Object Quotes

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When we lose people we love, we should never disturb their souls, whether living or dead. Instead. we should find consolation in an object that… — Orhan Pamuk
It sometimes is a disadvantage to be so very guarded. If a woman conceals her affection from the object of it, she may loose the… — Jane Austen
Let me simply state that it is wrong to regard any other human being, a priori, as an object, or an 'It.' This is so… — M. Scott Peck
I would cling to unhappiness because it was a known, familiar state. When I was happier, it was because I knew I was on my… — Hugh Laurie
Well, you split your soul, you see, and hide part of it in an object outside the body. Then, even if oneâ€™s body is attacked… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
The thing about champagne,you say, unfoiling the cork, unwinding the wire restraint, is that is the ultimate associative object. Every time you open a bottle… — David Levithan
Let us create extraordinary words, on condition that they be put to the most ordinary use and that the entity they designate be made to… — Gilles Deleuze
What should our second generation have done, what should it do with the knowledge of the horrors of the extermination of the Jews? We should… — Bernhard Schlink
The entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy the right things â€” not merely industrious,… — John Ruskin
â€Ž"I have no fear of losing u, for you aren't an object of my property, or anyone else's. I love you as you are, without… — Anthony de Mello
My idea was to chose an object that wouldn't attract me, either by its beauty or by its ugliness. To find a point of indifference… — Marcel Duchamp
Every book is an image of solitude. It is a tangible object that one can pick up, put down, open, and close, and its words… — Paul Auster
The Matisse seemed to respond to the decreasing light by increasing its own wattage. Every object in the room was drained of color, but the… — Steve Martin
I couldn't take much more of this. Being the object two men competed for wasn't as glamorous as it sounded in the movies. The two… — Jennifer Armintrout
Animals! the object of insatiable interest, examples of the riddle of life, created, as it were, to reveal the human being to man himself, displaying… — Bruno Schulz
While people are fairly young and the musical composition of their lives is still in its opening bars, they can go about writing it together… — Milan Kundera
Everyone has their first date and the object is to hide your flaws. And then you're in a relationship, and it's all about hiding your… — Joss Whedon
No, she thought, one could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object… — Virginia Woolf
I think I exist,' he said wearily. 'I am conscious of my own identity. I was born, and I shall die. I have arms and… — George Orwell
If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him; and it… — Jane Austen

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