Absolute Quotes

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Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find… — Salman Rushdie
The mountains were his masters. They rimmed in life. They were the cup of reality, beyond growth, beyond struggle and death. They were his absolute… — Thomas Wolfe
There is truth, my boy. But the doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should you long for… — Hermann Hesse
Often I hear people say they do not have time to read. That's absolute nonsense. If one really wants to learn, one has to decide… — Louis L'Amour
I wish i could tell you that through the tragedy i mined some undiscovered, life-altering absolute that i could pass on to you.I didn't.The cliches… — Harlan Coben
Who wants a bag of bones?â€ he said, with absolute sincerity. â€œI donâ€™t want to hurt myself on the sharp edges of the woman Iâ€™m… — Charlaine Harris
His whole life was now summed up in two words: absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog. — Victor Hugo
The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance. — Dan Simmons
Instead of answering her as soon as he saw her hair grow electric, her face more vivid, her eyes like lightning, her body restless and… — Anais Nin
I've always been a very restless person. I work hard, spend too much time looking after my son, I dance like a mad thing, I… — Paulo Coelho
In this world, there is no absolute good, no absolute evil," the man said. "Good and evil are not fixed, stable entities, but are continually… — Haruki Murakami
My desires are foolish. The things I want are better kept to myself. The hand of silence is steady. The hard blade of silence is… — Henry Rollins
The greatest weapon any warrior can carry into battle is absolute certainty of her eternal soul. — Chuck Palahniuk
No power was total, no power permanent, no power absolute. — Justina Chen
As a young man with most of my life ahead of me, I decided early to give my life to something eternal and absolute. Not… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom--freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter how the last… — Anton Chekhov
You'll learn, honey. Love can be the best thing in life. And it can be the worst. The absolute worst. — Clive Barker
Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I dared, for the first and last time in my life, to express a theological conclusion: "But how can a necessary being exist totally polluted… — Umberto Eco
Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe, the realest, most vivid and important… — David Foster Wallace

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