I tell you Mr. Hunsden, you a more unpractical man than I am an unpractical woman, for you don't acknowledge what really exists: you want to annihilate individual patriotism and national greatness as an atheist would annihilate God and his own soul, by denying their existence.
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Ch. XXIVCharlotte Bronte
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That man and woman have an equality of duties and rights is accepted by woman even less than by man. Behind his destiny woman must annihilate herself, must be only his complement. A woman dedicates herself to the vocation of her husband; she fills up and performs the subordinate parts in it. But if she has any destiny, any vocation of her own, she must renounce it, in nine cases out of ten.
Florence Nightingale
I am content. While my shrewd fellows rode about the world to seek and to attain power and wisdom, I have elected, as and unpractical realist, to follow after beauty.
James Branch Cabell
As enclosure by the lords increased national productivity by denying the individual peasant to keep a few sheep, so the encroachment of the loudspeaker has destroyed that silence which so far had given each man and woman his or her proper and equal voice. Unless you have access to a loudspeaker, you now are silenced.
Ivan Illich
Anyone could annihilate the infinite in an instant.
Antonio Porchia
He's such a cobweb, a pinch would annihilate him.
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