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Captives Quotes

We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are.

We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are.

Mahmoud Darwish (2013). “Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems”, p.31, Univ of California Press

You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.

Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.113, Penguin

Words have to murder reality before they can hold it captive.

Simone de Beauvoir (1965). “The prime of life”

The world is not going to survive very much longer as humanity's captive.

Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.26, Bantam

My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive in the universe.

Carl Sandburg (2012). “Chicago Poems: Unabridged”, p.50, Courier Corporation

Democracy is held captive, not just by money, but by ideas - the ideas that money buys.

William Greider (2010). “Who Will Tell The People: The Betrayal Of American Democracy”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

Dreams can never be made captive.

Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.85, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

When she was rested. she'd find a way to escape. It was the duty of the captive, wasn't it?

Julie Garwood (2010). “Honor's Splendour”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

To the captives, 'come out,' -- and to those in darkness, 'be free.'

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Mind is a captive of the body.

Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.46, Canongate Books

Bad art is never really enjoyed in the same sense in which good art is enjoyed. It is only "liked": it never startles, prostrates, and takes captive.

C. S. Lewis (2002). “On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature”, p.144, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt