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• Who has not felt the beauty of a woman's arm? The unspeakable suggestions of tenderness that lie in the dimpled elbow, and all the varied gently-lessening curves, down to the delicate wrist, with its tiniest, almost imperceptible nicks in the firm softness.

  George Eliot

  Beauty, Lying, Curves

  George Eliot (2016). “The Mill on the Floss: Top Novelist Focus”, p.391, 谷月社

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• Free will appears unfettered, deliberate; it is boundlessly free, wandering, the spirit. But fate is a necessity; unless we believe that world history is a dream-error, the unspeakable sorrows of mankind fantasies, and that we ourselves are but the toys of our fantasies. Fate is the boundless force of opposition against free will. Free will without fate is just as unthinkable as spirit without reality, good without evil. Only antithesis creates the quality.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dream, Believe, Fate

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• ...the tragedy of consumerism: one acquires more and more things without taking the time to ever see and know them, and thus one never truly enjoys them. One has without truly having. The consumer is right-there is pleasure to be had in good things, a sacred and almost unspeakable pleasure, but the consumer wrongly thinks that one finds this pleasure by having more and more possessions instead of possessing them more truly through grateful contemplation. And here we are, living in an economy that perpetuates this tragedy.

  Brian D. McLaren

  Grateful, Thinking, Tragedy

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• God works this unspeakable mystery of entire sanctification in your life and mine. People try to seek the experience of entire sanctification in ways other than God's way; but the wonderful Spirit of God will remove confusion and enable us to see that the only means to obtain the experience of entire sanctification by faith is the grace of God.

  Oswald Chambers

  Mean, People, Confusion

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• These are thy glorious works Parent of Good, Almighty, thine this universal Frame, Thus wondrous fair; thy self how wondrous then! Unspeakable, who sitst above these Heavens To us invisible or dimly seen In these thy lowest works, yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and Power Divine: Speak ye who best can tell, ye Sons of light, Angels, for ye behold him, and with songs And choral symphonies, Day without Night, Circle his Throne rejoicing, ye in Heav'n, On Earth join all ye Creatures to extoll Him first, him last, him midst, and without end.

  John Milton

  God, Song, Angel

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 5, l. 164

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• This is a day on which we pay our respects to those who have endured the unimaginable. This is an occasion for the world to speak up against the unspeakable. It is long overdue that a day be dedicated to remembering and supporting the many victims and survivors of torture around the world.

  Kofi Annan

  Long, Survivor, World

  "Secretary-General Appeals to Governments and Members of Civil Society to Take Action to Defeat Torture and Torturers Everywhere". Kofi Annan's message on the occasion of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture (June 26), www.un.org. June 23, 1998.

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• What I want you to understand, is the full evil of those who claim to have become convinced that this earth, by its nature, is a realm of malevolence where the good has no chance to win. Let them check their premises. Let them check their standards of value. Let them check - before they grant themselves the unspeakable license of evil-as-necessity - whether they know what is the good and what are the conditions it requires.

  Ayn Rand

  Winning, Evil, Want

  Ayn Rand (1957). “Atlas Shrugged”

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• This way of seeing our Father in everything makes life one long thanksgiving and gives a rest of heart, and, more than that, a gayety of spirit, that is unspeakable.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Father, Heart, Long

  Hannah Whitall Smith (2009). “The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life”, p.157, Moody Publishers

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• One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.

  Salman Rushdie

  Writing, Difficult Questions, Speak

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• A Light of utmost splendor glows on the eyes of my soul. Therein have I seen the inexpressible ordering of all things, and recognized God's unspeakable glory -- that incomprehensible wonder -- the tender caress between God and the soul...the unmingled joy of union, the living love of eternity as it now is and evermore shall be.

  Mechthild of Magdeburg

  Eye, Light, Joy

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• God be thanked for that good and perfect gift, the gift unspeakable: His life, His love, His very self in Jesus Christ.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Jesus, Self, Perfect

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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• I am one of the searchers. There are millions of us. We are not unhappy, but neither are we really content. We continue to explore ourselves, hoping to understand. We are drawn by the ocean, taken by its power, its unceasing motion, its mystery & unspeakable beauty. We like forests & mountains, deserts & hidden rivers, & lonely cities. Our sadness is as much a part of our lives as is our laughter. To share our sadness with one we love is perhaps as great a joy as we can know.

  James Kavanaugh

  Lonely, Laughter, Ocean

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• Do we give thanks to God 'for his unspeakable gift' and His rich blessings so abundantly bestowed upon us?

  Thomas S. Monson

  Blessing, Giving, Thanks

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• The blessed and inviting truth is that God is the most winsome of all beings and in our worship of Him we should find unspeakable pleasure.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Truth, Blessed, Worship

  "The Pursuit of God: The Human Thirst for the Divine". Book by Aiden Wilson Tozer, 1948.

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• Somewhere along the journey of remembering who we really are, we may find ourselves in a very uncomfortable space, a void in which we realize that we haven't totally let go of our old beliefs, and on the other hand we have yet to fully plug into the new truths we have discovered. This awkward "place of mind" can bring on an internal crisis of uncertainty, instability, confusion, frustration, and a most unspeakable despair as the "dark night" sets in and makes its presence felt.

  Nicholas Schmidt

  Letting Go, Dark, Night

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• The ordinary response to atrocities is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter aloud: this is the meaning of the word unspeakable.

  Judith Lewis Herman

  Atrocities, Ordinary, Consciousness

  Judith Lewis Herman (1997). “Trauma and Recovery”, p.1, Basic Books

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• There were many ways of not burdening one's conscience, of shunning responsibility, looking away, keeping mum. When the unspeakable truth of the Holocaust then became known at the end of the war, all too many of us claimed that they had not known anything about it or even suspected anything.

  Richard von Weizsaecker

  War, Responsibility, Holocaust

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• Our wickedness shall not overpower the unspeakable goodness and mercy of God; our dullness shall not overpower God's wisdom, nor our infirmity God's omnipotence.

  John of Kronstadt

  Forgiveness, Christian, Mercy Of God

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• Just because I work incredible good out of unspeakable tragedies doesn't mean I orchestrate the tragedies. Don't ever assume that my using something means I caused it or that I need it to accomplish my purposes. That will only lead you to false notions about me. Grace doesn't depend on suffering to exist, but where there is suffering you will find grace in many facets and colors.

  William P. Young

  Mean, Color, Grace

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• What if one happens to be possessed of a heart that can’t be trusted—? What if the heart, for its own unfathomable reasons, leads one willfully and in a cloud of unspeakable radiance away from health, domesticity, civic responsibility and strong social connections and all the blandly-held common virtues and instead straight towards a beautiful flare of ruin, self-immolation, disaster?

  Donna Tartt

  Beautiful, Strong, Responsibility

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• I want to build spires in their minds and dance shadows through like marionettes, chased by whispers and hints of the unspeakable.

  Laini Taylor

  Mind, Shadow, Hints

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• You're amazing, and I so want to be your boyfriend, because of what you just said, and also because that shirt makes me want to take you home and do unspeakable things while we watch live-action Sailor Moon videos

  John Green

  Home, Moon, Your Boyfriend

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.159, Penguin

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• We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.

  Terence McKenna

  Years, Strive, Millions

  "The Transcendental Object at the End of Time/ Taglines". www.imdb.com. 2014.

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• Even the classics that we read to our young children are full of wolves' fangs and burning ovens and bloody feet and ice shards piercing hearts. Even the New Testament climaxes with an act of unspeakable torture. Might as well just read to our kids from the Amnesty Annual Report and be done with it.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Children, Heart, Kids

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• Even the disappointing diffusion of a sheer curtain can suggest the most colorful bouquet of unspeakable secrets.

  Chris Ware

  Secret, Bouquets, Disappointing

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