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• Let us simmer over our incalculable cauldron, our enthralling confusion, our hotchpotch of impulses, our perpetual miracle - for the soul throws up wonders every second. Movement and change are the essence of our being; rigidity is death; conformity is death; let us say what comes into our heads, repeat ourselves, contradict ourselves, fling out the wildest nonsense, and follow the most fantastic fancies without caring what the world does or thinks or says. For nothing matters except life.

  Virginia Woolf

  Caring, Thinking, Essence

  Virginia Woolf, Andrew McNeillie (1986). “The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1925-1928”, Chatto & Windus

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• But women are very differently situated with respect to eachother - for they are all rivals (...) Is it then surprising that when the sole ambition of woman centres in beauty, and interest gives vanity additional force, perpetual rivalships should ensue? They are all running the same race, and would rise above the virtue of morals, if they did not view each other with a suspicious and even envious eye.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Running, Ambition, Eye

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• evil labours with vast power and perpetual success - in vain: preparing always only the soil for unexpected good to sprout in.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Faith, Evil, Soil

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.76, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When God's justice falls, we are offended because we think God owes perpetual mercy. We must not take His grace for granted. We must never lose our capacity to be amazed by grace

  R. C. Sproul

  Fall, Thinking, Justice

  R. C. Sproul (2010). “Classic Teachings on the Nature of God”, p.94, Hendrickson Publishers

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• If I convince myself that this life has no other aspect than that of the absurd, if I feel that its whole equilibrium depends on that perpetual opposition between my conscious revolt and the darkness in which it struggles, if I admit that my freedom has no meaning except in relation to its limited fate, then I must say that what counts is not the best living but the most living.

  Albert Camus

  Struggle, Fate, Darkness

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.60, Vintage

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• His eyes were jet-colored circles of perpetual disapproval.

  Gail Carriger

  Eye, Circles, Disapproval

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• There are people in the world for whom "coming along" is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.

  James A. Baldwin

  People, World, Process

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• Anybody who thinks there's nothing wrong with this world needs to have his head examined. Just when things are going all right, without fail someone or something will come along and spoil everything. Somebody should write that down as a fundamental law of the Universe. The principle of perpetual disappointment. If there is a God who created this world, he should scrap it and try again.

  Athol Fugard

  Disappointment, Writing, Thinking

  Athol Fugard (2000). “Port Elizabeth Plays”, p.28, Oxford Paperbacks

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• I should think I'm going to be a perpetual student.

  Anton Chekhov

  Thinking, Students, Should

  Anton Chekhov (2016). “The Cherry Orchard: A Comedy in Four Acts”, p.17, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• For, if we take an examination of what is generally understood by happiness, as it has respect either to the understanding or the senses, we shall find all its properties and adjuncts will herd under this short definition: that it is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.

  Jonathan Swift

  Happiness, Possession, Deceived

  "A Modest Proposal and Other Prose".

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• So she became impulsive, scared by her inaction into perpetual action.

  John Green

  Action, Scared, Impulsive

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.94, Penguin

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• Twitter is the perpetual cocktail party where everyone is talking at once but nobody is saying anything.

  Teresa Medeiros

  Party, Talking, Cocktails

  Teresa Medeiros (2012). “Goodnight Tweetheart”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't know about you, but I practice a disorganized religion. I belong to an unholy disorder. We call ourselves "Our Lady of Perpetual Astonishment."

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Practice, Astonishment, Disorder

  "A Man Without a Country". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 2005.

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• The various elements of truth stand in perpetual antithesis, sometimes requiring us to believe apparent opposites while we wait for the moment when we shall know as we are known.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Believe, Opposites, Waiting

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.41, Fig

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• I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite - only a sense of existence. Well, anything for variety. I am ready to try this for the next ten thousand years, and exhaust it. How sweet to think of! my extremities well charred, and my intellectual part too, so that there is no danger of worm or rot for a long while. My breath is sweet to me. O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Thanksgiving, Running, Sweet

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.373, Penguin

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• War, in its fairest form, implies a perpetual violation of humanity and justice.

  Edward Gibbon

  War, Justice, Humanity

  Edward Gibbon, Francis Parkman, William H. Prescott, Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Modern Library Essential World History 4-Book Bundle: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Abridged); Montcalm and Wolfe; History of the Conquest of Mexico; The Naval War of 1812”, p.871, Modern Library

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• I leave, and the leaving is so exhilarating I know I can never go back. But then what? Do I just keep leaving places, and leaving them, and leaving them, tramping a perpetual journey?

  John Green

  Journey, Leaving, Towns

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.229, A&C Black

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• The two commonest mistakes in judgement ... are, the confounding of shyness with arrogance - a very common mistake indeed - and the not understanding that an obstinate nature exists in a perpetual struggle with itself.

  Charles Dickens

  Mistake, Struggle, Two

  Charles Dickens (2015). “Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail and for Export”, p.2, Jester House Publishing

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• Weird. I rang it three times.” – Nekoda “There might be something with out condo.” ‘Other than the fact that it lived under a perpetual dismal cloud and was infested with roaches the size of his fist. It was probably over a hellmouth, too, that didn’t allot for any kind of reception other than two cans joined by a length string.’ – Nick

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Clouds, Two, Three

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• And along with indifference to space, there was an even more complete indifference to time. "There seems to be plenty of it", was all I would answer when the investigator asked me to say what I felt about time. Plenty of it, but exactly how much was entirely irrelevant. I could, of course, have looked at my watch but my watch I knew was in another universe. My actual experience had been, was still, of an indefinite duration. Or alternatively, of a perpetual present made up of one continually changing apocalypse.

  Aldous Huxley

  Space, Watches, Answers

  Aldous Huxley (2010). “The Doors of Perception: And Heaven and Hell”, p.23, Random House

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• This idea of perpetual happiness is crazy and overrated, because those dark moments fuel you for the next bright moments; each one helps you appreciate the other.

  Brad Pitt

  Crazy, Dark, Ideas

  "The Many Revolutions of Brad Pitt" by Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 25, 2012.

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• She now knew that the death she feared might not be a physical one, that it could be death of the will, the soul, the mind, the laws, and thus not death, but a perpetual dying.

  Joanne Greenberg

  Law, Soul, Mind

  Joanne Greenberg (2004). “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden”, New Amer Library

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• He was struck dumb at the words though he should not be surprised; his wife kept him in a perpetual state of speechlessness.

  Sarah MacLean

  Wife, Dumb, States

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• Abjection is above all ambiguity. Because, while releasing a hold, it does not radically cut off the subject from what threatens it --- on the contrary, abjection acknowledges it to be in perpetual danger.

  Julia Kristeva

  Cutting, Doe, Abjection

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• Spring, if it lingers more than a week beyond its span, starts to hunger for summer to end the days of perpetual promise. Summer in its turn soon begins to sweat for something to quench its heat, and the mellowest of autumns will tire of gentility at last, and ache for a quick sharp frost to kill its fruitfulness. Even winter — the hardest season, the most implacable — dreams, as February creeps on, of the flame that will presently melt it away. Everything tires with time, and starts to seek some opposition, to save it from itself.

  Clive Barker

  Summer, Dream, Spring

  Clive Barker (1991). “The Hellbound Heart”, Voyager

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