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• we seem determined to give human qualities to objects and content to treat each other as things.

  Sherry Turkle

  Giving, Quality, Determined

  Sherry Turkle (2011). “Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other”, p.14, Basic Books

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• In my mind, President Snow should be viewed in front of marble pillars hung with oversized flags. It's jarring to see him surrounded by the ordinary objects in the room. Like taking the lid off a pot and finding a fanged viper instead of stew.

  Suzanne Collins

  President Snow, Mind, Ordinary

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.18, Scholastic Inc.

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• I began peering into the corners of the room, making sure all the shadows were cast by objects and obeying known laws of physics.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Law, Shadow, Rooms

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.69, Dell

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• I don't know many rules to live by,' he'd said. 'But here's one. It's simple. Don't put anything unnecessary into yourself. No poisons or chemicals, no fumes or smoke or alcohol, no sharp objects, no inessential needles--drug or tattoo--and...no inessential penises either.' 'Inessential penises?' Karou had repeated, delighted with the phrase in spite of her grief. 'Is there any such thing as an essential one?' 'When an essential one comes along, you'll know,' he'd replied.

  Laini Taylor

  Tattoo, Grief, Simple

  Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.21, Hachette UK

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• In a world full of danger, to be a potentially seeable object is to be constantly exposed to danger. Self-consciousness, then, may be the apprehensive awareness of oneself as potentially exposed to danger by the simple fact of being visible to others. The obvious defence against such a danger is to make oneself invisible in one way or another.

  R. D. Laing

  Simple, Self, World

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• Stories are artifacts, not really made things which we create and can take credit for, but pre-existing objects which we dig up.

  Stephen King

  Stories, Credit, Made

  Stephen King (2007). “Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales”, p.211, Simon and Schuster

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• What a blessing it is to love books. Everybody must love something, and I know of no objects of love that give such substantial and unfailing returns as books and a garden.

  Elizabeth von Arnim

  Educational, Book, Healing

  Elizabeth von Arnim (2016). “The Solitary Summer”, p.16, Elizabeth von Arnim

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• ...my boredom might be described as a malady affecting external objects and consisting of a withering process; an almost instantaneous loss of vitality--just as though one saw a flower change in a few seconds from a bud to decay and dust.

  Alberto Moravia

  Flower, Loss, Dust

  Alberto Moravia (2011). “Boredom”, p.5, New York Review of Books

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• I had a microscopic eye for the blemish, for the grain of ugliness which to me constituted the sole beauty of the object.

  Henry Miller

  Eye, Sole, Grain

  Henry Miller (1961). “Tropic of Capricorn”, Grove/Atlantic

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• A tiny dark object came sailing out of the window and landed at the giant's feet. Polybotes yelled, "Grenade!" He covered his face. His troops hit the ground. When the thing did not explode, Polybotes bent down cautiously and picked it up. He roared in outrage. "A Ding Dong? You dare insult me with a Ding Dong?" He threw the cake back at the shop, and it vaporized in the light.

  Rick Riordan

  Dark, Feet, Light

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• And if you had no tongue, no celebrating language, you’d do this: cross your hands at the wrist with palms facing towards you; place your crossed wrists over your heart (the middle of your chest, anyway); then move your hands outwards a short distance, and open them towards the object of your love. It’s just as eloquent as speech.

  Julian Barnes

  Love, Distance, Moving

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• The mind which is created quick to love, is responsive to everything that is pleasing, soon as by pleasure it is awakened into activity. Your apprehensive faculty draws an impression from a real object, and unfolds it within you, so that it makes the mind turn thereto. And if, being turned, it inclines towards it, that inclination is love; that is nature, which through pleasure is bound anew within you.

  Dante Alighieri

  Real, Love Is, Mind

  Dante Alighieri (2013). “The Divine Comedy: The Unabridged Classic”, p.294, Vintage

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• A person's rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.

  Pope John Paul II

  Use, Treated, Persons

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• Such a small, pure object a poem could be, made of nothing but air a tiny string of letters, maybe small enough to fit in the palm of your hand. But it could blow everybody's head off.

  Mary Karr

  Blow, Air, Hands

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• A baboon in a forest is a matter of legitimate speculation; a baboon in a zoo is an object of public curiosity; but a baboon in your wife’s bed is a cause of the gravest concern.

  Winston Churchill

  Zoos, Wife, Curiosity

  Sir Winston Churchill (1966). “Irrepressible Churchill: a treasury of Winston Churchill's wit”

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• Oh, 'tis not my qualities they object to! 'Tis my lack of vice.

  Georgette Heyer

  Quality, Vices

  Georgette Heyer (2011). “Powder And Patch”, p.44, Random House

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• ...but it was death that changed. People are still people. Some good, some bad. Death changed, and we don't know what death really means anymore. Maybe that was the point. Maybe this is an object lesson about the arrogance of our assumptions. Hard to say. But the world? She didn't change. She healed. We stopped hurting her and she began to heal. You can see it all around. The whole world is a forest now. The air is fresher. More trees, more oxygen.

  Jonathan Maberry

  Hurt, Mean, Air

  Jonathan Maberry (2012). “Tales of the Rot & Ruin: Rot & Ruin; Dust & Decay; Dead & Gone, a Rot & Ruin story; Flesh & Bone”, p.679, Simon and Schuster

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• What is the meaning of it, Watson? said Holmes solemnly as he laid down the paper. "What object is served by this circle of misery and violence and fear? It must tend to some end, or else our universe is ruled by chance, which is unthinkable. But what end? There is the great standing perennial problem to which human reason is as far from an answer as ever.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Circles, Paper, Violence

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “His Last Bow and Others: Sherlock Holmes Collections”, p.63, 谷月社

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• I believed that I was approaching the end of my days without having tasted to the full any of the pleasures for which my heart thirsted...without having ever tasted that passion which, through lack of an object, was always suppressed. ...The impossibility of attaining the real persons precipitated me into the land of chimeras; and seeing nothing that existed worthy of my exalted feelings, I fostered them in an ideal world which my creative imagination soon peopled with beings after my own heart.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Real, Passion, Heart

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• There was a feeling, not sudden, but complete, as though I had been given a small object to hold unseen in my hands. Precious as opal, smooth as jade, weighty as a river stone, more fragile than a bird's egg. Infinitely still, live as the root of Creation. Not a gift, but a trust. Fiercely to cherish, softly to guard. The words spoke themselves and disappeared into the groined shadows of the roof.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Small Objects, Hands, Eggs

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.614, Dell

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• Over the years I knew her she always looked at me like that - as though I was a quite pleasant but amusing object - and it always did the same thing to me. It's difficult to put into words but perhaps I can best describe it by saying that if I had been a little dog I'd have gone leaping and gambolling around the room wagging my tail furiously.

  James Herriot

  Dog, Years, Tails

  James Herriot (2012). “Let Sleeping Vets Lie”, p.104, Pan Macmillan

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• My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.

  Karl Marx

  America, Life Is, Capitalism

  "The Most Important Documentary On America Ever, Destroying America From Within". beforeitsnews.com. December 28, 2013.

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• All at once, I couldn’t figure out why I was methodically tossing a spherical object through a toroidal object. It seemed like the stupidest thing I could possibly be doing.

  John Green

  Inspirational, Basketball, Augustus

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.26, Penguin

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• And so it is with our own past. It is a labour in vain to attempt to recapture it: all the efforts of our intellect must prove futile. The past is hidden somewhere outside the realm, beyond the reach of intellect, in some material object (in the sensation which that material object will give us) of which we have no inkling. And it depends on chance whether or not we come upon this object before we ourselves must die.

  Marcel Proust

  Past, Giving, Effort

  Marcel Proust (2010). “In Search Of Lost Time Vol 1: Swann's Way”, p.51, Random House

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• For the first time in his life, he stopped worrying about results, and as a consequence the terms “success” and “failure” had suddenly lost their meaning for him. The true purpose of art was not to create beautiful objects, he discovered. It was a method of understanding, a way of penetrating the world and finding one’s place in it, and whatever aesthetic qualities an individual canvas might have were almost an incidental by-product of the effort to engage oneself in this struggle, to enter into the thick of things.

  Paul Auster

  Beautiful, Art, Struggle

  Paul Auster (2010). “Moon Palace: A Novel (Penguin Ink)”, p.131, Penguin

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