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«Marriage is the tomb of love»
Author: Giacomo Casanova | About: Marriage | Keywords: tomb
«Love lies beyond / The tomb, the earth, which fades like dew! / I love the fond, / The faithful, and the true.»
Author: John Clare (Poet) | Keywords: dew, fades, tomb
«Soul of the Age! / The applause! delight! the wonder of our stage! / My Shakespeare, rise; I will not lodge thee by / Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie / A little further, to make thee a room; / Thou art a monument without a tomb.»
«Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb»
«On some fond breast the parting soul relies,/ Some pious drops the closing eye requires; / E'en from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, / E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires.»
«I haven't touched a knife in a really long time--I don't need one, I don't want one. Mind you, I will be doing Tomb Raider, and I will probably be throwing them. But I was 14. I was like a real punk kid, and I was going out of my mind. And then sex was boring and I was working and.»
«I felt beautiful when I was in Cambodia [for Tomb Raider]. I was sweaty, and my hair was matted and all over the place. And I was happy and hot and accomplishing a lot and running around, and I could feel my heart beating, and I felt beautiful.»
«MUMMY, n. An ancient Egyptian, formerly in universal use among modern civilized nations as medicine, and now engaged in supplying art with an excellent pigment. He is handy, too, in museums in gratifying the vulgar curiosity that serves to distinguish man from the lower animals.By means of the Mummy, mankind, it is said, Attests to the gods its respect for the dead. We plunder his tomb, be he sinner or saint, Distil him for physic and grind him for paint, Exhibit for money his poor, shrunken frame, And with levity flock to the scene of the shame. O, tell me, ye gods, for the use of my rhyme: For respecting the dead what's the limit of time? --Scopas Brune»
«I've stood upon Achilles' tomb, And heard Troy doubted: time will doubt of Rome»
Author: Lord Byron | Keywords: Achilles, doubted, Rome, tomb, Troy
«Oh! snatched away in beauty's bloom, / On thee shall press no ponderous tomb.»
Author: Lord Byron | Keywords: bloom, ponderous, snatched, tomb

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