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• [DMT] raises all the questions in a hurry. It's so intense and so oriented toward the other and the visual and the hallucinogenic that it isn't really like a drug. It's more like an event that you ran into. You just came around a corner and there was the unspeakable.

  Terence McKenna

  Dmt, Drug, Events

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• Shame derives its power from being unspeakable.

  Brené Brown

  Shame, Gremlins, Daring Greatly

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.62, Penguin

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• Foxhunting... the unspeakable pursuing the inedible.

  Oscar Wilde

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• Explanation of the unspeakable cannot be finished.

  Gautama Buddha

  Explanation, Finished

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• Today's unspeakable perversion is tomorrow's kink, is next week's good clean fun

  Dan Savage

  Fun, Next Week, Today

  Dan Savage (1998). “Savage Love: Straight Answers from America's Most Popular Sex Columnist”, p.146, Penguin

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• The unspeakable visions of the individual.

  Jack Kerouac

  Vision, Individual

  Jack Kerouac (1993). “Visions of Cody”, p.389, Penguin

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• A heavier task could not have been impos'd,
  Than I to speak my griefs unspeakable.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Tasks, Speak

  William Shakespeare (1836). “The works of Shakespeare”, p.292

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• The silence sings. It is musical. I remember a night when it was audible. I heard the unspeakable.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Night, Silence, Musical

  Henry David Thoreau, Horace Elisha Scudder, Harrison Gray Otis Blake, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1898). “The writings of Henry David Thoreau”

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• The third always speaks the unspeakable words.

  Tupac Shakur

  Thug, Speak, Thirds

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• I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort.

  E. M. Forster

  Oscars, Wilde

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• Since peace is alone the gift of God, and as it is He who gives it, why should we be afraid? His unspeakable gift in His beloved Son is the ground of no doubtful hope.

  Michael Faraday

  Son, Giving, Beloved

  Michael Faraday's letter to Auguste de la Rive, 1861.

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• Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is as hard as rock and soft as drifting fog, who holds in his heart and mind the paradox of terrible storm and peace unspeakable and perfect.

  Carl Sandburg

  Peace, Heart, Men

  CARL SANDBURG (1954). “ABRAHAM LINCOLN: THE PRAIRIE YEARS AND THE WAR YEARS”

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• It's disquieting to reflect that one's dreams never symbolize one's real wishes, but always something Much Worse... If I really wanted to be passionately embraced by Peter, I should dream of dentists or gardening. I wonder what unspeakable depths of awfulness can only be expressed by the polite symbol of Peter's embraces?

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Dream, Real, Wish

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• When I am dead--I say it that way because from the things I know, I do not expect to live long enough to read this book in its finished form--I want you to just watch and see if I'm not right in what I say: that the white man, in his press, is going to identify me with "hate". He will make use of me dead, as he has made use of me alive, as a convenient symbol, of "hatred"--and that will help him escape facing the truth that all I have been doing is holding up a mirror to reflect, to show, the history of unspeakable crimes that his race has committed against my race.

  Malcolm X

  Hate, Book, Men

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.388, Ballantine Books

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• The point is, there is no feasible excuse for what are, for what we have made of ourselves. We have chosen to put profits before people, money before morality, dividends before decency, fanaticism before fairness, and our own trivial comforts before the unspeakable agonies of others

  Iain Banks

  Agony, People, Comfort

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• We tell stories to talk out the trouble in our lives, trouble otherwise so often so unspeakable. It is one of our main ways of making our lives sensible. Trying to live without stories can make us crazy. They help us recognize what we believe to be most valuable in the world, and help us identify what we hold demonic.

  William Kittredge

  Crazy, Believe, Trying

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• We've seen some insane signs: 'Is that a loaf of bread in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?' Funny stuff along those lines. Very original. One just said, 'I will do unspeakable things.' I thought that was very interesting - and mildly terrifying!

  Josh Hutcherson

  Funny, Interesting, Insane

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• Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows. Standing without, you see no glory, nor can possibly imagine any; standing within, every ray of light reveals a harmony of unspeakable splendors.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Faith, Light, Rays

  "Marble Faun the Romance of Monte Beni Vo".

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• To put it simply, no Darwin, no Hitler. Hitler tried to speed up evolution, to help it along, and millions suffered and died in unspeakable ways because of it.

  D. James Kennedy

  Religion, Atheism, Way

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• I was stricken by news and television pictures coming from the United States this morning. It is impossible to fully comprehend the evil that would have conjured up such a cowardly and depraved assault upon thousands of innocent people. There can be no cause or grievance that could ever justify such unspeakable violence. Indeed, such an attack is an assault not only on the targets but an offense against the freedom and rights of all civilized nations.

  Jean Chretien

  Morning, Rights, People

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• First, by the figurations of art there be made instruments of navigation without men to row them, as great ships to brooke the sea, only with one man to steer them, and they shall sail far more swiftly than if they were full of men; also chariots that shall move with unspeakable force without any living creature to stir them. Likewise an instrument may be made to fly withall if one sits in the midst of the instrument, and do turn an engine, by which the wings, being artificially composed, may beat the air after the manner of a flying bird.

  Roger Bacon

  Art, Moving, Men

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• Once out of all the gray days of my life I have looked into the heart of reality; I have witnessed the truth; I have seen life as it really is-ravishingly, ecstatically, madly beautiful, and filled to overflowing with a wild joy, and a value unspeakable.

  Margaret Prescott Montague

  Life, Beautiful, Heart

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• It was not Christianity which freed the slave: Christianity accepted slavery; Christian ministers defended it; Christian merchants trafficked in human flesh and blood, and drew their profits from the unspeakable horrors of the middle passage. Christian slaveholders treated their slaves as they did the cattle in their fields: they worked them, scourged them, mated them , parted them, and sold them at will. Abolition came with the decline in religious belief, and largely through the efforts of those who were denounced as heretics.

  Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner

  Christian, Religious, Blood

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• All the talk about the so-called unspeakable horror of early capitalism can be refuted by a single statistic: precisely in these years in which British capitalism developed, precisely in the age called the Industrial Revolution in England, in the years from 1760 to 1830, precisely in those years the population of England doubled.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Years, Age, Population

  Ludwig Von Mises (2006). “Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow”, p.7, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• It is forever unspeakable that man must suffer so. But you learn to control yourself, to work efficiently. ... I used to cry, and want to cry, but what do tears do? I was so proud when first I began to conquer. ... Your cheeks feel white just the same, but inside, not outside. Nobody can tell to look at you. Nobody.

  Elliott Merrick

  Sadness, Men, White

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