Being thrown out of this place is significantly better than being thrown out of a leper colony.
Out of the ugliness of the ironworks lepers will eat, children will be born, their parents will grow old.
Even more than this, however, the sick - like lepers - were often reviled because people believed that they had brought their torments upon themselves.
'Sex and the City' is about outsiders. Single girls as lepers, should have been married by now. It's the reason the whole thing took off.
Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
Miriam: [hesitating as they leave the Valley of the Lepers] I'm afraid. Esther: [embracing her] No cause. The world is more than we know.
I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.
Father Bobby: Listen, I got a story I want to tell you. Young Tommy Marcano: It ain't the one about the lepers, is it? Cause that one gave me nightmares.
Kevin Doyle: [to Eddie about meeting Van Loon] Now be warned - he's mercurial - one minute your best friend, the next you're a leper.
'Sex and The City' was made to correct the myth that if you were single at a certain age, you were a leper. Its four characters are heroes to a lot of women; they run around New York, or Gotham - but they have fancy shoes instead of capes.
Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
The outcast lepers would like to drag everything down in their ruin. And they become all the more evil, the more you cast them out; and the more you depict them as a court of lemurs who want your ruin, the more they will be outcast.
Bearing witness from the sides of the room, ten or more lepers shouted at the bizarre scene, “Diable! Diable!” And then chants of some sort, or prayers, followed by more shouts of “Diable!” They were hurling these words at Moreau like stones.
Those who serve and those who rule Lepers, kings and mindless fools Empire leaders, tyrant's tools All will fade with time Hail the cowards, brave at heart The ugly and the beautiful Those who never felt their souls All live transient lives
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