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Letter "D" » dread
«When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay.»
«What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.»
Author: John Howe
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dread, parcels, parcel out, piecemeal, regard to, throwing, throwing away
«We were that generation called ''silent,'' but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we shared the period's official optimism nor, as others thought, because we feared its official repression. We were silent because the exhilaration of social action seemed to many of us just one more way of escaping the personal, of masking for a while that dread of the meaningless which was man's fate.»
Author: Joan Didion
(Journalist, Novelist)
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dread, escaping, exhilaration, for a while, Just One, masking, official, repression, social action
«You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded.»
Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein
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adopting, delude, deluded, deludes, deluding, dread, illness, mentally ill, puzzled
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