"Vaguely conscious of that great suspense in which……" — Arthur Symons
"Vaguely conscious of that great suspense in which we live, we find our escape from its sterile, annihilating reality in many dreams, in religion, passion, art."
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21 Quotes by Arthur Symons
Arthur Symons has 21 quotes on this site.
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As perfume doth remain In the folds where it hath lain, So the thought of you, remaining Deeply folded in…
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Sweet, can I sing you the song of your kisses? How soft is this one, how subtle this is, How…
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It is in their eyes that their magic resides.
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Here in a little lonely room I am master of earth and sea, And the planets come to me.
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Night, a more perfect day.
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A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.
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Criticism is properly the rod of divination: a hazel switch for the discovery of buried treasure, not a birch twig…
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Art begins when a man wishes to immortalize the most vivid moment he has ever lived.
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And I would have, now love is over, An end to all, an end: I cannot, having been your lover…
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He knew that the whole mystery of beauty can never be comprehended by the crowd, and that while clearness is…
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My soul is like this cloudy, flaming opal ring.
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A place has almost a shyness of a person with strangers; its secret is not to be surprised by too…
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More Annihilating Quotes
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The body is amazingly stubborn when it comes to sacrificing itself to the annihilating directions of the mind.
— Sylvia Plath
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Meanwhile the mind, from pleasure less, Withdraws into its happiness; The mind, that ocean where each kind Does straight its…
— Andrew Marvell
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The decaying that had dragged on for too long had only turned tragedy into nuisance; death, when it strikes, better…
— Yiyun Li
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By annihilating somebody else in whatever way, then that person feels that they also have the ability to, then, restore…
— Jennifer Beals
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You can make yourself feel better about yourself if you project your shadow side, if you project your own potential…
— Jennifer Beals
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It’s the Muslims who are dragging the rest of the world with them, in their genocidal dreams of annihilating goodness,…
— Pamela Geller
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Spirits that live throughout, Vital in every part, not as frail man, In entrails, heart or head, liver or reins,…
— John Milton
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A bleak, black book, it engenders awe and despair. I have read it in its entirety 4 1/2 times, each…
— Michael Silverblatt
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It is the Late city that first defies the land, contradicts Nature in the lines of its silhouette, denies all…
— Oswald Spengler
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I had thought of annihilating the entire block that I lived on.
— Edmund Kemper
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By annihilating desires, you annihilate the mind.
— Claude Adrien Helvetius
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The true ethical test is not only the readiness to save the victims, but also - even more, perhaps -…
— Slavoj Žižek
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