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- Nov 07, 2020
Blunted Quotes
On feelings, minds, and senses that lose their edge.
These blunted quotes describe emotions and imagination losing their sharpness, whether from years of hardship or the steady influence of a screen. One reflects on how imprisonment can blunt feeling itself, given enough time to adjust to pain.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
If smart phones had been around for women in the 1950s, 'The Feminine Mystique' might never have been written. The depression and ennui of housewives would have been blunted by Pinterest and Facebook.
- Happens
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel differently immediately when I start to put weight on. I don't like that sluggish, blunted disposition that I have when that happens.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies.
- Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was appalled at the amount of study necessary in order to qualify in medicine, and gradually my desire was blunted by a keener - and secret - wish to become an actor.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020