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The view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve,… — Ayn Rand
If a night-moth were to concentrate its will on flying to a star or some equally unattainable object, it wouldn't succeed. Only, it wouldn't even… — Hermann Hesse
Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words…By means of art were are sometimes sent - dimly, briefly -… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
But this was that view of human destiny which she had most passionately hated and rejected: the view that man was ever to be drawn… — Ayn Rand
The contemplation of beauty, whether it be a uniquely tinted sunset, a radiant face, or a work of art, makes us glance back unwittingly at… — Vladimir Nabokov
It was a good thing that she got herself into this other school. It showed her that there were other worlds beside the world she… — Betty Smith
Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this… — H. L. Mencken
All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness. The day is coming when you will wake to find,… — C.S. Lewis
You, have this whole tall, dark stranger thing going on. Not to mention the tortured artist bit. And you, have that whole blonde cool and… — Sarah Dessen
love doesn't follow the rules... nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable. — Jodi Picoult
He felt as though he were failing in practically every area of his life. Lately, happiness seemed as distant and unattainable to him as space… — Nicholas Sparks
He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood… — Jodi Picoult
When my mother didn't come back I realized that any moment could be the last. Nothing in life should simply be a passage from one… — Peter HÃ¸eg
Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who pause to consider the antithesis: that perfect unhappiness… — Primo Levi
Dreams, memories, the sacred--they are all alike in that they are beyond our grasp. Once we are even marginally separated from what we can touch,… — Yukio Mishima
Our human tragedy is that we are unable to comprehend our experience, it slips through our fingers, we can't hold on to it, and the… — Salman Rushdie
I want to be first. I know that’s selfish, and maybe unattainable, and maybe shallow. But I just want to come first with someone. If… — Charlaine Harris
Then let us all do what is right, strive with all our might toward the unattainable, develop as fully as we can the gifts God… — Ludwig van Beethoven
You think the end justifies the means, however vile. I tell you: the end is the means by which you achieve it. Today's step is… — Wilhelm Reich
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 have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves -- this critical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty. The ideals… — Albert Einstein
Something he knew he had missed: the flower of life. But he thought of it now as a thing so unattainable and improbable that to… — Edith Wharton
In mysticism that love of truth which we saw as the beginning of all philosophy leaves the merely intellectual sphere, and takes on the assured… — Evelyn Underhill
I see myself forever and ever as the ridiculous man, the lonely soul, the wanderer, the restless frustrated artist, the man in love with love,… — Henry Miller
But the trouble with sainthood these days is the robe-and-halo imagery that gets stuck onto it." Carl got that brooding look again. "People forget that… — Diane Duane

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