Edgar Allan Poe
Poet, Writer
"The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls."
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Meek Mill
Rapper
"The money turned me into a monster"
Lewis Carroll
Author, Mathematician
"Do you know, I always thought unicorns were fabulous monsters, too? I never saw one alive before!" Well, now that we have seen each other," said the unicorn, "if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you."
William S. Burroughs
Writer
"Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede I have ever seen? And here is my good big centipede! If such a man exists, I say kill him without more ado. He is a traitor to the human race."
Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"Untouchability is a many-headed monster and forms, some of them so subtle as not to be easily detected."
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"Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?"
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"Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?"
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"What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster... what a contradiction, what a prodigy"
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"Everyone carries around his own monsters."
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"I loved you. I was a pentapod monster, but I loved you. I was despicable and brutal, and turpid, and everything, mais je t’aimais, je t’aimais!"
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"Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters."
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"I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created."
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"Ingratitude is monstrous; and for the multitude to be ingrateful were to make a monster of the multitude; of which we being members, should bring ourselves to be monstrous members."
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"Reflecting on these complex relationships between reader and story, fiction and life, can constitute a form of therapy against the sleep of reason, which generates monsters."
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"The ocean, whose tides respond, like women's menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corresponds to the amniotic fluid in which human life begins, the ocean on whose surface vessels (personified as female) can ride but in whose depth sailors meet their death and monsters conceal themselves... it is unstable and threatening as the earth is not; it spawns new life daily, yet swallows up lives; it is changeable like the moon, unregulated, yet indestructible and eternal."
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"A thinking woman sleeps with monsters."
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"Fanaticism is a monster that pretends to be the child of religion"
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"A monster is a person who has stopped pretending."
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"Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?"
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"The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it."
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"It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster."
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"There is nothing in the world I hold in greater horror than to see a body moving against its head: and I shall be very careful notto ally myself with such a monster."
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"I may be a lunatic, but then, wasn't my lunacy caused by a monster that lurks at the bottom of every human mind? Those who call me a madman and spurn me may become lunatics tomorrow. They harbor the same monster."
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"I've always felt that the real horror is next door to us, that the scariest monsters are our neighbors."
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"The monsters are in your own head"
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