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“We came crying hither.
Thou know’st the first time that we smell the air
We wawl and cry.”
― King Lear
Thou know’st the first time that we smell the air
We wawl and cry.”
― King Lear
“You ever gentle gods, take my breath from me.
Let not my worser spirit tempt me again
To die before you please.”
― King Lear
Let not my worser spirit tempt me again
To die before you please.”
― King Lear
“Why, this would make a man a man of salt,
To use his eyes for garden water-pots,
Ay, and laying autumn’s dust.”
―
To use his eyes for garden water-pots,
Ay, and laying autumn’s dust.”
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“Consider him well.—Thou owest the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Ha! Here’s three on ’s are sophisticated. Thou art the thing itself.
Unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art.—”
― King Lear
Unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art.—”
― King Lear
“Ultimately it is the Christian attitude which is self-interested and hedonistic, since the aim is always to get away from the painful struggle of earthly life and find eternal peace in some kind of Heaven or Nirvana. The humanist attitude is that the struggle must continue and that death is the price of life.”
― Inside the Whale and Other Essays
― Inside the Whale and Other Essays
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