"Do you know what punishments I've endured for……" — Brent Weeks
"Do you know what punishments I've endured for my crimes, my sins? None. I am proof of the absurdity of men's most treasured abstractions. A just universe wouldn't tolerate my existence."
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65 Quotes by Brent Weeks
Brent Weeks has 65 quotes on this site.
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You don't need to like reality, only be strong enough to face it
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It was no true prayer to beg forgiveness while choosing to sin.
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If you worry about what everyone is trying to do, you become a spectator and not a player.
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Put on some armor. Just remember what's armor and what's you, so when it's time to take it off, you…
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My writing has a lot of surprising twists,
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Why did women always believe that talking about a problem would fix it? Some issues were corpses. Hot air made…
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Why is it, my shadow-striding friend, that we don't fear dreams? We lose consciousness, lose control, things happen with no…
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My question is, do you believe in an evil possessed of its own purity? or does every act intend some…
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Love is a fragile, corruptible thing. And yet I have seen it evince a curious strength. It is beyond any…
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...if reality is hard and flat and unjust, then it's better to adjust to what really is than to complain…
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There's no guarantee that justice will win out or that a noble sacrifice will make any difference. But when it…
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Life is meaningless, when we take a life we take nothing of value.
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More Abstractions Quotes
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one of 74 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.
— Sarah Caldwell
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Accordingly, France Had Voltaire, and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker…
— John Stuart Mill
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If chimpanzees have consciousness, if they are capable of abstractions, do they not have what until now has been described…
— Carl Sagan
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Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal…
— George Boole
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The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where the human perception begins. He…
— Flannery O'Connor
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To be well used, creatures and places must be used sympathetically, just as they must be known sympathetically to be…
— Wendell Berry
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There are no steps to self-realization. There is nothing gradual about it. It happens suddenly and is irreversible. You rotate…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.
— Edmund Burke
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Perhaps the efforts of the true poets, founders, religions, literatures, all ages, have been, and ever will be, our time…
— Walt Whitman
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We want spiritual principles to be more than beautiful abstractions; we want them to actually transform our lives.
— Marianne Williamson
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For such will be our ruin if you, in the immensity of your public abstractions, forget the private figure, or…
— Virginia Woolf
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For the Warrior of the Light, there are no abstractions.
— Paulo Coelho
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