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“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

“My religion teaches me that a promise once made or a vow once taken for a worthy object may not be broken.”

May Made Religion Teach Taken Objects Broken Promise Worthy Vow

Book:The Good Life

Source: The Good Life

“Modern science has as its object as little pain as possible, as long a life as possible - hence a sort of eternal blessedness, but of a very limited kind in comparison with the promises of religion.”

Kind Littles Long Pain Modern Objects Promise Eternal Comparison Modern Science Blessedness

Book:A Book for Free Spirits 1: Human Book

Source: A Book for Free Spirits 1: Human Book

“All of the promises of ObamaCare, all of those shiny objects that were sold in Christmas in 2009 didn't come true.”

Objects Promise Obamacare

Author:Reince Priebus

“How can the mind take hold of such a country? Generations of invaders have tried, but they remain in exile. The important towns they build are only retreats, their quarrels the malaise of men who cannot find their way home. India knows of their trouble. She knows of the whole world's trouble, to its uttermost depth. She calls "Come" through her hundred mouths, through objects ridiculous and august. But come to what? She has never defined. She is not a promise, only an appeal.”

Source: A Passage to India