"What is the Absolute? Something that appears to……" — Slavoj Žižek
"What is the Absolute? Something that appears to us in fleeting experiences--say, through the gentle smile of a beautiful woman, or even through the warm caring smile of a person who may otherwise seem ugly and rude. In such miraculous but extremely fragile moments, another dimension transpires through our reality. As such, the Absolute is easily corroded;it slips all too easily through our fingers and must be handled as carefully as a butterfly"
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The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
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Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.
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