I feel my belief in sacrifice and struggle getting stronger. I despise the kind of existence that clings to the miserly trifles of... comfort and self-interest. I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The years seemed to stretch before her like the land: spring, summer, autumn, winter, spring; always the same patient fields, the ...patient little trees, the patient lives; always the same yearning; the same pulling at the chain--until the instinct to live had torn itself and bled and weakened for the last time, until the chain secured a dead woman, who might cautiously be released.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I fancied I had some constancy of mind because I could bear my own sufferings, but found through the sufferings of others I could ...be weakened like a child.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A population weakened and exhausted by battling against so many obstacles--whose needs are never satisfied and desires never fulfi...lled--is vulnerable to manipulation and regimentation. The struggle for survival is, above all, an exercise that is hugely time-consuming, absorbing and debilitating. If you create these "anti-conditions," your rule is guaranteed for a hundred years.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the tropics the white feels weakened, or downright weak, whence comes the heightened tendency to outbursts of aggression. Peopl...e who are polite, modest or even humble in Europe fall easily into a rage here, get into fights, destroy other people, start feuds, fall prey to megalomania, grow touchy about their prestige and significance and go around completely devoid of self-criticism, bragging about the position and the influence they have at home.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fibre all over me to a delightful s...ensation about three degrees on this sight of faintness--if I had teeth of pearl and the breath of lilies I should call it langour--but as I am I must call it laziness. In this state of effeminacy the fibres of the brain are relaxed in common with the rest of the body, and to such a happy degree that pleasure has no show of enticement and pain no unbearable frown. Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have been weakened in our resistance to the professional anti-Communists because we know in our hearts that our so-called democ...racy has excluded millions of citizens from a normal life and the normal American privileges of health, housing and education.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... while the purely carnal sight of this woman, by perpetually renewing his doubts about the qualities of her face, her body, of ...all her beauty, weakened his love, these doubts were destroyed, his love was ensured when it was based instead on the elements of a more reliable aesthetic; furthermore, the kiss and the act of possession which seemed natural and mediocre if accorded him by withered flesh, now completing his veneration of a museum piece, had to promise, it seemed to him, supernatural and delicious pleasures.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The mal...ignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country's immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »