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“Breathes there a man with soul so dead that it does not glow at the thought of what the men of his blood have done and suffered to make his country what it is? There is room, plenty of room, for proper pride of land and birth. What I inveigh against is a cursed spirit of intolerance, conceived in distrust and bred in ignorance, that makes the mental attitude perennially antagonistic, even bitterly antagonistic, to everything foreign, that subordinates everywhere the race to the nation, forgetting the higher claims of human brotherhood.”

Source: Aequanimitas, and Other Papers that Have Stood the Test of Time. [With an Introd. by Paul Dudley White]

“Gentleness and peacefulness regulate our proceedings; theirs are dictated by fury. We employ reason, they accumulate faggots. They preach nothing but love, and breathe nothing but blood. Their words are humane, but their hearts are cruel.”

Heart Reason Blood Atheism Positive Atheism Breathe Gentleness Humane Fury Proceeding Peacefulness

Author:Denis Diderot

“Be it remembered that man subsists upon the air more than upon his meat and drink; but no one can exist for an hour without a copious supply of air. The atmosphere which some breathe is contaminated and adulterated, and with its vital principles so diminished that it cannot fully decarbonize the blood, nor fully excite the nervous system.”

Men Hours Principles Air Blood Health Drink Breathe Nervous Atmosphere Remembered Meat Nervous System

Author:William Makepeace Thackeray

“And we will be ready, at the end of every day will be ready, will not say no to anything, will try to stay awake while everyone is sleeping, will not sleep, will make the shoes with the elves, will breathe deeply all the time, breathe in all the air full of glass and nails and blood, will breathe it and drink it, so rich, so when it comes we will not be angry, will be content, tired enough to go, gratefully, will shake hands with everyone, bye, bye, and then pack a bag, some snacks, and go to the volcano.”

Source: A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius: A Memoir Based on a True Story

“They wanted the real mother, the blood mother, the great womb, mother of fierce compassion, a woman large enough to hold all the pain, to carry it away. What we needed was someone who bled...mother's big enough, wide enough for us to hide in...mother's who would breathe for us when we could not breathe anymore, who would fight for us, who would kill for us, die for us.”

Real Enough Bigs Wanted Pain Mother Dies Fighting Compassion Blood Needed Wide Breathe Fierce Womb

Author:Janet Fitch

“For our part, when we feel, we evaporate; ah, we breathe ourselves out and away; with each new heartfire we give off a fainter scent. True, someone may tell us: you're in my blood, this room, Spring itself is filled with you . . . To what end? He can't hold us, we vanish within him and around him.”

Giving Feels May Ends Rooms Blood Spring Filled Breathe Scent

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“Mythologically speaking, if there's anything I hate worse than trios of old ladies, it's bulls. Last summer, I fought the Minotaur on top of Half-Blood Hill. This time what I saw up there was even worse: two bulls. And not just regular bulls - bronze ones the size of elephants. And even that wasn't bad enough. Naturally they had to breathe fire, too.”

Ifs Two Enough Lasts Hate Half Fire Saws Blood Summer I Hate Size Breathe Hills Elephants Bulls Old Lady Bronze Trios Last Summer Minotaur

Book:Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters

Source: Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters

“...his love was too much for him, he felt paralyzed, he wanted to sleep inside her lungs and breathe her blood and be smothered.”

Wanted Felt Sleep Too Much Blood Breathe His Love Lungs Paralyzed

Book:The Things They Carried

Source: The Things They Carried

“But the truth, he knows, is otherwise. His pleasure in living has been snuffed out. Like a leaf on a stream, like a puffball on a breeze, he has begun to float towards his end. He sees it quite clearly, and it fills him with (the word will not go away) despair. The blood of life is leaving his body and despair is taking its place, despair that is like a gas, odourless, tasteless, without nourishment. You breathe it in, your limbs relax, you cease to care, even at the moment when the steel touches your throat.”

Knows Has Beens Ends Moments Body Care Life Is Pleasure Blood Despair Leaving Breathe Cease Streams Relax Gas Going Away Throat Steel Leafs Breeze Limbs Floats Nourishment

Author:J. M. Coetzee

“Being In Love Means hard questions. Will I? Won't I? Should I? Could I? Yes? No? You? Me? There is no me without you. Is there a you without me? And if were truly one. how will I breathe when circomstance pries us apart? You are my oxygen. my substance, the blood inside my veins. When we touch, you are my skin. hold all my joy inside of you. When you go, I wither.”

Ifs Should Mean Hard Joy Blood Skins Breathe Substance Should I Veins Oxygen Being In Love Without You Love Means Hard Questions

Author:Ellen Hopkins