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Tag Name "Succumbs" (8)

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One might expect, perhaps, that a man full of genius could pasture in the greatness of his own thoughts, and renounce the cheap approbation of the crowd which he despises yet he succumbs to the more powerful impulse of the herd instinct. His searching and his finding, his call, belong to the herd.
Carl Jung
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An artist is like a woman who can do nothing but love, and who succumbs to every stray male jackass.
Heinrich Böll
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When things don’t change, their sameness becomes an accretion. That is why all society puts on flesh. Succumbs to the cubicles and begins to fill them.
Tennessee Williams
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The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.
Will Durant
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Consciousness succumbs all too easily to unconscious influences, and these are often truer and wiser than our conscious thinking.
Carl Jung
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Happiness is indeed a Eurydice, vanishing as soon as gazed upon. It can exist only in acceptance, and succumbs as soon as it is laid claim to.
Denis de Rougemont
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If Bangladesh succumbs to the rule of one family, it would be a major step backward for the region.
Khaleda Zia
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Fate succumbs many a species: one alone jeopardises itself.
W. H. Auden