Absolute Quotes
1809 quotes by 1307 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Who wants a bag of bones?†he said, with absolute sincerity. “I don’t want to hurt myself on the sharp edges of the woman I’m…
— Charlaine Harris
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His whole life was now summed up in two words: absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog.
— Victor Hugo
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The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.
— Dan Simmons
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The greatest weapon any warrior can carry into battle is absolute certainty of her eternal soul.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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No power was total, no power permanent, no power absolute.
— Justina Chen
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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.
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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
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You'll learn, honey. Love can be the best thing in life. And it can be the worst. The absolute worst.
— Clive Barker
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Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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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
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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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