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• I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.

  Richard Wagner

  Affection, Longing, Inferiors

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• I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?

  Eugenio Montale

  Ignorance, Men, Thinking

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• The Left Elite only pretend to be concerned about what's best for everyone else because it is the most effective way to manipulate you and your children into their abyss.

  Tammy Bruce

  Children, Way, Manipulation

  Tammy Bruce (2004). “The Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values”, p.195, Crown Forum

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• At times, we forget the magnitude of the havoc we can wreak by off-loading our minds onto super-intelligent machines, that is, until they run away from us, like mad sorcerers' apprentices, and drag us up to the precipice for a look down into the abyss.

  Richard Dooling

  Running, Intelligent, Mad

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• I feel I`ve always been on the outside and always on the edge of an abyss. The women I portray, and the woman I am, are ordinary but maybe find themselves in extra-ordinary circumstances, and what they do is at great cost.

  Susan Sarandon

  Ordinary, Cost, Circumstances

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I admire the Elsie Tanners and Barbara Windsors of the world: people who have crawled back from the abyss. I'm quite camp in that respect.

  Jenny Eclair

  People, World, Admire

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• Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Glasses, Entrepreneur

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• I myself am an absolute abyss.

  Antonin Artaud

  Absolutes

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• I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!

  Victor Hugo

  Art, Soul, Graves

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• We must prepare and study truth under every aspect, endeavoring to ignore nothing, if we do not wish to fall into the abyss of the unknown when the hour shall strike.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Truth, Fall, Wish

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• It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it reminds me of tattered washing on the line; it reminds me of stale bean soup, of college yells, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights. It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it. It drags itself up out of the dark abyss of pish and crawls insanely up the topmost pinnacle of posh. It is rumble and bumble. It is flap and doodle. It is balder and dash.

  H. L. Mencken

  Dog, Humor, Dark

  "On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe". Book by H. L. Mencken, 1956.

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• The older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. I tend to walk a middle ground

  Paula Cole

  Darkness, Zenith, Used

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• The older I get, the more I feel.

  Sharon Olds

  Daughter, Natural Talent, Getting Older

  "Trauma Units" by Stephen Burt, www.nytimes.com. December 15, 2002.

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• Art is what remains of religion: the dance above the yawning abyss.

  Octavio Paz

  Art, Yawning, Remains

  Octavio Paz (1973). “Alternating Current”, p.122, Arcade Publishing

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• And I definitely gravitate toward people who use laughter to pull themselves out of the abyss.

  Lea Thompson

  Laughter, People, Use

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• The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the abyss looks into you. Probably no other line or thought more inspires or informs my work.

  Michael Connelly

  Inspire, Darkness, Looks

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• Something like 'Without a Paddle' does really well at the box office and I'm like, 'Oh, here we go.' In 'Without a Paddle' I'm the romantic lead - great! A comedy and that's what America wants. Then it did nothing for me and I went into kind-of a work abyss. I just didn't get another shot.

  Matthew Lillard

  Romantic, America, Office

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• Poetry is perhaps this: an Atemwende, a turning of our breath. Who knows, perhaps poetry goes its way—the way of art—for the sake of just such a turn? And since the strange, the abyss and Medusa’s head, the abyss and the automaton, all seem to lie in the same direction—is it perhaps this turn, this Atemwende, which can sort out the strange from the strange? It is perhaps here, in this one brief moment, that Medusa’s head shrivels and the automaton runs down? Perhaps, along with the I, estranged and freed here, in this manner, some other thing is also set free?

  Paul Celan

  Running, Art, Lying

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• When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality, they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years. But above this level, far above, separated by an abyss, is the level where the highest things are achieved. These things are essentially anonymous.

  Simone Weil

  Art, Philosophy, Science

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.13, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• When I started off as an actress, I did at a play at the Taper Too Theatre here in Los Angeles, called 'In The Abyss Of Coney Island.' That was more of a dramatic play. It was a small theater house. This was the first time I was literally on the road, doing a play, for four months.

  Vivica Fox

  Islands, Play, House

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. February 17, 2010.

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• What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we cannot cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?

  Thomas Merton

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Moon

  Thomas Merton (2015). “Choosing to Love the World: On Contemplation”, p.35, Sounds True

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• By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed.

  Lewis Mumford

  Success, Science, Men

  "The Conduct Of Life". Book by Lewis Mumford, 1951.

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• Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But they survive, they come to the surface again. And they develop a routine of the abyss: It's four o clock. At five I have my abyss.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Negativity, Despair, Routine

  "The Pure and the Impure". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1932.

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• Love, she thought, must come suddenly, with great outbursts and lightnings,--a hurricane of the skies, which falls upon life, revolutionises it, roots up the will like a leaf, and sweeps the whole heart into the abyss.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Fall, Heart, Sky

  Gustave Flaubert (2015). “Greatest Works of Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary, Senitmental Education, November, A Simple Heart, Herodias and more”, p.89, e-artnow

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• And if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Bird, Ifs

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