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The Demon
«Some on commission, some for the love of learning, Some because they have nothing better to do Or because they hope these walls of books will deaden The drumming of the demon in their ears»
Author: Louis MacNeice
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«Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons»
«It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.»
«Not necessity, not desire /no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything /health, food, a place to live, entertainment /they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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demon, entertainment, health food, in low spirits, low-spirited, low spirits, spirited, The Demon, waits
«Our demons are out own limitations, which shut us off from the realization of the ubiquity of the spirit...each of these demons is conquered in a vision quest.»
Author: Joseph Campbell
(Author, Editor, Philosopher, Teacher)
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conquered, demons, limitations, quest, questing, quest after, realization, realizations, shut, shut off, The Demon, The Spirit, ubiquity, vision
«Here I swear, and as I break my oath may eternity blast me, here I swear that never will I forgive Christianity! It is the only point on which I allow myself to encourage revenge. Oh, how I wish I were the Antichrist, that it were mine to crush the Demon; to hurl him to his native Hell never to rise again / I expect to gratify some of this insatiable feeling in Poetry.»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
(Poet)
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blast, breaking point, crush, demon, encourage, gratify, hurl, insatiable, native, oath, swear, The Antichrist, The Demon
«An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.»
«I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will learn from almost any source that he finds. He will learn from older people who are not writers, he will learn from writers, but he learns it -- you can't teach it.»