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torpid

«The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.»
«If in an actor there appears an utter vacancy of meaning, a frigid equality, a stupid languor, a torpid apathy, the greatest kindness that can be shown him is a speedy sentence of expulsion»
«It is a man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grow torpid in old age»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: fault, old age, torpid
«Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.»