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Letter "A" » abyss
«You said I killed you - haunt me, then! The murdered do haunt their murderers, I believe. I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!»
«The Holy Bible is an abyss. It is impossible to explain how profound it is, impossible to explain how simple it is.»
«Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.»
«The non-existent was not; the existent was not at that time. The atmosphere was not nor the heavens which are beyond. What was concealed? Where? In whose protection? Was it water? An unfathomable abyss?»
«Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But they survive, they come to the surface again. And they develop a routine of the abyss: ''It's four o clock. At five I have my abyss... ''»
Author: Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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Writer)
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Keywords:
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clock,
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The Abyss,
Voluptuaries,
voluptuary
«The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.»
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
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Author,
Critic,
Novelist)
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Keywords:
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abyss,
abysses,
brief,
common sense,
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From the Cradle,
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«The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.»
«Who falls from all he knows of bliss, Cares little into what abyss»
«What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous...»
Author: Thomas Merton
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About:
Discovery
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Keywords:
abyss,
abysses,
cross,
disastrous,
discovery,
not able,
sailing,
separates,
The Abyss,
The Moon,
useless,
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voyaging
«Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
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Critic,
Philosopher,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
abyss,
fights,
fight back,
gaze,
Into You,
monster,
monsters,
see to it,
The Abyss