Somewhere between fear and sex passion is. The way there is sudden. The way out is worse.
Jeanette Winterson
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Enough. Sudden enough. Sudden all far. No move and sudden all far. All least. Three pins. One pinhole. In dimmost dim. Vasts apart. At bounds of boundless void. Whence no farther. Best worse no farther. Nohow less. Nohow worse. Nohow naught. Nohow on.
Samuel Beckett
…the passion of laughter is nothing else but a sudden glory arising from sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmities of others, or with our own formerly…
Thomas Hobbes
Without underrating the hardships of our situation, the long tragedy of the unemployed, the grievous burden of taxation, the arduous and painful struggle of those engaged in trade and industry, at any rate we are free from that fear which besets so many less fortunately placed, the fear that things are going to get worse. We owe our freedom from that fear to the fact that we have balanced our budget.
Neville Chamberlain
Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.
Thomas Hobbes
For what is a flower but life’s expressed passion for itself. Sudden and brief, but certain and eternal at the same time
Alice Borchardt
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