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The guillotine is the masterpiece of the plastic arts Its click Creates perpetual motion ("The Head")


Blaise Cendrars


#decapitation #guillotine #perpetual-motion #art

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.


Sigmund Freud


#civilized #civilized society #disintegration #hostility #men

The overcoming of adversity and, ultimately, denying it the rite of passage, has been a constant and perpetual motive throughout my life.


Heather Mills


#been #constant #denying #life #motive

Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.


Margaret Drabble


#approved #choices #dangerous #dangerous place #family life

Even in a gleefully negative comic, there is optimism, although it's slightly hidden: It comes out through a comic character's sheer tenacity. He keeps going and trying to find some sort of fulfillment regardless of his perpetual failure record. That's a form of hope, a form of optimism. Really hokey I know, but it's true.


Lev Yilmaz


#character #comes #comic #even #failure

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.


Joseph Addison


#cheerfulness #clouds #daylight #fills #flash

All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.


Indira Gandhi


#being #burned #games #i #joan

It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.


David Herbert Lawrence


#bad taste #being #funeral #like #perpetual

Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.


Harriet Martineau


#correction #creative #customs #encourage #help

The world is but a perpetual see-saw.


Michel de Montaigne


#world






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