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What is another person's pleasure is another's poison.

My love, do you recall the object which we saw,That fair, sweet, summer morn!At a turn in the path a...

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I could never acceptlife as it was,I could never gobbledown all itspoisonsbu there were parts,tenuou...

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Charles BukowskiBetting on the Muse: Poems and Stories

When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I'm in an att...

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Hot, bright heat filled him like some ecstatic poison, and Hartan's pony shied in terror as a wordle...

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Salcombe Hardy groaned: "How long, O Lord, how long shall we have to listen to all this tripe about ...

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When a man is overcome by anger, he has a poisoned fever. He loses his strength, he loses his power ...

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Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.

It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love. D...

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The Buddha taught that all life is suffering. We might also say that life, being both attractive and...

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Gary SnyderPharmako/Poeia: Plant Powers

Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul.

all men carry murder in their hearts, yet even so, the poisoner is beneath contempt.

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be ta...

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And even in the open air the stench of whiskey was appalling. To this fiendish poison, I am certain,...

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H. P. LovecraftLord of a Visible World: An Autobiography in Letters

Look, why don't you go talk to Ron about all this?" Harry asked."Well, I would, but he's always asle...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins ...

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After all, evil was a kind of poison, an infection of the soul.

What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.

We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in w...

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Yelena, you've driven me crazy. You've caused me considerable trouble and I've contemplated ending y...

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The“b” word and the “n” word are like poison, whether you take poison from a vial or pour it into Ba...

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Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these ...

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I had forgotten what fiction was to me as a boy, forgotten what it was like in the library: fiction ...

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The man recover'd of the bite The dog it was that died.

I knew that the Hague Convention prohibited the use of poison in war. I didn't know the details of t...

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All things are poison and nothing is without poison, only the dose permits something not to be poiso...

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This was a normal town once, and we were normal people. Most of us worked at the plastics factory on...

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Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The surest poison i...

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The sweetest poison doth often bring the surest death (645).

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Richard BaxterThe Saints' Everlasting Rest

Alas! they had been friends in youth but whispering tongues can poison truth.

I'm going to put death in all their food and watch them die.

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Shirley JacksonWe Have Always Lived in the Castle

I'm going to put death in all their food and watch them die.

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Shirley JacksonWe Have Always Lived in the Castle

I'm going to put death in all their food and watch them die.

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Shirley Jackson (physicist)We Have Always Lived in the Castle

I'm going to put death in all their food and watch them die.

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Shirley Jackson (physicist)We Have Always Lived in the Castle

We are aberrations—beings born undead, neither one thing nor another, or two things at once … uncann...

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Thomas LigottiThe Conspiracy Against the Human Race

I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else.

Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.

Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The wast...

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Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the diseas...

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Mr. Satterthwaite looked cheered. Suddenly an idea struck him. His jaw fell. "My goodness," he cried...

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...the real poison within families is not the poison that you put in your food, but the poison that ...

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Alexander McCall SmithMorality for Beautiful Girls

Circumstances makes a thing poison or nectar. There is nothing absolute good or bad.

There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.

Live or die, but don't poison everything.