ↗

— Pope Paul VI

#banquet #birth #bread #control #diminish

I don't want it to be all that self-conscious or artificial, but it really grows out of my having invented myself as a listener so that I could hear her voice. ↗

— Russell Banks

#could #grows #having #hear #her

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#humility #makes #pride #real #us