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“Remember, how often the great art of the past didn't look great at first, how often it didn't look like art at all; how much easier it is, decades or centuries later, to adore it, not only because it is, in fact, great but because it's still here; because the inevitable little errors and infelicities tend to recede in an object that's survived the War of 1812, the eruption of Krakatoa, the rise and fall of Nazism.”

Firsts Looks Littles Art Stills War Facts Past Remember Fall Century Objects Easier Errors Decades Inevitable Survived Adore Great Art Nazism Rise And Fall Eruption War Of 1812

Author:Michael Cunningham

“Remember...we don't see objects, we see light. [...] Light can do anything water can do--flow, wash, trickle. It can do anything an artist can do--paint, burnish, carve. Candlelight falls, licks a face. There is always light in a room.”

Light Remember Faces Artist Fall Water Can Do Rooms Objects Flow Paint Candlelight

Author:Janet Fitch

“Life is one long struggle to disinter oneself, to keep one's head above the accumulations, the ever deepening layers of objects ... which attempt to cover one over, steadily, almost irresistibly, like falling snow.”

Long Life Is Fall Struggle Objects Simplicity Oneself Snow Layers Accumulation

Author:Rose Macaulay

“Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and the plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them. But when dear Sebastian speaks it is like a little sphere of soapsud drifting off the end of an old clay pipe, anywhere, full of rainbow light for a second and then - phut! vanished, with nothing left at all, nothing.”

Ifs Should Littles Ends Light Fall Left Speak Missing Objects Conversation Balls Dear Spheres Plates Rainbow Clay Bangs Pipe Glitter Drifting Juggling Drifting Off

Author:Evelyn Waugh

“In obedience to the feeling of reality, we shall insist that, in the analysis of propositions, nothing "unreal" is to be admitted. But, after all, if there is nothing unreal, how, it may be asked, could we admit anything unreal? The reply is that, in dealing with propositions, we are dealing in the first instance with symbols, and if we attribute significance to groups of symbols which have no significance, we shall fall into the error of admitting unrealities, in the only sense in which this is possible, namely, as objects described.”

Ifs Firsts May Feelings Reality Fall Groups Objects Errors Instance Symbols Obedience Analysis Significance Attributes Propositions Unreal Admitting Unreality

Book:Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy

Source: Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy

“Oh each successive night that comes has something in it of an abandoned ember that is slowly burning out, and it falls swathed in ruins, surrounded by funereal objects.”

Night Fall Objects Ruins Burning Abandoned Embers

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“Waiting is directed at nothing: any object that could gratify it would only efface it. Still, it is not confined to one place, it is not a resigned immobility; it has the endurance of a movement that will never end and would never promise itself the reward of rest; it does not wrap itself in interiority; all of it falls irremediably outside.”

Doe Stills Ends Fall Waiting Movement Objects Promise Rewards Endurance Wraps Confined Resigned

Book:Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology

Source: Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology

“Convinced that character is all and circumstances nothing, [the Puritan] sees in the poverty of those who fall by the way, not a misfortune to be pitied and relieved, but a moral failing to be condemned, and in riches, not an object of suspicion ... but the blessing which rewards the triumph of energy and will.”

Way Character Fall Energy Moral Poverty Failing Objects Circumstances Blessing Rewards Riches Convinced Triumph Misfortunes Suspicion Relieved Puritan

Book:Religion And The Rise Of Capitalism

Source: Religion And The Rise Of Capitalism

“Until recently baby production was largely dependent on slave labour; as soon as women are allowed to answer the question "Would you like to squeeze as many objects the size of a watermelon out of your body as it takes to kill you?" they generally answer "No, thank you." This leads to falling birthrates everywhere women are not kept enslaved and ignorant of the alternatives.”

Body Fall Answers Objects Baby Slave Size Productions Your Body Ignorant Alternatives Dependent Labour Slave Labour

Author:James Nicoll

“Ambition becomes displeasing when it is once satiated; there is a reaction; and as our spirit, till our last sigh, is always aiming toward some object, it falls back on itself, having nothing else on which to rest; and having reached the summit, it longs to descend.”

Lasts Spirit Fall Objects Ambition Reactions Sigh Summit Fall Back

Author:Pierre Corneille

“When a sudden ray of sun or a moonbeam falls on a dreary street, it makes no difference what it illumines-a broken bottle on the ground, a fading flower in a field, or the flaxen blonde hair of a child's head. The object is transformed and the viewer is transfixed. Celebrate that moment of beauty and take it with you in your memory. It is God's gift to you.”

“Roque...lined his men up and had them produce all the clothing, jewels, money, and other objects that they had stolen since the last time they had divided the spoils. Having made a hasty appraisal and reduced to terms of money those items that could not be divided, he split the whole into shares with such equity and exactitude that in not a single instance did he go beyond or fall short of a strict distributive justice. They were all well satisfied with the payment received, indeed they were quite well pleased; and Roque then turned to Don Quixote.”

“The things of the world are ever rising and falling, and in perpetual change; and this change must be according to the will of God, as He has bestowed upon man neither the wisdom nor the power to enable him to check it. The great lesson in these things is, that man must strengthen himself doubly at such times to fulfill his duty and to do what is right, and must seek his happiness and inward peace from objects which cannot be taken away from him.”

Men World Fall Taken Objects Duty Lessons Gods Will Checks Rising Perpetual Inward

Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt

“Did men but consider that the sun, moon, and stars, and every other object of the senses, are only so many sensations in their minds, which have no other existence but barely being perceived, doubtless they would never fall down and worship their own ideas; but rather address their homage to that eternal invisible Mind which produces and sustains all things.”

Source: Principles of Human Knowledge: Human Understanding

“I became evil for no reason. I had no motive for my wickedness except wickedness itself. It was foul, and I loved it. I loved the self-destruction, I loved my fall, not the object for which I had fallen but my fall itself. My depraved soul leaped down from your firmament to ruin. I was seeking not to gain anything by shameful means, but shame for its own sake.”

Mean Soul Self Reason Fall Evil Objects Gains Destruction Shame Sake Seeking Ruins Fallen Motive No Reason Wickedness Foul Shameful Self Destruction Depraved Firmament

Book:The Confessions

Source: The Confessions

“A Heavenly Master governs all the world as Sovereign of the universe. We are astonished at Him by reason of His perfection, we honor Him and fall down before Him because of His unlimited power. From blind physical necessity, which is always and everywhere the same, no variety adhering to time and place could evolve, and all variety of created objects which represent order and life in the universe could happen only by the willful reasoning of its original Creator, Whom I call the Lord God.”

“Black holes, we all know, are these regions where if an object falls in, it can't get out, but the puzzle that many struggled with over the decades is, what happens to the information that an object contains when it falls into a black hole. Is it simply lost?”

Ifs Knows Happens Fall Lost Black Information Objects Decades Holes Regions Puzzles Black Hole

Author:Brian Greene

“They think I'm silly. I do silly things. I fall down and run into things. I talk to inanimate objects. I'll hold a pickup stick to my ear and say, "What? What's that? I can't hear you”

Thinking I Can Running Fall Objects Ears Down And Sticks Silly Falling Down Silly Things Pickups Inanimate Objects

Author:Stephen Colbert

“I share with many people the feeling that there is a sweetness and constancy to light that falls into a studio from the north sky that sets it beyond any other illumination. It is a light of such penetrating clarity that even a simple object lying by chance in such a light takes on an inner glow, almost a voluptuousness.”

People Feelings Light Lying Fall Chance Simple Sky Share Objects Studios Clarity Sweetness Illumination Constancy

Author:Irving Penn

“All the things you need in the death transition, you need now in the life transition, because life is a transition, it is a between state. Therefore, every night when you fall asleep, it's like you die. And every time you do, you should be using the process of falling asleep as giving up your attention to sense objects, your discursive ruminating thoughts and so on. You should use that as a process of giving up and giving yourself completely to the universe and becoming completely obliterated.”

Needs Giving Should States Use Life Is Night Dies Fall Universe Process Attention Objects Like You Becoming Giving Up Transition Every Night Falling Asleep Giving Yourself

Author:Robert Thurman

“So we [with Kate DiCamillo] decided to give the friends an object and see what they did with it. The object was a sock and it went from there. Once we got going, once we got on a roll, it became very easy to work together and to figure out how to do it. We would meet for two-hour segments, usually from 10-12, two or three times a week. We met all one summer, and I think into the fall.”

Thinking Giving Two Together Fall Three Easy Hours Week Figures Objects Mets Summer Decided Working Together Three Times Sock Kate

Author:Alison McGhee

“Suppose we wonder whether we should trust the deliverances of our basic epistemic competences. If those are indeed our basic competences, then in order properly to satisfy our curiosity we will inevitably rely on one or more of them. So, either we squelch our curiosity or we will have to fall into the circularity or regress to which the skeptic objects.”

Ifs Should Order Fall Wonder Objects Curiosity Rely Competence Skeptic Deliverance Circularity

Author:Ernest Sosa

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