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• Before I met No I thought that violence meant shouting and hitting and war and blood. Now I know that there can also be violence in silence and that it’s sometimes invisible to the naked eye. There’s violence in the time that conceals wounds, the relentless succession of days, the impossibility of turning back the clock. Violence is what escapes us. It’s silent and hidden. Violence is what remains inexplicable, what stays forever opaque.

  Delphine de Vigan

  War, Eye, Blood

  Delphine de Vigan (2010). “No and Me”, p.156, A&C Black

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• the impossibility of being human all too human this breathing in and out out and in these punks these cowards these champions these mad dogs of glory moving this little bit of light toward us impossibly.

  Charles Bukowski

  Dog, Moving, Light

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “You Get So Alone at Times”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• The highest place was given to Him, who died on the cross, far above all principality and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named. There He is now the Man in the Glory. Once more let me state it, the Lord Jesus Christ is corporeally present in the highest heaven. Everything depends on this. If His physical resurrection and corporeal presence in the highest heaven is denied, His present work and future work are an impossibility, and we rob ourselves of every comfort joy and peace. Then, too, His atoning work on the cross has no meaning for us.

  Arno C. Gaebelein

  Jesus, Men, Names

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• Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Positive, Strength

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• Todays impossibilities are tomorrows miracles.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Miracle, Today, Tomorrow

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• A crime against god is a demonstrated impossibility.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Prison, Crime

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1218, Library of Alexandria

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• The discouragement masquerades as the impossibility.

  Diane Arbus

  Discouragement, Masquerade

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• Venice Beach: proof of the biological impossibility of imagining a person being simultaneously good-looking and poor.

  Douglas Coupland

  Beach, Venice, Looking Good

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• When you do your best, there is no impossibility.

  Nonito Donaire

  Motivation, Fighter

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• You will free yourself from the cumbersome impossibilities of needing to control the world, your friends, your mate, your children.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Children, Law Of Attraction, World

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• The depressed person was in terrible and unceasing pain, and the impossibility of sharing or articulating this pain was itself a component of the pain and a contributing factor in its essential horror.

  David Foster Wallace

  Pain, Depressed Person, Essentials

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• Impossibility never prevented anything from happening.

  Errico Malatesta

  Happenings

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• The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever after you are freer than you ever were before. . . . You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Thinking, Forever, Looks

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• These things are difficulties, not impossibilities. -- Macon

  Margaret Stohl

  Difficulty

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• Our relationship couldn't continue to balance, as it did, on the point of a knife. We would fall off one edge or the other, depending entirely upon his decision, or his instincts. My decision was made, made before I'd ever consciously chosen, and I was committed to seeing it through. Because there was nothing more terrifying to me, more excruciating, than the thought of turning away from him. It was an impossibility.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Fall, Knives, Decision

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• I always speak the truth. Not the whole truth, because there's no way, to say it all. Saying it all is literally impossible: words fail. Yet it's through this very impossibility that the truth holds onto the real.

  Jacques Lacan

  Real, Way, Impossible

  "The Truth Was Always Revolutionary": Luc Rioual on Laurent Binet's The Seventh Function of Language", logger.believermag.com. August 11, 2017.

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• Based on the law of probability Everything is possible because The sheer existence of possibility Confirms the existence Of impossibility.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Law, Possibility, Existence

  "Understanding". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic,

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• Thoroughly convinced of the impossibility of his own suit, a high resolve constrained him not to injure that of another. This is a lover's most stoical virtue, as the lack of it is a lover's most venial sin.

  Thomas Hardy

  Suits, Lovers, Sin

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD (British Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel”, p.130, e-artnow

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• You are not supposed to get it. It's a paradox. All of mathematics is built on paradoxes. That's the biggest paradox of all-all this orderliness, and at the heart, impossibility. Contradiction. Heaven built on the foundations of hell.

  David Leavitt

  Heart, Science, Heaven

  David Leavitt (2009). “The Indian Clerk”, p.225, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• When I was small child, all that belonged to conservative society was fashionable, and no republicans were welcome in the smartersalons. People living in such a milieu could imagine that the impossibility of ever inviting an "opportunist", much less a "radical", was a thing that would last forever, like gas lamps and horse-drawn omnibuses. But similar to kaleidoscopes turning from time to time, society successively places in various ways elements which were thought to be immutable and creates a new composition.

  Marcel Proust

  Fashion, Horse, Children

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• 1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. 2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. 3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Past, Technology, Impossible Things

  Profiles of the Future ch. 2 (1962).

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• The crows maintain that a single crow could destroy the heavens. There is no doubt of that, but it proves nothing against the heavens, for heaven simply means: the impossibility of crows.

  Franz Kafka

  Mean, Heaven, Doubt

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• What is impossible by the nature of things is not confirmed by any law.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Nature, Law, Impossible

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• I picked up the Bible and read it from cover to cover one weekend - just as if it were a novel - very rapidly, and I've never gotten over the shock of it. The miracles, the inconsistencies, the improbabilities, the impossibilities, the wretched history, the sordid sex, the sadism in it - the whole thing shocked me profoundly.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Bible, Sex, Weekend

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• So long as untouchability disfigures Hinduism, so long do I hold the attainment of Swaraj to be an utter impossibility.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Long, Hinduism, Untouchability

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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