Absolute Quotes

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It is to have a compulsive, repetitive, and nostalgic desire for the archive, an irrepressible desire to return to the origin, a homesickness, a nostalgia… — Jacques Derrida
It is difficult to estimate the misery inflicted upon thousands of persons, and the absolute pecuniary penalty imposed upon multitudes of intellectual workers by the… — Charles Babbage
If there is anything good about exile, it is that it teaches one humility. It accelerates oneâ€™s drift into isolation, an absolute perspective. Into the… — Joseph Brodsky
I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost… — Tennessee Williams
War creates its own intensity of hatred... You don't want to use force except as an absolute last resort. — Wesley Clark
Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for… — Charlotte Bronte
If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing. — John Brunner
It's absolutely fantastic. When I was a kid, my father was always trying to tell me how to be a man, and he said to… — Philip Roth
When we are children, we have a tranquil acceptance of mystery which is driven out of us later on, by curiosity and education and experience.… — Susan Cooper
The trouble with institutional investors is that their performance is usually measured relative to their peer group and not by an absolute yardstick. This makes… — George Soros
The absolute worst I have ever been treated, the worst things that have been done to me, the worst things that have been said about… — Clarence Thomas
Peace comes from the absence of fear, from a consciousness of trust, from a deep, underlying faith in the absolute goodness and mercy, the final… — Ernest Holmes
The greatest good that can come to anyone is forming within them an absolute certainty of themselves, and of their relationship to the Universe, forever… — Ernest Holmes
Happiness and health must be earned by absolute control of the emotional nature. — Florence Scovel Shinn
The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny. The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny and that's… — Alain Badiou
All the concessions we make to Eros are holes in our desire for the absolute. — Emile M. Cioran
The mistakes (of leaders) are amplified by the numbers who follow them without question. Charismatic leaders tend to build up followings, power structures and these… — Frank Herbert
I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. I'm sick of myself and everybody else that wants to make some kind… — J D Salinger
Artistic creation, after all, is not subject to absolute laws, valid from age to age; since it is related to the more general aim of… — Andrei Tarkovsky
The idea of infinity cannot be expressed in words or even described, but it can be apprehended through art, which makes infinity tangible. The absolute… — Andrei Tarkovsky

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