Objects Quotes

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For the first time in his life, he stopped worrying about results, and as a consequence the terms â€œsuccessâ€ and â€œfailureâ€ had suddenly lost their… — Paul Auster
When common objects in this way be come charged with the suggestion of horror, they stimulate the imagination far more than things of unusual appearance;… — Algernon Blackwood
Ben remembered reading about curators in "Wonderstruck", and thought about what id meant to curate your own life, as his dad had done here. What… — Brian Selznick
Heavy misfortunes have befallen us, but let us only cling closer to what remains, and transfer our love for those whom we have lost to… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Youâ€™re like a god from a Greek myth, Saiman. You have no empathy. You have no concept of the world beyond your ego. Wanting something… — Ilona Andrews
All men are loyal, but their objects of allegiance are at best approximate. — John Barth
The physical body is an agent of the spirit and its mirror. It is an engine and a reflection of the spirit. It is the… — Saul Bellow
Because thatâ€™s how it works after something terrible has happened. You know this is true if something terrible has ever happened to you. A thousand… — Deb Caletti
I've got the Mark of Cain," said Simon. "That means nothing can kill me, right?" "You can kill yourself," Magnus said, somewhat unhelpfully. "As far… — Cassandra Clare
I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength, both… — Mary Wollstonecraft
I was forced to fall back upon the unsatisfactory conclusion, that while, beyond doubt, there are combinations of very simple natural objects which have the… — Edgar Allan Poe
Trapped in silence, Marco traces apologies and adorations across Celia's body with his tongue. Mutely expressing all the things he cannot speak aloud. He finds… — Erin Morgenstern
...one emotion after another crept into her face like objects into a slowly developing picture. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Indeed, the maligned American pastime of baseball may be by-far the greatest and best sport by one criterion, when it comes to emulating and training… — David Brin
In poetically well built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we love, but by… — Orhan Pamuk
With the death of my father, it wasn't just the objects of everyday life that had changed; even the most ordinary street scenes had become… — Orhan Pamuk
A book is a physical object in a world of physical objects. It is a set of dead symbols. And then the right reader comes… — Jorge Luis Borges
Art is not, as the metaphysicians say, the manifestation of some mysterious idea of beauty or God; it is not, as the aesthetical physiologists say,… — Leo Tolstoy
Purchasing power is a license to purchase power. The old proletariat sold its labour power in order to subsist; what little leisure time it had… — Raoul Vaneigem
Adrian was easily distractible by wacky topics and shiny objects. — Richelle Mead

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