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1 " How could the human mind progress, while tormented with frightful phantoms, and guided by men, interested in perpetuating its ignorance and fears? Man has been forced to vegetate in his primitive stupidity: he has been taught stories about invisible powers upon whom his happiness was supposed to depend. Occupied solely by his fears, and by unintelligible reveries, he has always been at the mercy of priests, who have reserved to themselves the right of thinking for him, and of directing his actions. "
2 " Love will not come to me again. I’ll vegetate like a plant in a cellar, without light. "
― Eliza Granville , Gretel and the Dark
3 " Most men are satisfied if they read or hear read, and perchance have been convicted by the wisdom of one good book, the Bible, and for the rest of their lives vegetate and dissipate their faculties in what is called easy reading. "
― Henry David Thoreau , Walden
4 " If you would be known and not know vegetate in a village if you would know and not be known live in a city. "
