Quotes 81 till 100 of 120.
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Space flights are merely an escape, a fleeing away from oneself, because it is easier to go to Mars or to the moon than it is to penetrate one's own being.
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Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will still blind him to the evidence. Let Oedipus triumph over gravity; he won't triumph over his fate.
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Take every gain without showing remorse about missed profits, because an eel may escape sooner than you think.
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Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.
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That's why people take vacations. Not to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things.
White Noise (2011) 276 -
The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.
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The faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
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The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.
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The main motive for 'nonattachment' is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work.
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The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.
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The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
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The only way out is the way through, just as you cannot escape from death except by dying. Being unable to write, you must examine in writing this being unable, which becomes for the present - henceforth? - the subject to which you are condemned.
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The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working.
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The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
Once Around the Sun (1951) -
The Prodigal Son at least walked home on his own feet. But who can duly adore that Love which will open the high gates to a prodigal who is brought in kicking, struggling, resentful, and darting his eyes in every direction for a chance of escape?
Surprised by Joy (1955) -
The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
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The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.
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The winters are too long, and there's only one airline, so it's difficult to escape when you feel frustrated or claustrophobic. The audience for our films isn't very large, so it's difficult to support an industry. But, Iceland is beautiful. Sometimes it's hard to imagine living anywhere else.
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The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.
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There are no black holes in the sense of regimes from which light can't escape to infinity.
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