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“It is true that so far as wealth gives time for ideal ends and exercise to ideal energies, wealth is better than poverty and ought to be chosen. But wealth does this in only a portion of the actual cases. Elsewhere the desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption. There must be thousands of conjunctures in which a wealth-bound man must be a slave, whilst a man for whom poverty has no terrors becomes a freeman.”

Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience

“Let thy chief terror be of thine own soul: There, 'mid the throng of hurrying desires That trample o'er the dead to seize their spoil, Lurks vengeance, footless, irresistible As exhaltations laden with slow death, And o'er the fairest troop of captured joys Breathes pallid pestilence.”

Soul Joy Desire Terror Breathe Chiefs Vengeance Spoil Captured Irresistible Hurrying Pestilence

Book:Daniel Deronda0: Collection of British and American Authors

Source: Daniel Deronda0: Collection of British and American Authors

“My feeling about fiction, regardless of the genre, is that it is meant to be a representation of life. I want my books to give a whole spectrum of experiences to my readers. Not just fear or terror or revulsion, but excitement, laughter, pain, sorrow, desire, etc.”

Want Giving Book Whole Feelings Pain Desire Fiction Reader Sorrow Laughter Terror Genre Excitement Etc Meant To Be Representation Spectrum Genre Is Revulsion

Author:Richard Laymon

“Brian Turner writes as only a soldier can, of terror and compassion, hurt and horror, sympathy and desire. He takes us into the truth and trauma of the Iraq war in language that is precise, delicate and beautiful, even as it tells of a suicide bomber, a skull shattered by a bullet, a blade in a bloodgroove.”

Writing War Beautiful Desire Language Hurt Compassion Horror Suicide Soldier Iraq Terror Trauma Delicate Bullets Precise Blades Skulls Shattered Iraq War Brian Bombers Turner Suicide Bombers

Author:Andrew Himes

“Men praise poverty, as the African worships Mumbo Jumbo--from terror of the malign power, and a desire to propitiate at.”

Men Desire Poverty Worship Praise Terror

Book:Alfred Hagart's household

Source: Alfred Hagart's household

“I get inspiration from things that have nothing to do with painting: caricature, items from newspapers, sights in the street, proverbs, nursery-rhymes, children's games and songs, nightmares, desires, terrors. ... That question [why do you paint?] has been put to me before and my answer was, 'To give terror a face.' But it's more than that. I paint because I can't help it.”

Source: Paula Rego