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• Will moved to object, but it was too late; Henry had already pressed the button. There was a blinding flare of light and a whooshing sound, and the room was plunged into blackness. Tessa gave a yelp of surprise, and Jem laughed softly. "Am I blind?" Will's voice floated out of the darkness, tinged with annoyance. "I'm not going to be at all pleased if you've blinded me, Henry.

  Cassandra Clare

  Light, Voice, Darkness

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

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• The senator had only one argument in his favour: his feeling. When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. In the realm of kitsch, the dictatorship of the heart reigns supreme.

  Milan Kundera

  Heart, Feelings, Mind

  "Light but sound" by John Banville, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2004.

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• Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

  Ann Radcliffe

  Love, Real, Relapse

  Ann Radcliffe (1998). “The Mysteries of Udolpho”, p.317, OUP Oxford

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• The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.

  Gore Vidal

  Gay, Lgbt Pride, Important

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• I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves - this critical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty. The ideals that have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. Without the sense of kinship with men of like mind, without the occupation with the objective world, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific endeavors, life would have seemed empty to me. The trite objects of human efforts - possessions, outward success, luxury - have always seemed to me contemptible.

  Albert Einstein

  Art, Kindness, Men

  "Mein Weltbild". Book by Albert Einstein, 1931.

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• All of her heart, a meaningless phrase, but correct and precise, too. She used her heart to love him, not her head, and not her words and not her thoughts or ideas or feelings or any other vehicle or object or device people use to deliver love or love-like things.

  Charles Yu

  Heart, Ideas, People

  Charles Yu (2010). “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel”, p.124, Vintage

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• The memory of an absent person shines in the deepest recesses of the heart, shining the more brightly the more wholly its object has vanished: a light on the horizon of the despairing, darkened spirit; a star gleaming in our inward night.

  Victor Hugo

  Stars, Memories, Heart

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• The technique of a great seducer requires a facility and an indifference in passing from one object of affection to another which I could never have; however that may be, my loves have left me more often than I have left them, for I have never been able to understand how one could have enough of any beloved. The desire to count up exactly the riches which each new love brings us, and to see it change, and perhaps watch it grow old, accords ill with multiplicity of conquests.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Desire, Technique, Watches

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• As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

  Virginia Woolf

  Men, Thinking, Long

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.530, Wordsworth Editions

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• The loss of quality that is so evident at every level of spectacular language, from the objects it glorifies to the behavior it regulates, stems from the basic nature of a production system that shuns reality. The commodity form reduces everything to quantitative equivalence. The quantitative is what it develops, and it can develop only within the quantitative.

  Guy Debord

  Loss, Reality, Quality

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• As long as human labor power, and, consequently, life itself, remain articles of sale and purchase, of exploitation and robbery, the principle of the “sacredness of human life” remains a shameful lie, uttered with the object of keeping the oppressed slaves in their chains.

  Leon Trotsky

  Lying, Long, Principles

  Leon Trotsky, Slavoj Žižek, Henry Noel Brailsford (2007). “Terrorism and communism: a reply to Karl Kautsky”, Verso Books

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• The great object of life is Sensation - to feel that we exist - even though in pain - it is this "craving void" which drives us to gaming - to battle - to travel - to intemperate but keenly felt pursuits of every description whose principal attraction is the agitation inseparable from their accomplishment.

  Lord Byron

  Pain, Accomplishment, Battle

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• You live by yourself for a stretch of time and you get to staring at different objects. Sometimes you talk to yourself. You take meals in crowded joints. You develop an intimate relationship with your used Subaru. You slowly but surely become a has-been.

  Haruki Murakami

  Intimate Relationships, Meals, Different

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Dance Dance Dance”, p.31, Random House

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• It is wrong to turn a man (a subject) into a thing (an object). By means of spiritual dialogue, the I-It relationship becomes an I-Thou relationship. God comes and goes in man's soul. And men come and go in each other's souls. Sometimes they come and go in each other's beds, too.

  Saul Bellow

  Spiritual, Mean, Men

  Saul Bellow (1976). “Herzog”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Love Is, What Matters, Grace

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.209, Macmillan

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• I was just wondering why you stabbed him. Not that I object.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Twilight, Wonder, Twilight Edward

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a meaning to an infinite number of objects. The world comes to a stop, but also lights up.

  Albert Camus

  Light, Essence, Ideas

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.45, Vintage

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• There is no right to deny freedom to any object with a mind advanced enough to grasp the concept and desire the state. -(from "The Bicentennial Man) story)

  Isaac Asimov

  Men, Mind, Desire

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• Childhood romances always seem so real, so enduring, when we are separated from the object of our affection. But usually, when we return, we find that our dreams and memories quiet surpassed reality. -Lady Anne, Whitney's aunt

  Judith McNaught

  Dream, Memories, Real

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• Human beings must love something, and, in the dearth of worthier objects of affection, I contrived to find a pleasure in loving and cherishing a faded graven image, shabby as a miniature scarecrow. It puzzles me now to remember with what absurd sincerity I doated on this little toy, half fancying it alive and capable of sensation. I could not sleep unless it was folded in my night-gown; and when it lay there safe and warm, I was comparatively happy, believing it to be happy likewise.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Believe, Sleep, Night

  Charlotte Bronte (2014). “The Complete Works Of Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette, and The Professor”, p.41, Harper Collins

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• There are characters which are continually creating collisions and nodes for themselves in dramas which nobody is prepared to act with them. Their susceptibilities will clash against objects that remain innocently quiet.

  George Eliot

  Drama, Character, Creating

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.210, Booklassic

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• Sometimes we just walk into something that is not for us at all. We pretend it is. We think we can shrug it off like a coat, but it's not a coat at all, it's more like another skin. [...] All I wanted was to make my life thrilling for a while: to take the oridinary objects of my days and make a different argument out of them, no obligations to my past.

  Colum McCann

  Past, Thinking, Skins

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• The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, New Year, Eye

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• I know that sometimes people fake on each other out of genuine motives to hold onto the object of their tenderest feelings. They see themselves as so inadequate that they feel forced to wear a mask in order to continuously impress the other. I do not want to "hold" you, I want you to "stay" out of your own need for me.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Order, People, Fake

  ELDRIDGE CLEAVER (1968). “SOUL ON ICE”

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• Each new thing he encountered in life impelled him in a direction that fully convinced him of its rightness, but then the next new thing loomed up and impelled him in the opposite direction, which also felt right. There was no controlling narrative: he seemed to himself a purely reactive pinball in a game whose only object was to stay alive for staying alive's sake.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Opposites, Games, Alive

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