Object Quotes

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Well, think of what Iâ€™m doing to you right now. For me Iâ€™m the self, and youâ€™re the object. For you, of course, itâ€™s the… — Haruki Murakami
I sometimes think love consists precisely of the voluntary gift by the loved object of the right to tyrannize over it. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
A life is such a strange object, at one moment translucent, at another utterly opaque, an object I make with my own hands, an object… — Simone de Beauvoir
The aim of literature ... is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart. — Donald Barthelme
And its object is Art not power, sub-creation not domination and tyrannous re-forming of Creation. — J.R.R. Tolkien
Those [things] that we encounter for the first time immediately have a spiritual effect upon us. A child, for whom every object is new, experiences… — Wassily Kandinsky
...they told me of color, that it was an illusion of the eye, an event in the perceiver's mind, not in the object; they told… — Matthew Tobin Anderson
Lovers feel a certain burning in their hearts. A deep longing and desire to meet with the beloved creates that burning. To love God is… — Rajneesh
A book, being a physical object, engenders a certain respect that zipping electrons cannot. Because you cannot turn a book off, because you have to… — Mo Willems
Knowing is not simply a material act, since the object that is known always conceals something beyond the empirical datum. All our knowledge, even the… — Pope Benedict XVI
I could have clasped the red walls to my bosom as a garment of eternal peace. "Death," I said, "any death but that of the… — Edgar Allan Poe
For the photograph's immobility is somehow the result of a perverse confusion between two concepts: the Real and the Live: by attesting that the object… — Roland Barthes
But let there be no misunderstanding: it is not that a real man, the object of knowledge, philosophical reflection or technological intervention, has been substituted… — Michel Foucault
What mattered to Abu was the music of the sentence. 'A shadow does not belong to the object that casts it.' To Abu, it was… — Tom Robbins
Love is a delicate plant that needs constant tending and nurturing, and this cannot be done by snorting at the adored object like a gas… — P.G. Wodehouse
Eiffel saw his Tower in the form of a serious object, rational, useful; men return it to him in the form of a great baroque… — Roland Barthes
One truth doesn't refute another. Truth doesn't lie in the object, but in how we see it. — Michael J. Sullivan
My love is of a birth as rare As 'tis, for object, strange and high; It was begotten by Despair Upon Impossibility. — Andrew Marvell
A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at… — Samuel Johnson
A single overstatement, wherever or however it occurs, diminishes the whole, and a carefree superlative has the power to destroy, for the reader, the object… — Elwyn Brooks White

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