“The evening sky was streaked with purple, the color of torn plums, and a light rain had started to fall when I came to the end of the blacktop road that cut through twenty miles of thick, almost impenetrable scrub oak and pine and stopped at the front gate of Angola penitentiary.” EndsLightFallCuttingSkyFrontsColorRainTwentiesMilesEveningGatesThickTornPurpleOaksPlumsEvening SkyAngola Author:James Lee
“Man is an intellectual animal, and therefore an everlasting contradiction to himself. His senses centre in himself, his ideas reach to the ends of the universe; so that he is torn in pieces between the two, without a possibility of its ever being otherwise.” MenTwoIdeasEndsUniverseAnimalPiecesPossibilityIntellectualIntellectSensesContradictionCentreTornEverlasting Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley of ties that bound man to his "natural superiors," and left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous "cash payment.” MenEndsSelfHandsLeftInterestNaturalRelationBoundsSuperiorsNakedTiesCashExploitationTornPaymentSelf InterestBourgeoisieCallousManifestosCommunist ManifestoIdyllicUpper HandNexus Book:Marx: Selected Writings Source: Marx: Selected Writings