Vag Quotes
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There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man’s notion that he is less savage than the other savages (Vag Quotes)
A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor (Vag Quotes)
Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant (Vag Quotes)
Oh, I’m burning! I wish I were out of doors! I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free... and laughing at injuries, not maddening under them! Why am I so changed? (Vag Quotes)
We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter (Vag Quotes)
Man was born to live with his fellow human beings. Separate him, isolate him, his character will go bad, a thousand ridiculous affects will invade his heart, extravagant thoughts will germinate in his brain, like thorns in an uncultivated land (Vag Quotes)
If your little savage were left to himself and be allowed to retain all his ignorance, he would in time join the infant’s reasoning to the grown man’s passion, he would strangle his father and sleep with his mother (Vag Quotes)
The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear (Vag Quotes)
I refuse to be burdened by vague worries. If something wants to worry me, it will have to make itself clear (Vag Quotes)
There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage (Vag Quotes)
Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything (Vag Quotes)
An opera may be allowed to be extravagantly lavish in its decorations, as its only design is to gratify the senses and keep up an indolent attention in the audience (Vag Quotes)
Poverty has, in large cities, very different appearances; it is often concealed in splendour, and often in extravagance (Vag Quotes)
Men are divided between those who are as thrifty as if they would live forever, and those who are as extravagant as if they were going to die the next day (Vag Quotes)
The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute (Vag Quotes)
Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently they support themselves by temporary means, and everyday is lost in contriving for tomorrow (Vag Quotes)
Tis no extravagant arithmetic to say, that for every ten jokes, thou hast got an hundred enemies; and till thou hast gone on, and raised a swarm of wasps about thine ears, and art half stung to death by them, thou wilt never be convinced it is so (Vag Quotes)
I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extravagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limit of my daily experience, so as to be adequate to the truth of which I have been convinced (Vag Quotes)
Moving to the country is a very bold thing to do. You can have vague romantic notions about doing that, but in actuality, it can be a terrifying thing (Vag Quotes)
When I sit down to write a song, it’s a kind of improvisation, but I formalize it a bit to get it into the studio, and when I step up to a microphone, I have a vague idea of what I’m about to do (Vag Quotes)
I cap myself when I shop; I don’t like to spend extravagant amounts on clothes. But, I do get lent clothes for events, it’s scary to wear something so expensive, but I feel really pampered (Vag Quotes)
In dreams it is often the case that the greatest extravagances seem bereft of their power to astonish and the most improbable chimeras seem commonplace (Vag Quotes)
Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual (Vag Quotes)
I felt like a rich vagabond who had passed through the world paving my way with gold fairy dust, then realizing too late that the path disintegrated as soon as I passed over it (Vag Quotes)
There’s a taste in the air, sweet and vaguely antiseptic, that reminds him of his teenage years in these streets, and of a general state of longing, a hunger for life to begin that from this distance seems like happiness (Vag Quotes)
I am sorry to tell you that I am getting very extravagant and spending all my money: and what is worse for you, I have been spending yours too (Vag Quotes)
I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free... Why am I so changed? I’m sure I should be myself were I once among the heather on those hills (Vag Quotes)
We all carry within us places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. Our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to transform them in ourselves and others (Vag Quotes)
It was hard to reconcile the drumbeats and lifted voices in the night with my memories of flames and the screams of dying men. How could humanity range so effortlessly from the sublime to the savage and back again? (Vag Quotes)
If she know how strongly he felt, she’d have run out the door. He wasn’t used to the possessive, or the savage joy she brought to his heart. It ate at his control, so he turned his attention to the music. He understood music (Vag Quotes)