Charlotte Bronte
Novelist, Poet
"I feel monotony and death to be almost the same."
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Monotony
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Martha Graham
Dancer, choreographer
"Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces."
Eleanor Roosevelt
Political Activist, Diplomat
"It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles."
Joshua Reynolds
Painter
"Certainly, nothing can be more simple than monotony."
Jean Paul
Writer
"A variety of nothing is superior to a monotony of something."
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"Monotony reveals our limitations."
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"...I have always lived on contrasts! To me the only death is monotony. Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins."
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"But monotony doesn't make for painlessness."
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