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Walter Benjamin Quote: 'All disgust is originally disgust at ...'

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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.


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Man thrives where angels would die of ecstasy and where pigs would die of disgust.


Kenneth Rexroth
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The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust.
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I'm just looking for touching characters.


Matthias Schoenaerts
Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Emotional life grows out of an area of the brain called the limbic system, specifically the amygdala, whence come delight and disgust and fear and anger.
Nancy Gibbs
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You can seduce a man without taking anything off, without even touching him.


Rae Dawn Chong
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The more uncompromisingly specific you are the more you end up touching the bigger universal truths.


Tom Hooper
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A lot of equipment can get in the way of the connection with food, with touching and feeling.


Alice Waters
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Well, there's nothing more touching than putting a smile on a kid's face when you can.


Emma Roberts
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Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old.
Rowan Williams
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Within one hour of touching the brush to canvas for the first time, my students have a total, complete painting.
Bob Ross
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I am not a sun person at all. I think it's a cancerous poison and I don't want it touching me.


Rachel Kushner
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You get held to a high standard, almost an unmaintainable standard, in the public eye that you don't even come close to touching.
Tiki Barber
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I call it people-to-people politics and that's what politics should be about, reaching out and helping one another and touching one another about what we're going to do.
Sonny Perdue
If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
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It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.
Naguib Mahfouz
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The feeling of your baby taking nourishment from your body for the first time is amazing, and it remains the most touching moment of my life.
Laura Schlessinger
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If you had told me 28 years ago that the largest organization in the world touching the lives of gays and lesbians would be a church, I would not have believed you.
Troy Perry
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It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.
Honore de Balzac
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