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«The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.»
Author: Iris Murdoch
(Novelist, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
absolute, human body, indifference, major, mysteries, particular, substitutes, The Absolute, yearning, yearnings
«Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.»
Author: John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
(Historian)
| Keywords:
absolute, absolutely, absolutes, Absolute Power, corrupting, corrupts, power
«There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.»
«Nothing is more practical than finding God, that is, than falling in a love in a quite absolute, final way. What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination will affect everything. It will decide what will get you out of bed in the mornings, what you will do with your evenings, how you spend your weekends, what you read, who you know, what breaks your heart, and what amazes you with joy and gratitude. Fall in love, stay in love, and it will decide everything.»
«Sing then the core of dark and absolute oblivion where the soul at last is lost in utter peace.»
«Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth»
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
(Writer)
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Work,
World
| Keywords:
absolute, absolute truth, confuse, describe, Point of, point of view, representation, representations, The Absolute, world view
«There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.»
Author: Lewis Carroll
(Logician, Mathematician, Novelist, Photographer)
| Keywords:
absolute, at length, cessation, endure, length, pause, paused, pausing, prostration, the point
«Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| Keywords:
absolute, frustrates, frustrating, good will, ill will, misunderstanding, misunderstandings, People of, shallow
«Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.»
«The question why there is evil in existence is the same as why there is imperfection... But this is the real question we ought to ask: Is this imperfection the final truth, is evil absolute and ultimate?»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Evil,
Questioning
| Keywords:
absolute, final, imperfection, The Question, ultimate
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