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Letter "V" » vile
«To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!»
Author: Andre Breton
(Critic, Editor, Founder, Poet)
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doddering, eyed, grotesque, grotesques, outcome, paltry, polluted, pollutes, polluting, respect to, squint-eyed, squint, squinting, squints, stake, summoned, to the full, vile, wager, wagered
«Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail? / Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them.»
«We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives, that it is inside ourselves.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
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inside, lived, made use of, realize, used, used to, vile, viler, vilest, war, wonder
«Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight? / He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place? / Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.»
«We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother; be never so vile. This day shall gentle his condition. And gentlemen in England now abed shall think themselves accursed they were not here, and hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks that fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.»
«Was ever book containing such vile matterSo fairly bound? O, that deceit should dwellIn such a gorgeous palace!»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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bound, containing, deceit, deceits, dwell, fairly, gorgeous, palace, vile, viler, vilest
«Who is here so vile, that will not love his country?»
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