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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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• [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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• 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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• There are always people willing to commit unspeakable human atrocity in exchange for a little power and privilege.

  Chris Hedges

  People, Atrocities, Littles

  Chris Hedges (2014). “War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning”, p.88, PublicAffairs

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• ... a great many times in this world, the hardest work we are given is just to sit to one side and neither speak, nor act. It is then prayer becomes an unspeakable blessing.

  Fannie Ellsworth Newberry

  Prayer, Blessing, World

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• What is a child, but a piece of the parent enrapt up in another skin? And yet our dearest children are but as strangers to us, in comparison of the unspeakable dearness that was between the Father and Christ. Now, that he should ever be content to part with a Son, and such an only One, is such a manifestation of love, as will be admired to all eternity.

  John Flavel

  Children, Father, Son

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• I think I would really lay down and die. Music comes from a very primal, twisted place. When a person sings, their body, their mouth, their eyes, their words, their voice says all these unspeakable things that you really can't explain but that mean something anyway. People are completely transformed when they sing; people look like that when they sing or when they make love. But it's a weird thing—at the end of the night I feel strange, because I feel I've told everybody all my secrets.

  Jeff Buckley

  Mean, Eye, Night

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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. Nothing is visible but the merest outline of dusky shapes. Standing within all is clear and defined; every ray of light reveals an army of unspeakable splendors.

  John Ruskin

  Christian, Army, Light

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 134, 1895.

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• The violet sea longs for the birth of gods,
  for to be born here is an unspeakable feast,
  a drumroll of commanding retinues and tritons.

  Jose Lezama Lima

  Sea, Violet, Birth

  José Lezama Lima (2005). “José Lezama Lima: Selections”, p.9, Univ of California Press

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• TURN ON. to contact the ancient energies and wisdoms that are built into your nervous system. They provide unspeakable pleasure and revelation. TUNE IN. to harness and communicate these new perspectives in a harmonious dance with the external world. DROP OUT. detach yourself from the tribal game. current models of social adjustement - mechanized, computerized, socialized, intellectualized, televised, sanforized - make no sense to the new LSD generation who see clearly that American society is becoming an air-conditioned anthill.

  Timothy Leary

  Air, Games, Perspective

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• Love truly does have the power to transcend evil. It can get us through the most unspeakable of events and give us the strength to keep on putting one foot in front of the other.

  Naomi Benaron

  Feet, Evil, Giving

  "Interview with author Naomi Benaron: Running the Rift". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. January 3, 2012.

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• When the world lacks muscular and wise American leadership, it devolves into total chaos, which, in turn, produces unspeakable evils.

  Monica Crowley

  Wise, Evil, World

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• Robin [Williams] was a world treasure. As we mourn his tragic death, we must remember him for the great waves of laughter that he was able to illicit from us, how his humor and insights - though they came from a place of pain and uncertainty - connected us and reminded us of how flawed and fragile...how human we are. How we are capable of moments of inspired transcendence and others of unspeakable despair.

  Glenn Close

  Leadership, Wisdom, Pain

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• A born-again person ought to possess unspeakable peace in the spirit.

  Watchman Nee

  Spirit, Born Again, Persons

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.236, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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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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• Every poem that I write is, in a sense, trying to find adequate words for this unspeakable word, around which my entire life turns.

  Kevin Hart

  Writing, Trying, Adequate

  "The Poetry and Prayers of Kevin Hart". "Encounter" with Carmel Howard, www.abc.net.au. June 5, 2011.

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• ...If peace were the goal of today's intellectuals, a failure of that magnitude -- and the evidence of unspeakable suffering on so large a scale -- would make them pause and check their statist premises. Instead, blind to everything but their hatred for capitalism, they are now asserting that 'poverty breeds wars' ... But the question is: What breeds poverty? If you look a the world of today and if you look back at history, you will see the answer: the degree of a country's freedom is the degree of its prosperity.

  Ayn Rand

  Country, War, Goal

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• It is necessary to reaffirm our solid opposition to any direct offense against life, especially when innocent and defenseless, and the unborn child in its mother's womb is the quintessence of innocence. Let us remember the words of Vatican Council II: 'Therefore from the moment of its conception life must be guarded with the greatest care while abortion and infanticide are unspeakable crimes.'

  Pope Francis

  Mother, Children, Abortion

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• It is unheard-of, uncivilized barbarism that any woman should still be forced to bear such monstrous torture. It should be remedied. It should be stopped. It is simply absurd that, with our modern science, painless childbirth does not exist as a matter of course.... I tremble with indignation when I think ofthe unspeakable egotism and blindness of men of science who permit such atrocities when they can be remedied.

  Isadora Duncan

  Men, Thinking, Matter

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