Sublime Quotes
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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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I love all women. Women are sublime beings. I love all of it: their eyes, their noses, their bodies.
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The study of law is sublime, and its practice vulgar.
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If you're at the sink washing the cup, wash the cup. Don't worry about everything else. ... We forget to appreciate the simplest moments of the day, the sublime in the ordinary.
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Something in me was changed by Lincoln in the Bardo, and the great sublime/grotesque risk of [George Saunders'] ghosts was a part of it.
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Men are not on such intimate terms with the sublime that they really can believe in it.
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Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.
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Our concerns sink into insignificance when compared with the eternal value of human personality - a potential child of God which is destined to triumph over lie, pain, and death. No one can take this sublime meaning of life away from us, and this is the one thing that matters.
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Ye are ugly? Well then, my brethren, take the sublime about you, the mantle of the ugly!
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Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.
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My object all sublime I shall achieve in time- To let the punishment fit the crime- The punishment fit the crime.
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He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] was a great thundering paradox of a man, noble and ignoble, inspiring and outrageous, arrogant and shy, the best of men and the worst of men, the most protean, most ridiculous, and most sublime.
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To sum it all up, if you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling. You must write every single day of your life. You must write dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next.
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In a world of travail and cheap wine the ridiculous becomes sublime...
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Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt.
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Sublime wonders lie in store,I am shown a regal residence;a mighty kingdom, an empirewith more grandeur than before.
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I am no friend of present-day Christianity, though its Founder was sublime.
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Surrounded by stories surreal and sublime, I fell in Love in the Library once upon a time.
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What interests me in [Lincoln in the Bardo] is a slight perverse balance between the sublime and the grotesque. Like you could have landed only on the sublime. But my argument is that the sublime couldn't exist without this other half.
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There is a line that I always loved from Lucretius. He said, "The sublime is the art of exchanging easier for more difficult pleasures." The presumption of that formulation is that the more difficult pleasures are actually better than the easier pleasures. That is why one makes the exchange.
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God seems willing to act as the most sublime psychologist, psychotherapist, or even psychiatrist if we are willing.
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Melancholy characterizes those with a superb sense of the sublime.
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There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart - an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime...
