Object Quotes

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I cannot live without books: but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object. — Thomas Jefferson
almost any object, including this book you hold, can turn up as Exhibit A in a murder trial. — Tom Robbins
To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will tax the reader more… — Henry David Thoreau
Pleasure cannot be shared; like Pain, it can only be experienced or inflicted, and when we give Pleasure to our Lovers or bestow Charity upon… — Aldous Huxley
Bless you prison, bless you for being in my life. For there, lying upon the rotting prison straw, I came to realize that the object… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is related only to objects and not to individuals, or… — Michel Foucault
A love that does not discriminate seems to me to forfeit a part of its own value, by doing an injustice to its object; and… — Sigmund Freud
We must therefore rediscover, after the natural world, the social world, not as an object or sum of objects, but as a permanent field or… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
At a conference of sociologists in America in 1977, love was defined as "the cognitive-affective state characterized by intrusive and obsessive fantasizing concerning reciprocity of… — Bill Bryson
I had long ago learned that when you are the giant, alien visitor to a remote and foreign culture it is sort of your job… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Once war is forced upon us, there is no alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end. Warâ€™s very… — Douglas MacArthur
There are significant relationships, of course, between wanting things and caring about them..The notion of caring is in large part constructed out of the notion… — Harry Frankfurt
During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and… — Vladimir Lenin
My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object… — Marquis de Sade
A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp. — Carson McCullers
Distance... is like futurity. A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those of our vision...… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I am overcome by a feeling of complete detachment. I am a mere object to these people. I am barely human any more. — Tabitha Suzuma
The millions of human beings who were shot, tortured, starved, treated like animals and made the object of a conspiracy of ridicule, can sleep in… — Raoul Vaneigem
..bear in mind that, in general, it is the object of our newspapers rather to create a sensation-to make a point-than to further the cause… — Edgar Allan Poe
Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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