“Garbo still belongs to that moment in cinema when capturing the human face still plunged audiences into the deepest ecstasy, when one literally lost oneself in a human image as one would in a philtre, when the face represented a kind of absolute state of the flesh, which could be neither reached nor renounced.” HumansKindStillsStatesMomentsFacesLostAudienceAbsolutesOneselfFleshCinemaThat MomentEcstasyHuman FacesGarbo Author:Greta Garbo
“One must not allow oneself to skid down to isolationism and unbridled economic egoism. ... The second possible mistake would be excessive interference into the economic life of the country. And the absolute faith into the all-mightiness of the state.” CountryStatesWould BeMistakeResponsibilityHistoryPowerEconomicHonestyCapitalismEconomicsAbsolutesOneselfDebtSocialismTaxationEgoismInterferenceIsolationism Author:Vladimir Putin
“Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation.” MenHeartEvilSinPayPracticeKnowingImpossibleDespairCapacityAbsolutesAimOneselfSettingSettingsCarrieGoodwillHaving HopeDamnationFreezingHope And DespairEvil ManUnforgivableUnforgivable Sin Book:The Portable Graham Greene Source: The Portable Graham Greene
“Theoretically there is no absolute proof that one's awakening in the morning (the finding oneself again in the saddle of one's personality) is not really a quite unprecedented event, a perfectly original birth.” MorningEventsPersonalityBirthFindingsAbsolutesOriginalsOneselfAwakeningProofUnprecedentedSaddlesFinding Oneself Book:Bend Sinister Source: Bend Sinister
“the intensity, glory, and absolute assuredness if my mind's flight made it very difficult for me to believe once i was better, that the illness was one i should willingly give up....moods are such an essential part of the substance of life, of one's notion of oneself, that even psychotic extremes in mood and behavior somehow can be seen as temporary, even understandable reactions to what life has dealt....even though the depressions that inevitably followed nearly cost me my life.” IfsGivingShouldMindBelieveMadeDifficultCostEssentialsDepressionGiving UpBehaviorGloryAbsolutesNotionOneselfIllnessExtremesMoodReactionsFlightMade ItSubstanceTemporaryIntensityPsychotic Author:Kay Redfield Jamison
“One must never allow oneself to acquire an exaggerated sense of one's own importance. There's no necessity to burden oneself with absolutes” ImportanceAbsolutesOneselfBurdenAcquireExaggerated Book:The Fountainhead Source: The Fountainhead
“Learning to live ought to mean learning to die - to acknowledge, to accept, an absolute mortality - without positive outcome,or resurrection, or redemption, for oneself or for anyone else. That has been the old philosophical injunction since Plato: to be a philosopher is to learn how to die.” MeanHas BeensDiesAcceptingOughtAbsolutesPhilosophicalOneselfPhilosopherRedemptionAcknowledgeOutcomesMortalityResurrectionPlatoPositive Outcome Author:Jacques Derrida
“If there is anything good about exile, it is that it teaches one humility. It accelerates one’s drift into isolation, an absolute perspective. Into the condition at which all one is left with is oneself and one’s language, with nobody or nothing in between. Exile brings you overnight where it would normally take a lifetime to go.” IfsLeftLanguageTeachConditionsHumilityPerspectiveAbsolutesLifetimeOneselfIsolationExileAccelerate Author:Joseph Brodsky
“The mere word freedom is the only one that still excites me. I deem it capable of indefinitely sustaining the old human fanaticism. It doubtless satisfies my only legitimate aspiration. Among all the many misfortunes to which we are heir, it is only fair to admit that we are allowed the greatest degree of freedom of thought. It is up to us not to misuse it. To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery-even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness-is to betray all sense of absolute justice within oneself.” HumansMeanStillsStatesImaginationJusticeDegreesCapableFairsAbsolutesSlaveryMereOneselfAspirationMisfortunesBetrayFanaticismFreedom Of ThoughtHeirsEliminationSustainingMisuse Author:Andre Breton