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How, then, does the written word work? What part of a reader absorbs it - or should that be a double question: what part of a reader absorbs what part of a text? I think that underneath, or alongside, a reader's conscious response to a text, whatever is needy in him is taking in whatever the text offers to assuage that need.

Diana Athill
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Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?

Arthur Erickson
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Faith assuages guides restores.

Arthur Rimbaud
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I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

Arthur Schopenhauer
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There’s a pressure at all hours of the day only a poem can assuage.

Kristen Henderson, Drum Machine
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Our children cannot be assumed to follow in our footsteps, assuage our losses, or compensate for our inadequacies.

Madeline Levine, The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids
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There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed.

Horace
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Perhaps our imagination needs crime stories to fulfill some craving we have, as a way to assuage a darkness in ourselves.

James Nesbitt
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The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.

Max Beerbohm
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It is very much in the interest of the food industry to exacerbate our anxieties about what to eat, the better to then assuage them with new products.

Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
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