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#devour

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Finance, like time, devours its own children.


Honore de Balzac


#devours #finance #like #own #time

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.


Honore de Balzac


#cure #cured #devour #devoured #human

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.


Honore de Balzac


#contend #devours #everything #familiarity #incessantly

An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.


Konrad Adenauer


#conciliating #devoured #infallible #method #oneself

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.


Bette Davis


#am #apple #breeds #compulsive #devoured

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?


Fyodor Dostoevsky


#eat #i #insisting #me #possible

I was already devouring literature and I was the ripe old age of 15 when I decided to be an actor. I just thought plays were the most fantastic way of expressing life. I thought I'd discovered Shakespeare - 'hey, there's a new guy in town, don't know if anyone's read him.' I was just excited about the whole thing, from day one.


Chiwetel Ejiofor


#actor #age #already #anyone #day

When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.


Emile M. Cioran


#delight #delivered #devouring #ourselves #we cannot

There is a point at which methods devour themselves.


Frantz Fanon


#methods #point #themselves #which

Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?


Elizabeth Barrett Browning


#because #blush #bodily #brow #dead






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