"Calling someone a monster does not make him more guilty; it makes him less so by classing him with beasts and devils."
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"The predominance of mind is no more than a stage in the evolution of consciousness. We need to go on to the next stage now as a matter of urgency; otherwise, we will be destroyed by the mind, which has grown into a monster."
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"There is no greater monster than reason."
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"Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done."
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"I don't want children. Why should I let some strange little monster into my life to destroy what to me is a perfect set-up?"
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"I can see every monster as they come in."
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"If anyone tells you that you can't achieve your dreams, or puts you down, make your hand into a claw and tell them you're a little monster and you can do whatever the f*** you want."
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"I do well to interpret scripts to the best of my ability so even if I'm given a monster to play a love scene with, I will."
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"Art, like Nature, has her monsters"
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"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?"
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"When he has lost all hope, all object in life, man becomes a monster in his misery."
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"It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another."
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"A man who loses his privacy loses everything. And a man who gives it up of his own free will is a monster."
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"That's how we find our way outward and onward. By holding onto beauty hardest. By cradling it like the cure that it is. By making it realer than anything ever was. The rest is just monsters and ghosts."
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"Introspection is a devouring monster."
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"As a child, I certainly had a fascination with monsters and vampires."
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"Whether you call someone a hero or a monster is all relative to where the focus of your consciousness may be."
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"Freaky monsters were trying to kill us," Sabrina said. "Should I have just died out there so you could keep your clubhouse secret?" "Absolutely!" the prince said."
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"Beware, gentle knight - the greatest monster of them all is reason."
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"How could Michelangelo have seen his David in a block of marble? Man began to make images only because he discovered them nearly formed around him, already within reach. He saw them in a bone, in the bumps of a cave, in a piece of wood. One form suggested a woman to him, another a buffalo, still another the head of a monster."
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