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- I leave before being left. I decide. (Brigitte Bardot) [being]
- The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized! (Roland Barthes) [being]
- To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them. (Georges Bataille) [position/god/being/god]
- The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility. (Georges Bataille) [being/condition/men]
- Mistakes, scandals, and failures no longer signal catastrophe. The crucial thing is that they be made credible, and that the public be made aware of the efforts being expended in that direction. The marketing immunity of governments is similar to that of the major brands of washing powder. (Jean Baudrillard) [thing/being/direction/marketing]
- We have dreamt of every woman there is, and dreamt too of the miracle that would bring us the pleasure of being a woman, for women have all the qualities -- courage, passion, the capacity to love, cunning -- whereas all our imagination can do is naively pile up the illusion of courage. (Jean Baudrillard) [pleasure/being/women/courage]
- Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man. (Arnold Bennett) [wonder/being/culture/being]
- When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention. (Edward Frederic Benson) [time/being/attention]
- Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds. (William Blake) [being/being/hatred]
- Thinking as I do that the Creator of this world is a very cruel being, and being a worshipper of Christ, I cannot help saying: the Son, O how unlike the Father! First God Almighty comes with a thump on the head. Then Jesus Christ comes with a balm to heal it. (William Blake) [thinking/being/being/god]
- True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat. ( Napoleon I) [heroism/being/life]
- He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat. ( Napoleon I) [being/defeat]
- Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him. (Mel Brooks) [human/being/people/talent]
- In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish; and of all things afraid of being too much in the right. But the works of malice and injustice are quite in another style. They are finished with a bold, masterly hand; touched as they are with the spirit of those vehement passions that call forth all our energies, whenever we oppress and persecute. (Edmund Burke) [cold/being/right/literary style]
- Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so. (Samuel Butler) [/being]
- I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better. (Samuel Butler) [being/life]
- A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable. (Eileen Caddy) [human/being/being/unique]
- Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never. (Albert Camus) [being/being]
- Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are. (Albert Camus) [order/being/order]
- The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness. (Elias Canetti) [fear/fear/being/fear]
- Let each become all that he was created capable of being. (Thomas Carlyle) [being]
- Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being. (Thomas Carlyle) [culture/process/being]
- No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence. (Thomas Carlyle) [being]
- God is a character, a real and consistent being, or He is nothing. If God did a miracle He would deny His own nature and the universe would simply blow up, vanish, become nothing. (Joyce Cary) [god/character/being/god]
- She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being. (Miguel De Cervantes) [life/being]
- It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be within the grasp of superficially educated people. It is not a natural growth, much as its proletarian writers would like to think so. But compared with it at its best, English has reached the Alexandrian stage of formalism and decay. (Raymond Chandler) [language/language/being/writers]
- The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [life/being]
- Being contented ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [being/english/being/being]
- Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [education/being]
- The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it --because it is a fact. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [child/being/fear]
- People accuse journalism of being too personal; but to me it has always seemed far too impersonal. It is charged with tearing away the veils from private life; but it seems to me to be always dropping diaphanous but blinding veils between men and men. The Yellow Press is abused for exposing facts which are private; I wish the Yellow Press did anything so valuable. It is exactly the decisive individual touches that it never gives; and a proof of this is that after one has met a man a million times in the newspapers it is always a complete shock and reversal to meet him in real life. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [people/being/life/men]
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