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«That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.»
«The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.»
Author: Thomas Hardy
(Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Disappointment,
Fulfilment
| Keywords:
disappointment, fulfillment, removes, scar, sudden, The Ultimate
«The moment of truth, the sudden emergence of a new insight, is an act of intuition. Such intuitions give the appearance of miraculous flushes, or short-circuits of reasoning. In fact they may be likened to an immersed chain, of which only the beginning and the end are visible above the surface of consciousness. The diver vanishes at one end of the chain and comes up at the other end, guided by invisible links.»
Author: Arthur Koestler
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«The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts»
«There is no sudden entrance into Heaven.Slow is the ascent by the path of Love.»
Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
| Keywords:
ascent, entrance, entrances, Entrance to, entrancing, sudden
«What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)
| About:
Happiness
| Keywords:
dammed, dams, dam up, higher degree, preferably, strictest, sudden, to a higher degree, to the highest degree
«Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness -- pushing us at intervals close to taboo and dangerous desires, which range from the impulse to commit sudden arbitrary violence upon another person to the voluptuous yearning for the extinction of one's consciousness, for death itself. Even on the level of simple physical sensation and mood, making love surely resembles having an epileptic fit at least as much as, if not more than, it does eating a meal or conversing with someone.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
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