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• I wonder if you encountered this dictum first spoken by a twentieth-century statesman: "An abyss cannot be crossed in two steps.

  David Mitchell

  Two, Firsts, Steps

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.330, Random House Group

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• I don't find inspiration on Wall Street. I don't find that in Beverly Hills. I don't find that in places where opportunity resides unbridled, and I think the real creative energy and the real juice is in where people are caught, in the economic abyss.

  Harry Belafonte

  Wall, Real, Inspiration

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss. I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy. I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.

  Charles Dickens

  Beautiful, Heart, Cities

  'A Tale of Two Cities' (1859) bk. 3, ch. 15 (Sydney Carton's thoughts on the scaffold)

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• Many women don’t know what orgasm is. Many men don’t know was total orgasm is. Many only achieve a local orgasm, a genital orgasm; it is confined to the genitals. Just a small ripple in the genitals-and finished. It is not like possession when the whole body moves into a whirlpool and you are lost in the abyss. For a few moments time stops and the mind does not function. For a few moments you do not know who you are. Then it is a total orgasm.

  Rajneesh

  Moving, Men, Mind

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• KILL ME!" And then Newt's eyes cleared, as if he'd gained one last trembling gasp of sanity, and his voice softened. "Please, Tommy. Please." With his heart falling into a black abyss, Thomas pulled the trigger.

  James Dashner

  Fall, Heart, Eye

  James Dashner (2013). “Maze Runner 3: The Death Cure”, p.191, Chicken House

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• Farewell sweet earth and northern sky, for ever blest, since here did lie and here with lissom limbs did run beneath the Moon, beneath the Sun, Lúthien Tinúviel more fair than Mortal tongue can tell. Though all to ruin fell the world and were dissolved and backward hurled; unmade into the old abyss, yet were its making good, for this - the dusk, the dawn, the earth, the sea - that Lúthien for a time should be.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Running, Sweet, Lying

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• Let him who cannot be alone beware of community... Let him who is not in community beware of being alone... Each by itself has profound perils and pitfalls. One who wants fellowship without solitude plunges into the void of words and feelings, and the one who seeks solitude without fellowship perishes in the abyss of vanity, self-infatuation and despair.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Vanity, Self, Profound

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.58, SCM Press

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• She felt as if the world were tilting and she was clinging on helplessly, trying to keep from tumbling into a black abyss.

  Cassandra Clare

  Black, Trying, Tumbling

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.212, Simon and Schuster

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• The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Distance, Night, Discovery

  "Noces". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1945.

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• 'WHEN two lovers are making love, and if they are both no-selves, nothingness, then a spontaneous pleasurable sensation happens. Then their body energy, their whole being, loses all identity; they are no more themselves - they have fallen into abyss. But this can happen only for a moment: again they regain, again they start clinging. That's why people become afraid in love.'

  Rajneesh

  Love, Self, Two

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• I believe that were it not for the Holy Mass, as of this moment the world would be in the abyss.

  Leonard of Port Maurice

  Believe, Catholic, Would Be

  St. Leonard of Port Maurice “Sacred Treasures of the Mass”, Lulu.com

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• It doesn't require much for misfortune to strike in the King's Gambit - one incautious move, and Black can be on the edge of the abyss.

  Anatoly Karpov

  Kings, Moving, Black

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• We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us from seeing it.

  Blaise Pascal

  Running, Seeing, Fronts

  Blaise Pascal (2008). “Human Happiness”, Penguin Group USA

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• There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Loneliness, Allies, Isolation

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.204, Simon and Schuster

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• Adam became so proud that he wished to become God and died for his pride; the Son of God humbled Himself unto death, and gave life to the fallen. O abyss of humility! Adam and Eve lost themselves through gluttony, the Lord fasted and died for them, in order to give them life. They were disobedient, Christ fulfilled obedience.

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Humility, Pride

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• Into this wild abyss, The womb of Nature and perhaps her grave.

  John Milton

  Nature, Graves, Womb

  John Milton (1801). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With the Principal Notes of Various Commentators. To which are Added Illustrations, with Some Account of the Life of Milton”, p.160

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• I say to my breath once again, little breath come from in front of me, go away behind me, row me quietly now, as far as you can, for I am an abyss that I am trying to cross.

  W. S. Merwin

  Going Away, Trying, Littles

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• Everything, alas, is an abyss, — actions, desires, dreams, words!

  Charles Baudelaire

  Dream, Desire, Action

  "Le Gouffre". Poem by Charles Baudelaire, 1862.

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• Research is necessary. However, you need to make sure you don't fall into its trap. You need to have time left for writing. To avoid the trap, I just throw myself into the abyss while at the same time being aware that if I'm dealing with information I don't know enough about, I have to go to someone and talk about it.

  Jaume Cabre

  Fall, Writing, Enough

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• STARING INTO THE ABYSS by Richard Thomas is an outstanding book, a grim tapestry of broken lives and shattered dreams, of dark fantasies and dark reflections. It's one of the better single-author collections I've had the pleasure to read in recent years, and as such, gets my highest recommendation. It's also a fine testament to a talent I suspect we are going to be hearing a lot more from, and soon.

  Kealan Patrick Burke

  Dream, Book, Dark

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• I am not surprised that there are gambling houses, like so many snares laid for human avarice; like abysses where many a man's money is engulfed and swallowed up without any hope of return; like frightful rocks against which the gamblers are thrown and perish.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Gambling, Rocks

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• Men's private self-worlds are rather like our geographical world's seasons, storm, and sun, deserts, oases, mountains and abysses, the endless-seeming plateaus, darkness and light, and always the sowing and the reaping.

  Faith Baldwin

  Men, Light, Oasis

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• I had no problem working for 15 hours straight when I was producing someone else, but I couldn't do it with my own songs. It took that moment of pointing the camera at myself to realize that it was okay to get lost in making my own music. I think before that I was scared of pushing myself to the point of staring into the abyss.

  Rostam Batmanglij

  Song, Thinking, Scared

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman-a rope over an abyss. A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Animal, Men, Rope

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel”, p.22, e-artnow

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• For it is only in accepting death that one can truly live, and for the human animal, death has always been the great black beast from the abyss to be dreaded or defeated or avoided or hated - but never looked upon clearly face to face.

  David Zindell

  Animal, Black, Faces

  "The Wild". Book by David Zindell, 1995.

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