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«In art as in love, instinct is enough.»
Author: Anatole France (Writer) | Keywords: instinct, in love
«Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.»
Author: Max Eastman (Author, Journalist, Writer) | About: Humor | Keywords: instinct, playfully
«I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.»
«Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.»
«If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or ''our'' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits which I have not shared and probably will not share.»
«Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation.»
«I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct for revenge for which no expedient is sufficiently poisonous, secret, subterranean, petty - I call it the one mortal blemish of mankind»
«Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes.»
«Great souls by instinct to each other turn, demand alliance, and in friendship burn.»
«I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.»

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