Absolute Quotes

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What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms. What I touch, what resists me--that is what… — Albert Camus
And happiness...Well, after all, desires torment us, don't they? And, clearly, happiness is when there are no more desires, not one...What a mistake, what ridiculous… — Yevgeny Zamyatin
She was staring at you.â€™â€™ â€˜â€˜What can I say? Irresistible.â€™â€™ â€˜â€˜Shane, itâ€™s not funny. I justâ€”you should be careful.â€™â€™ â€˜â€˜Always am.â€™â€™ Which was an absolute… — Rachel Caine
Alone, what did Bloom feel? The cold of interstellar space, thousands of degrees below freezing point or the absolute zero of Fahrenheit, Centigrade or RÃ©aumur:… — James Joyce
Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part… — Carl Jung
We have a language that is full of ambiguities; we have a way of expressing ourselves that is often complex and elusive, poetic and modulated;… — Lynne Truss
So it's an absolute lie that has killed thousands of kids. Because the mothers who heard that lie, many of them didn't have their kids… — Bill Gates
He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog… — Arthur Conan Doyle
The absolute worst part of being depressed is the food. A person's relationship with food is one of their most important relationships. I don't think… — Ned Vizzini
Do you honestly think Lenin is any different from J.P. Morgan? That you, if you were given absolute power, would behave any differently? Do you… — Dennis Lehane
Thunderously, inarguably, the Sermon on the Mount proves that before God we all stand on level ground: murderers and temper-throwers, adulterers and lusters, thieves and… — Philip Yancey
As much as we have free choice, absolute destiny is immutable. What is meant to happen does, through one measure or another. — J R Ward
Peace is preferable to war. But itâ€™s not an absolute value, and so we always ask, â€œWhat kind of peace? — Noam Chomsky
I swear to you, sirs, that excessive consciousness is a disease--a genuine, absolute disease. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
In Ixion music and party are our only beliefs. Darkness is our comfort. We have few rules but they are absolute. Your endocrine systems have… — Marianne de Pierres
God is the creator of all things, right? He is the force that dictates the laws of the universe, and is therefore the ultimate source… — Brandon Sanderson
It is so easy to presume that while your own world has ground to an absolute halt, so has everyone else's. — Jodi Picoult
We can state with conviction, therefore, that a man's support for absolute government is in direct proportion to the contempt he feels for his country. — Alexis de Tocqueville
The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it. It happens to be a fact that nearly… — Roald Dahl
Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable. — Anthony de Mello

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