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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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• 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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• 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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• In Eden, worship was not an event to attend, but a perpetual attitude.

  Rick Warren

  Attitude, Eden, Events

  Rick Warren (2012). “The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?”, p.80, Zondervan

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• This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours!

  William Wilberforce

  Soul, Solitude, Body

  Robert I. Wilberforce, Samuel Wilberforce, William Wilberforce (1839). “The Life of William Wilberforce: In Five Volumes”, p.207

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• I kissed him, trying to bring him back. I kissed him and let my lips rest against his so that our breath mingled and the tears from my eyes became salt on his skin, and I told myself that, somewhere, tiny particles of him would become tiny particles of me, ingested, swallowed, alive, perpetual. I wanted to press every bit of me against him. I wanted to will something into him. I wanted to give him every bit of life I felt and force him to live.

  Jojo Moyes

  Eye, Giving, Tears

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• I need sometimes to hang back in the shadows with my pen and paper, and then other times, I need to take center stage in my own creations. The trick is to know when to hang back, and when to step forward. It's a perpetual ongoing balance.

  Allison Joseph

  Shadow, Balance, Ongoing

  Source: lunchticket.org

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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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• 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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• The fairy tale is in a perpetual state of becoming and alteration. To keep to one version or one translation alone is to put robin redbreast in a cage.

  Philip Pullman

  Robins, Becoming, Cages

  Philip Pullman (2012). “Grimm Tales: For Young and Old”, p.15, Penguin UK

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• The problem with making a virtual world of oneself is akin to the problem with projecting ourselves onto a cyberworld: there’s no end of virtual spaces in which to seek stimulation, but their very endlessness, the perpetual stimulation without satisfaction, becomes imprisoning.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Space, World, Satisfaction

  Jonathan Franzen (2012). “Farther Away: Essays”, p.41, Macmillan

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• Remember her hair in the morning before it was pinned, black, rampant, savage with loveliness. As if she slept in perpetual storm.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Morning, Hair, Black

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Suttree”, p.185, Pan Macmillan

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• I liked it. I liked her. And every time I saw her, she seemed more beautiful. She just seemed to glow. I'm not talking like a hundred-watt bulb; she just had this warmth to her. Maybe it came from climbing that tree. Maybe it came from singing to chickens. Maybe it came from whacking at two-by-fours and dreaming about perpetual motion. I don't know. All I know is that compared to her, Shelly and Miranda seemed so...ordinary.

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Beautiful, Dream, Climbing

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• Come, my Celia, let us prove, While we can, the sports of love, Time will not be ours for ever, He, at length, our good will sever; Spend not then his gifts in vain: Suns that set may rise again; But if once we lose this light, 'Tis with us perpetual night. Why should we defer our joys? Fame and rumour are but toys.

  Ben Jonson

  Love, Sports, Time

  'Volpone' (1605) act 3, sc. 5.

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• The thought of our past years in me doth breed perpetual benedictions.

  William Wordsworth

  Time, Past, Years

  'Ode. Intimations of Immortality' (1807) st. 9

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• My life is spent in perpetual alternation between two rhythms,
  the rhythm of attracting people for fear I may be lonely
  and the rhythm of trying to get rid of them
  because I know that I am bored.

  C. E. M. Joad

  Lonely, Being Alone, Two

  In Observer 12 Dec. 1948, p. 2

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• We will have to become 'perpetual marketers', to learn to be channel and data planners without losing our human insight or creativity; to vastly increase the level of accountability and provide more relevant experiences for customers.

  John Woodward

  Business, Creativity, Data

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• To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Good Morning, Thinking, Sun

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.61, Graphic Arts Books

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• History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration.

  Norman O. Brown

  History, Stage, Commemoration

  Norman O. Brown (1990). “Love's Body, Reissue of 1966 edition”, p.116, Univ of California Press

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• Living should be perpetual and universal benediction.

  Wei Wu Wei

  Life, Should, Benediction

  "Why Lazarus Laughed: The Essential Doctrine, Zen - Advaita - Tantra". Book by Wei Wu Wei, 1960.

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