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• The only consolation I can find in your immediate presence is your ultimate absence.

  Shelagh Delaney

  Absence, Ultimate, I Can

  Shelagh Delaney (1959). “A Taste of Honey: A Play”, p.17, Grove Press

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• For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.

  Eric Ambler

  Science, Law, Internet

  Eric Ambler (2001). “A Coffin for Dimitrios”, Vintage

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• CONSOLATION, n. The knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Knowledge, Men, Unfortunate

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.41, University of Georgia Press

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• Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Cancer, Giving, Sin

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• Si estás dispuesto a fracasar de forma interesante, tiendes a tener éxito de forma interesante.

  Edward Albee

  Inspiración, Motivación, Éxito

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• That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Fun, Mind, Progress

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). "Los ensayos de Colby...".

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• The universe doesn't owe us condolence or consolation; it doesn't owe us a nice warm feeling inside.

  Richard Dawkins

  Nice, Condolences, Feelings

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• Aunque nada pueda devolver la hora
  De esplendor en la hierba, de gloria en la flor.

  William Wordsworth

  Pésame, flores, condolencias

  "Oda: Intimaciones de inmortalidad a partir de recuerdos de la primera infancia" l. 177 (1807)

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• It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Philosophy, Doe, Benefits

  Willard Van Orman Quine, Patricia Smith Churchland, Dagfinn Follesdal (2013). “Word and Object”, p.173, MIT Press

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• Kiss me out of desire, but not consolation.

  Jeff Buckley

  Kissing, Desire, Kiss Me

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• I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.

  Paul Cezanne

  Birthday, Artist, Age

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• Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.

  Richard Dawkins

  Science, People, Religion

  "Has the world changed?". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2001.

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• I really enjoy the consolation when I'm having to cut loose stuff I love, of saying 'Well, at least it will make it onto DVD.' There's a couple of scenes which I liked very much, but couldn't fit them into the film that are on there.

  Jay Roach

  Couple, Cutting, Dvds

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted.

  Brendan Behan

  Cells, Lovely, Paper

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• There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.

  Carl Sandburg

  Literature, Ifs

  Carl Sandburg, Margaret Sandburg, George Hendrick (1999). "Ever the Winds of Chance", p.11, University of Illinois Press.

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• If I were John Bolton, I'd take great consolation in the words of my principal supporter on the committee, who gave a ringing endorsement, which was, There is no evidence that he has broken any laws.

  Mark Shields

  Law, Broken, Endorsements

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• I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only consolation I could find.

  Wilfrid Sheed

  Writing, Died

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• Nuestro sistema es el colmo del absurdo, ya que tratamos al culpable tanto como a un niño, para tener derecho a castigarlo, como a un adulto, para negarle consuelo.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Niños, Orden, Castigo

  "Tristes Trópicos Libro de Claude Lévi-Strauss, traducido por John y Doreen Weightman. Capítulo 38: "Un vasito de ron", pp. 388-389, 1955.

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• Love is not consolation, it is light.

  Simone Weil

  Love, Life, Light

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.14, Psychology Press

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• Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen!

  James Thurber

  Night, Lasts, Blind

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• Bajo la presión de las preocupaciones y penas de nuestra condición mortal, los hombres, en todos los tiempos y en todos los países, han recurrido a alguna ayuda física para sus consuelos morales: vino, cerveza, opio, brandy o tabaco.

  Edmund Burke

  Campo, Vino, Cerveza

  Edmund Burke (1834). "Las obras de ... Edmund Burke", p.256

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• The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks.

  Voltaire

  Life, Thinking, Frankness

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• God has commanded Time to console the afflicted.

  Joseph Joubert

  Unhappy, Unhappiness, Console

  "Los cuadernos de Joseph Joubert". Libro de Joseph Joubert, traducido por Paul Auster, 2005.

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• Para los que necesitan consuelo ningún medio de consuelo es tan eficaz como la afirmación de que en su caso no hay consuelo posible: implica un grado de distinción tan grande que enseguida vuelven a levantar la cabeza.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Media, Grados, Necesidades

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). "Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality", p.171, Cambridge University Press

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• En nuestra triste condición nuestro único consuelo es la esperanza de otra vida. Aquí abajo todo es incomprensible.

  Martin Luther

  Hope, Another Life, Expectancy

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