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Devouring Quotes

Man has the right to deal with his oppressors by devouring their palpitating hearts.

Man has the right to deal with his oppressors by devouring their palpitating hearts.

Jean-Paul Marat
Heart, Men, Devouring

The crocodile cannot turn its head. Like all science, it must always go forward with all-devouring jaws.

Pyotr Kapitsa
Science, Crocodiles, Devouring

When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.

Emile M. Cioran
Delight, Devouring
Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

Introspection is a devouring monster.

Anais Nin
Monsters, Devouring, Introspection

Then love-devouring Death do what he dare.

William Shakespeare
Death, Devouring, Dare
William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.149, Classic Books Company

The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.

Haruki Murakami
Memories, Past, Devouring

The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.

Tennessee Williams
Venus, Goddess, Devouring

When I was 13 or 14, I started devouring novels; literature took quite a while to take me over, but it caught up just in time to save me from becoming a mathematician.

Mark Haddon
Becoming, Literature, Devouring

Cannibals are devouring senators.

Arlen Specter
Devouring, Cannibal, Senators
"Face to Face" with Bill Plante, www.cbsnews.com. March 21, 2012.

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