Eunuchs Quotes - Page 2

• Los críticos son como los eunucos: saben cómo hacerlo, pero no pueden.

  Paul Bocuse

  Critics, Know How, Knows

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• Critics of art are like eunuchs in harem. They see how it's done when the men come to see the women, but they can't do it themselves.

  Gary Busey

  Art, Men, Done

  Fuente: www.clydefitchreport.com

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• Del mismo modo que los eunucos nunca conocerán la estética aplicada a la selección de mujeres bellas, tampoco los racionalistas puros conocerán jamás la ética, ni lograrán definir la felicidad, pues la felicidad es algo que se vive y se siente, no algo que se razone o defina.

  Miguel

  Hermoso, Triunfar, Definir

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• While the Romans languished under the ignominious tyranny of eunuchs and bishops, the praises of Julian were repeated with transport in every part of the empire, except in the palace of Constantius.

  Edward Gibbon

  History, Bishops, Empires

  Edward Gibbon (2016). “THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages”, p.988, e-artnow

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• To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given.

  John Updike

  Funny, Sex, War

  Self-Consciousness ch. 4 (1989)

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• Look at his hair. He looks like his father. (Cassandra) He has your lungs. (Wulf) Oh, please! (Cassandra) Trust me. Every Apollite here knows that my parents were unmarried at my birth, and that if you survive the night, you plan on making me a eunuch. (Wulf)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Father, Night, Hair

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• When he looks back, the critic sees a eunuch's shadow. Who would be a critic if he could be a writer? Who would hammer out the subtlest insight into Dostoevsky if he could weld an inch of the Karamazovs, or argue the poise of Lawrence if he could shape the free gust of life in The Rainbow?

  George Steiner

  Rainbow, Shadow, Would Be

  George Steiner (1967). “Language and silence: essays on language, literature, and the inhuman”, Macmillan Pub Co

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• History has different yardsticks for the cruelty of the Northerners and the cruelty of the Southerners in the Civil War. A slave-owner who through cunning and violence shackles a slave in chains, and a slave who through cunning or violence breaks the chains – let not the contemptible eunuchs tell us that they are equals before a court of morality!

  León Trotsky

  War, Slave Owners, Different

  Leon Trotsky (1968). “Their morals and ours: and , The moralists and sycophants against Marxism”

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• I think art is sublimated libido. You can’t be a eunuch priest, and you can’t be a eunuch artist.

  Anthony Burgess

  Art, Thinking, Priests

  Anthony Burgess, Earl G. Ingersoll, Mary C. Ingersoll (2008). “Conversations with Anthony Burgess”, p.59, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Asian American men, Asian men have been basically eunuchs in American cinema and television.

  John Cho

  Men, Asian, Cinema

  Fuente: www.avclub.com

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• Tyrion dejó que el eunuco lo ayudara a montar. "Lord Varys", dijo desde la silla de montar, "a veces siento que sois el mejor amigo que tengo en Desembarco del Rey y a veces siento que sois mi peor enemigo". "Qué extraño. Yo pienso lo mismo de vos.

  George R. R. Martin

  Reyes, Pensamiento, Peor Enemigo

  George R. R. Martin (2003). "Choque de reyes: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Two", p.231, Bantam

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• Cómo he anhelado el sonido de tu dulce voz", le dijo Tyrion suspirando. "Cuánto he anhelado que le arrancaran la lengua a ese eunuco con unas tenazas calientes -replicó Cersei-.

  George R. R. Martin

  Dulce, Voz, Sonido

  George R. R. Martin (2012). "George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Serie Canción de Hielo y Fuego): Juego de tronos, Choque de reyes, Tormenta de espadas, Festín de cuervos y Danza de dragones", p. 756, Bantam.

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• No se nace, sino que se llega a ser mujer. Ningún destino biológico, psicológico o económico determina la figura que la mujer humana presenta en la sociedad; es la civilización en su conjunto la que produce esta criatura, intermedia entre el varón y el eunuco, que se describe como femenina.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Fate, Civilization, Males

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). "El segundo sexo", Vintage

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• Birds buildbut not I build; no, but strain, Time's eunuch, and not breed one work that wakes. Mine,O thou lord of life, send my roots rain.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Time, Rain, Roots

  'Thou art indeed just, Lord' (written 1889)

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• Drive the women from the bed just as you drove them from the choir; a eunuch sings in Rome, and the priests masturbate.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Women, Rome, Bed

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• Unfortunately, I have dedicated great effort to the task of compiling this ‘sensitive words glossary,’ and I have mastered my filtering skills. I knew which words and sentences had to be cut, and I accepted the cutting as if that was the way it should be. In fact, I will often take it on myself to save time and cut a few words. I call this ‘castrated writing’ - I am a proactive eunuch, I have already castrated myself before the surgeon raises his scalpel.

  Murong Xuecun

  Writing, Cutting, Skills

  "Words We Can Use, and Those We Can Not". www.nytimes.com. February 24, 2011.

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• In the name of a greater civilization, we curse those who for the sake of their ambitious dreams, brought about the massacre of so many young lives. No matter how brutal the crime, you will always get glorification of its heroism and tradition from the eunuchs of bourgeois culture.

  Amadeo Bordiga

  Dream, Civilization, Names

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• The German huts, open on every side to the eye of indiscretion or jealousy, were a better safeguard of conjugal fidelity than the walls, the bolts, and the eunuchs of a persian harem. To this reason, another may be added of a more honourable nature. The Germans treated their women with esteem and confidence, consulted them on every occasion of importance, and fondly believed that in their breasts resided a sanctity and wisdom more than human.

  Edward Gibbon

  Wall, Eye, History

  Edward Gibbon, Francis Parkman, William H. Prescott, Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Modern Library Essential World History 4-Book Bundle: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Abridged); Montcalm and Wolfe; History of the Conquest of Mexico; The Naval War of 1812”, p.237, Modern Library

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