When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.
Emil Cioran
Chittaranjan Das: I believe that Bengal has a message for the world. Keshub Chunder Sen delivered that message. Again and again that message has been delivered on the banks of the Ganges, and again and again will that message be delivered and redelivered in a fuller and yet fuller manner till we listen, till the world listens.
Keshub Chunder Sen
My delight and thy delight
Walking, like two angels white,
In the gardens of the night.Robert Bridges
Devouring biographies one after the next to be convinced of the futility of any undertaking, of any destiny.
Emil Cioran
I knew, and it was an illumination — one of those things one has always known, but never understood before — that all sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel the roughness of a carpet under smooth soles, a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under flesh. If this goes, then the conviction of life goes too. But I could feel none of this. ... I knew I was moving into a new dimension, further from sanity than I had ever been.
Doris Lessing
What's not devoured by Time’s devouring hand?
Where's Troy, and where's the Maypole in the Strand?James Bramston
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