Absolutes Quotes - Page 16

• This expression of abandon and surrender, of absolute trust, he reserved for the master alone.

  Jack London

  Expression, Surrender, Masters

  Jack London, JACK LONDON (2015). “White Fang (Arcadia Classics)”, p.176, Jack London

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• There is no pretending," Jace said with absolute clarity. "I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then.

  Cassandra Clare

  Romantic, Love You, Forbidden Love

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “City of Glass”, p.331, Simon and Schuster

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• [Y]ou can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil.

  Tim O'Brien

  War, Evil, Stories

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.66, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I began to wonder whether anything truly existed, whether reality wasn't an unformed and gelatinous substance only half-captured by my senses....If that were true, each of us was living in absolute isolation. The thought terrified me. I was consoled by the idea that I could take that gelatin and mold it to create anything I wanted...At times I felt that the universe fabricated from the power of the imagination had stronger and more lasting contours than the blurred realm of the flesh-and-blood creatures around me.

  Isabel Allende

  Reality, Ideas, Blood

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• I began dividing life in absolutes... Things and people were either perfectly bad, or perfectly good, and when life didn't obey this black-and-white rule, when things or people were complex or contradictory, I pretended otherwise. I turned every defeat into a disaster, every success into an epic triumph, and separated all people into heroes or villains. Unable to bear ambiguity, I built a barricade of delusions against it.

  J. R. Moehringer

  Hero, Black And White, Epic

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• Jeremy Corbyn couldn't have won without Labour changing its leadership election rules in 2014, but which more importantly got rid of the electoral college that had given MPs a third of the say over who leads the party. That's why Diane Abbott came last when she ran for leader in 2010, even though in the absolute number of votes she came third out of five. It's one of those wonderful historical ironies that the change to the rules was a victory for the Labour right, the result of a push back against the unions who had been asserting themselves more forcefully within the party.

  Alex Nunns

  Party, College, Mps

  Source: salvage.zone

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• The mountains were his masters. They rimmed in life. They were the cup of reality, beyond growth, beyond struggle and death. They were his absolute unity in the midst of eternal change.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Struggle, Reality, Unity

  Thomas Wolfe (2006). “Look Homeward, Angel”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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• Truth, justice...I always thought they were absolutes, like God. And Mom. And apple pie. But you could make apple pie from Ritz crackers. You could make cakes without sugar. We learned how to fake things, during the war.

  Judy Blundell

  Mom, War, Cake

  Judy Blundell (2010). “What I Saw And How I Lied”, p.249, Scholastic Inc.

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• There is truth, my boy. But the doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should you long for a perfect doctrine, my friend. Rather, you should long for the perfection of yourself. The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.

  Hermann Hesse

  Book, Boys, Ideas

  Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.83, Macmillan

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• Often I hear people say they do not have time to read. That's absolute nonsense. If one really wants to learn, one has to decide what is important. Spending an evening on the town? Attending a ball game? Or learning something that can be with you your life long.

  Louis L'Amour

  Games, Long, People

  Louis L'Amour (2008). “Education of a Wandering Man”, p.11, Bantam

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• I wish i could tell you that through the tragedy i mined some undiscovered, life-altering absolute that i could pass on to you.I didn't.The cliches apply-people are what count,life is precious,materialism is over rated, and the little things matter,live in the moment-and i can repeat them to you ad nauseam.you might listen, but you won't internalize.Tragedy hammers it hm.Tragedy etches into your soul.You might not be happier.But you will be better.

  Harlan Coben

  People, Soul, Live In The Moment

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• Who wants a bag of bones?” he said, with absolute sincerity. “I don’t want to hurt myself on the sharp edges of the woman I’m bedding.

  Charlaine Harris

  Hurt, Bags, Want

  Charlaine Harris (2010). “Dead in the Family: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.146, Penguin

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• His whole life was now summed up in two words: absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog.

  Victor Hugo

  Fog, Two, Whole Life

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.2957, Delphi Classics

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• The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.

  Dan Simmons

  Ignorance, Routes

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.1816, Spectra

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• Instead of answering her as soon as he saw her hair grow electric, her face more vivid, her eyes like lightning, her body restless and jerky like a racehorse’s, he retired behind this wall of objective understanding, this gentle testing and acceptance of her, just as one watches an animal in the zoo and smiles at his antics, but is not drawn into this mood. It was this which left Lilith in a state of isolation - indeed, like a wild animal in an absolute desert.

  Anais Nin

  Zoos, Wall, Eye

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• I've always been a very restless person. I work hard, spend too much time looking after my son, I dance like a mad thing, I learned calligraphy. I go to courses on selling, I read one book after another. But that's all a way of avoiding those moments when nothing is happening, because those blank spaces give me a feeling of absolute emptiness, in which not a single crumb of love exists.

  Paulo Coelho

  Book, Hard Work, Son

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• In this world, there is no absolute good, no absolute evil," the man said. "Good and evil are not fixed, stable entities, but are continually trading places. A good may be transformed into an evil in the next second. And vice versa. Such was the way of the world that Dostoevsky depicted in The Brothers Karamazov. The most important thing is to maintain the balance between the constantly moving good and evil. If you lean too much in either direction, it becomes difficult to maintain actual morals. Indeed, balance itself is the good.

  Haruki Murakami

  Brother, Moving, Men

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• My desires are foolish. The things I want are better kept to myself. The hand of silence is steady. The hard blade of silence is clean like night. The code is absolute. Silence is eternal and patient. Silence never makes a fool of itself like I have so many times.

  Henry Rollins

  Night, Hands, Silence

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• The greatest weapon any warrior can carry into battle is absolute certainty of her eternal soul.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Warrior, Soul, Battle

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• No power was total, no power permanent, no power absolute.

  Justina Chen

  Permanent

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• As a young man with most of my life ahead of me, I decided early to give my life to something eternal and absolute. Not to these little gods that are here today and gone tomorrow. But to God who is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, Yesterday, Giving

  "Rediscovering Lost Values". Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Sermon at Detroit's Second Baptist Church, kinginstitute.stanford.edu. February 28, 1954.

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• My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom--freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter how the last two manifest themselves.

  Anton Chekhov

  Inspiration, Two, Body

  Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1974). “Letters of Anton Chekhov”, Jonathan Cape

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• You'll learn, honey. Love can be the best thing in life. And it can be the worst. The absolute worst.

  Clive Barker

  Things In Life, Honey, Being The Best

  Clive Barker (2011). “Abarat”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  And Love, Irony, Pathology

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL - Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future: The Critique of the Traditional Morality and the Philosophy of the Past”, p.53, e-artnow

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• I dared, for the first and last time in my life, to express a theological conclusion: "But how can a necessary being exist totally polluted with the possible? What difference is there, then, between God and primogenial chaos? Isn't affirming God's absolute omnipotence and His absolute freedom with regard to His own choices tantamount to demonstrating that God does not exist?

  Umberto Eco

  Omnipotence, Differences, Choices

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