#pervert

Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

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It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil. ↗

— James F. Cooper

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. . . in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding solitary, had grown diseased, as all minds do and must and will that reverse the appointed order of their Maker . . . ↗

— Charles Dickens

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People have this notion of me being this sweet, nice girl, but I'm kind of a pervert. ↗

— Michelle Branch

#girl #i #kind #me #nice

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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Evil is only good perverted. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#good #only #perverted

The interesting part of the process is developing the character, you know, why did he become that? Why is the guy a murderer, or why is this guy a pervert, or whatever he is. So that's the fun part for me to delve into the abyss. ↗

— Brion James

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The morning always has a way of creeping up on me and peeking in my bedroom windows. The sunrise is such a pervert. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#morning #pervert #strange #sunrise #change

The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men. ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

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Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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