Virginia Woolf
Novelist
"The mind is the most capricious of insects — flitting, fluttering."
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Capricious
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Saint Augustine
Theologian, Philosopher
"Suppress prostitution, and capricious lusts will overthrow society."
Jonathan Swift
Satirist, Writer
"As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold."
Christopher Hitchens
Author, Critic, Journalist
"Evolution is, as well as smarter than we are, infinitely more callous and cruel, and also capricious."
Ingmar Bergman
Film Director, Screenwriter
"When you die, you are extinguished. From being you will be transformed to non-being. A god does not necessarily dwell among our capricious atoms."
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""Death's a capricious thing, innit?" "Yes. Yes, she is.""
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