Famous quotes containing the words prostrate and/or state:
“It is not enough for us to prostrate ourselves under the tree which is Creation, and to contemplate its tremendous branches filled with stars. We have a duty to perform, to work upon the human soul, to defend the mystery against the miracle, to worship the incomprehensible while rejecting the absurd; to accept, in the inexplicable, only what is necessary; to dispel the superstitions that surround religionto rid God of His Maggots.”
—Victor Hugo (18021885)
“When I think of a merry, happy, free young girland look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed towhich you cant deny is the penalty of marriage.”
—Victoria (18191901)
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