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• I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused, whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, and the round ocean, and the living air, and the blue sky, and in the mind of man.

  William Wordsworth

  Life, Ocean, Men

  'Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey' (1798) l. 88

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• In all legends men have thought of women as sublime separately but horrible in a herd.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Legends, Herds

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• To bring the sublime into the mundane is the greatest challenge there is.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Challenges, Wonder, Mundane

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• Real humanity presents a mixture of all that is most sublime and beautiful with all that is vilest and most monstrous in the world.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Beautiful, Real, Humanity

  Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin “The Selected Works of Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin”, Library of Alexandria

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• We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea and to be thrilled with a rose that is bedecked with dew… Human beings are actually created for the transcendent, for the sublime, for the beautiful, for the truthful... and all of us are given the task of trying to make this world a little more hospitable to these beautiful things.

  Desmond Tutu

  Beauty, Beautiful, Sunset

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• For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Prayer, Mean, Men

  Alexandre Dumas (2003). “The Count of Monte Cristo”, p.41, Bantam Classics

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• A friend to kill time is a friend sublime.

  Haruki Murakami

  "A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel". Book by Haruki Murakami, December 31, 1989.

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• Along with the joy of parenthood, with every child comes a piercing vulnerability. It is at once sublime and terrifying

  David Sheff

  Children, Joy, Piercings

  David Sheff (2009). “Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There are some situations which men understand by instinct, by which reason is powerless to explain; in such cases the greatest poet is he who gives utterance to the most natural and vehement outburst of sorrow. Those who hear the bitter cry are as much impressed as if they listened to an entire poem, and when th sufferer is sincere they are right in regarding his outburst as sublime.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Sympathy, Men, Giving

  Alexandre Dumas (2015). “THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO: Classic French Literature”, p.912, 谷月社

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• Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime, but suicide is restricted, and does not allow of extension; and so soon as it affects your neighbors, suicide becomes murder.

  Victor Hugo

  Suicide, Doe, Murder

  Victor Hugo, Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry Llewellyn William, Frederick Lokes Slous, Mrs. Camilla Dufour (Toulmin) " Crosland (Newton Crosland, ") (1907*). “Les misérables, book 5. Hans of Iceland”

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• And who ever said the world was fair, little lady? Maybe death is fair, but certainly not life. We must accept the unfairness as proof of the sublime flux of existence, the capricious music of the universe- and go on about our tasks

  Tom Robbins

  Tasks, Goes On, World

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• He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo. Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic. Nothing is more sublime.

  Victor Hugo

  Paris, Depth, Fantastic

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• There is something inspiring and sublime about the little forget-me-not flower. I hope it will be a symbol of the little things that make your lives joyful and sweet.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Sweet, Flower, Littles

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• Poetry is only the highest eloquence of passion, the most vivid form of expression that can be given to our conception of anything, whether pleasurable or painful, mean or dignified, delightful or distressing. It is the perfect coincidence of the image and the words with the feeling we have, and of which we cannot get rid in any other way, that gives an instant "satisfaction to the thought." This is equally the origin of wit and fancy, of comedy and tragedy, of the sublime and pathetic.

  William Hazlitt

  Mean, Passion, Writing

  William Hazlitt (1845). “Lectures on the English Poets”, p.9

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• Movies always fascinated me. They are an endless source of inspiration. There are countless images by great directors that made a profound impression on me, and I see film as a sublime example of teamwork.

  Giorgio Armani

  Teamwork, Inspiration, Profound

  Interview with Daniela Morera, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 21, 2008.

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• No, let us not make God in our image, poor inhabitants that we are of a distant planet lost in infinite space. However brilliant and sublime our intelligence may be, it is scarcely more than a small spark which shines and in an instant is extinguished, and it alone can give us no idea of that blaze, that conflagration, that ocean of light!

  Jose Rizal

  Ocean, Light, Ideas

  Letter to Fr. Pastells, April 04, 1893.

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• When a warrior fights not for himself, but for his brothers, when his most passionately sought goal is neither glory nor his own life's preservation, but to spend his substance for them, his comrades, not to abandon them, not to prove unworthy of them, then his heart truly has achieved contempt for death, and with that he transcends himself and his actions touch the sublime. That is why the true warrior cannot speak of battle save to his brothers who have been there with him. The truth is too holy, too sacred, for words." -Suicide (Gates of Fire)

  Steven Pressfield

  Suicide, Brother, Heart

  Steven Pressfield (1999). “Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae”, Bantam

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• I like fashion, whether or not it's overpriced, because it creates a sense of the sublime with relatively few means.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Fashion, Mean

  "'Evil Can also Be Beautiful'". Interview with Matthias Matussek and Joachim Kronsbein, www.spiegel.de. March 27, 2006.

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• Sublime wonders lie in store,I am shown a regal residence;a mighty kingdom, an empirewith more grandeur than before.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Lying, Kingdoms, Wonder

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• The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Bible, Religious, Literature

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• in prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning of the sublime language in which he invokes the pity of heaven!

  Alexandre Dumas

  Prayer, Heaven, Unhappy

  Alexandre Dumas (2016). “The Count Of Monte Cristo (Illustrated Edition of the Adventure Classic): Historical Thriller from the renowned French writer, known for The Three Musketeers, The Black Tulip, Twenty Years After, La Reine Margot and The Man in the Iron Mask”, p.158, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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• How great are the advantages of solitude! How sublime is the silence of nature's ever-active energies! There is something in the very name of wilderness, which charms the ear, and soothes the spirit of man. There is religion in it.

  Estwick Evans

  Men, Names, Silence

  Estwick EVANS (1819). “A Pedestrian Tour of four thousand miles throught the Western States and Territories during the winter and spring of 1818. Interspersed with Reflections”, p.102

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• Capturing the beauty of the conversion of the water into wine, the poet Alexander Pope said, "The conscious water saw its Master and blushed." That sublime description could be reworked to explain each one of these miracles. Was it any different in principle for a broken body to mend at the command of its Maker? Was it far-fetched for the Creator of the universe, who fashioned matter out of nothing, to multiply bread for the crowd? Was it not within the power of the One who called all the molecules into existence to interlock them that they might bear His footsteps?

  Ravi Zacharias

  Wine, Water, Broken

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• The habits of craft, developed day in and day out over a working lifetime, create moments of astonishment, sublime and magical effects, precisely because the writer is not thinking overtly about making art.

  Philip Gerard

  Art, Writing, Thinking

  Philip Gerard (2000). “Writing a Book That Makes a Difference”, Story Press

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• I don’t eat meat because meat brings out negative qualities such as fear, anger, anxiety, aggressiveness, etc. Vegetables peacefully offer themselves to the earth when ripe, thus allowing a sublime and peaceful thought-conscio usness

  Carlos Santana

  Vegetables, Anxiety, Peaceful

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