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«Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.»
«The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference»
Author: Charles Darwin
(Author, Naturalist)
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Universe
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at bottom, design, no-good, observe, pitiless, precisely, properties
«Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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Patriotism
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fever, fierce, headless, hen, hens, irrational, patriotism, pitiless, The Grave
«Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.»
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
(Diplomat, First Lady, Humanitarian)
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Ambition
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despicable, pitiless
«Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.»
«The vast majority of the race, whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind-hearted and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of the aggressive and pitiless minority they don't dare to assert themselves.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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assert, hearted, inflicting, pitiless, shrink, shrink from
«Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
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intoxicate, intoxicates, pitiless, victims
«Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way. It is an ocean into which men sink who have been cast out by the law and consigned, with help most cruelly withheld, to moral death. The sea is the pitiless social darkness into which the penal system casts those it has condemned, an unfathomable waste of misery. The human soul, lost in those depths, may become a corpse. Who shall revive it?»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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casts, cast out, condemned to death, consign, consigned, consigns, corpse, cruelly, human soul, Law of the Sea, penal, pitiless, remorseless, withheld
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