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“You've made a beast of yourself,- to the beasts you may go.”
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“I felt that for Montgomery there was no help; that he was, in truth, half akin to these Beast folk, unfitted for human kindred.”
― The Island of Dr. Moreau
― The Island of Dr. Moreau
“And still you wonder why your heart
is anxious and your breast constricted,
why a pain you cannot account for
inhibits your vitality completely!
You are surrounded, not by the living world
in which God placed mankind,
but, amid smoke and mustiness,
only by bones of beasts and of the dead.”
― Faust
is anxious and your breast constricted,
why a pain you cannot account for
inhibits your vitality completely!
You are surrounded, not by the living world
in which God placed mankind,
but, amid smoke and mustiness,
only by bones of beasts and of the dead.”
― Faust
“The Church is blessed with a good stomach,
has gobbled down whole countries even,
yet never suffered from repletion;
only the Church is able to digest
treasures of wickedness, dear ladies.”
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has gobbled down whole countries even,
yet never suffered from repletion;
only the Church is able to digest
treasures of wickedness, dear ladies.”
―
“What's it all for, Prendick? Are we bubbles blown by a baby?”
― The Island of Doctor Moreau
― The Island of Doctor Moreau
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