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• The Matisse seemed to respond to the decreasing light by increasing its own wattage. Every object in the room was drained of color, but the Matisse stood firm in the de-escalating illumination, its beauty turning functionality inside out, making itself a more practical and useful presence than anything else in sight.

  Steve Martin

  Light, Sight, Illumination

  Steve Martin (2010). “An Object of Beauty”, p.75, Hachette UK

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• I couldn't take much more of this. Being the object two men competed for wasn't as glamorous as it sounded in the movies. The two men who both wanted one hundred percent of my time weren't dashing, international playboys. They were undead and surprisingly immature, considering the youngest was just over a hundred years old.

  Jennifer Armintrout

  Men, Years, Two

  Jennifer Armintrout (2008). “Blood Ties Bundle: Blood Ties Book One: The Turning\Blood Ties Book Two: Possession\Blood Ties Book Three: Ashes to Ashes\Blood Ties Book Four: All Souls' Night”, MIRA

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• Animals! the object of insatiable interest, examples of the riddle of life, created, as it were, to reveal the human being to man himself, displaying his richness and complexity in a thousand kaleidoscopic possibilities, each of them brought to some curious end, to some characteristic exuberance.

  Bruno Schulz

  Animal, Men, Example

  Bruno Schulz, Jonathan Safran Foer, David Goldfarb (2008). "La calle de los cocodrilos y otros cuentos", Penguin Classics

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• While people are fairly young and the musical composition of their lives is still in its opening bars, they can go about writing it together and sharing motifs (the way Tomas and Sabina exchanged the motif of the bowler hat), but if they meet when they are older, like Franz and Sabina, their musical compositions are more or less complete, and every motif, every object, every word means something different to each of them.

  Milan Kundera

  Escribir, Significa, Gente

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• Everyone has their first date and the object is to hide your flaws. And then you're in a relationship, and it's all about hiding your disappointment. And then, once you're married, it's about hiding your sins.

  Joss Whedon

  Disappointment, Firsts, Married

  "Dollhouse (A Spy in the House of Love)". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2009–2010.

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• Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime; that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling... When danger or pain press too nearly, they are incapable of giving any delight, and are simply terrible; but at certain distances, and with certain modifications, they may be, and they are, delightful, as we every day experience.

  Edmund Burke

  Pain, Ideas, Giving

  "A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful". Treatise by Edmund Burke, www.bartleby.com. 1757.

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• No, she thought, one could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low.

  Virginia Woolf

  Moments, Sideways, Mark

  Virginia Woolf (2016). "Al faro", p.166, Tyché

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• We hypostatize information into objects. Rearrangement of objects is change in the content of the information; the message has changed. This is a language which we have lost the ability to read. We ourselves are a part of this language; changes in us are changes in the content of the information. We ourselves are information-rich; information enters us, is processed and is then projected outward once more, now in an altered form. We are not aware that we are doing this, that in fact this is all we are doing.

  Philip K. Dick

  Information, Messages, Facts

  "VALIS".

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• This is my life, I think. I am an accumulation of objects.

  David Levithan

  Thinking, Accumulation

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.61, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Adventure! People talked about the idea as if it were something worthwhile, rather than a mess of bad food, no sleep and strange people inexplicably trying to stick pointed objects in bits of you.

  Terry Pratchett

  Travel, Adventure, Sleep

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• I think I exist,' he said wearily. 'I am conscious of my own identity. I was born, and I shall die. I have arms and legs. I occupy a particular point in space. No other solid object can occupy the same point simultaneously.

  George Orwell

  Thinking, Space, Identity

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.351, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Si una mujer oculta su afecto con la misma habilidad al objeto del mismo, puede perder la oportunidad de fijarse en él; y entonces no será más que un pobre consuelo creer que el mundo está igualmente a oscuras. Hay tanto de gratitud o de vanidad en casi cualquier apego, que no es seguro dejar ninguno para sí mismo. Todos podemos empezar 'libremente'-como preferencia ligera es bastante natural; pero hay muy pocos de nosotros que tengan un corazón suficiente para estar realmente enamorados sin estímulo.

  Jane Austen

  Encouragement, Gratitude, Believe

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• Posiblemente se le había ocurrido que la colosal importancia de aquella luz se había desvanecido para siempre. [...] Le había parecido tan cercana como una estrella a la luna. Ahora era una luz verde en un muelle. Su cuenta de objetos encantados había disminuido en uno.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Estrellas, Luna, Luz

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew J. Bruccoli (1991). "F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby", p.73, Cambridge University Press

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• Cuando ya no puedo soportar las presiones exteriores, empiezo a poner orden en mis pertenencias... Como si fuera incapaz de organizar y controlar mi vida, intento ejercerlo sobre el mundo de los objetos.

  Anais Nin

  Orden, Mundo, Presión

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• Será liberado de la locura. ¿Y entonces qué? ¡Se sentirá aceptable! ¿Y entonces qué? ¿Crees que sentimientos como los suyos pueden ser simplemente pegados, como tiritas? ¿Pegados a otros objetos que seleccionamos? ¡Míralo! ... Mi deseo podría ser hacer de este chico un marido ardiente - un ciudadano bondadoso - un adorador de Dios abstracto y unificador. Mi logro, sin embargo, ¡es más probable que haga un fantasma!

  Peter Shaffer

  Marido, Cariñoso, Niños

  "Equus". Libro de Peter Shaffer, 1973.

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• La materia oscura tiene un efecto gravitatorio sobre otros objetos. No se puede ver, no se puede sentir, pero se puede observar cómo algo es atraído en su dirección.

  Jodi Picoult

  Oscuridad, Relojes, Materia

  Jodi Picoult (2009). "El guardián de mi hermana - Movie Tie-In: A Novel", p.149, Simon and Schuster

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• Men protect things they find important," Galladon said with a shrug. "If you object, you shouldn't have made yourself so irreplaceable.Kolo?" -Brandon Sanderson (Elantris)

  Brandon Sanderson

  Men, Important, Made

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• I probably coughed self-pityingly in response, little aware that I was about to cross a tremendous threshold beyond which there would be no return, that in my hands I held an object whose simple appearance belied its profound power. All true readers have a book, a moment, like the one I describe, and when Mum offered me that much-read library copy mine was upon me.

  Kate Morton

  Book, Simple, Self

  Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• An object is not so attached to its name that we cannot find another one that would suit it better.

  René Magritte

  Names, Suits

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• La imaginación magnifica los objetos pequeños con exageración fantástica hasta que llenan nuestra alma, y con atrevida insolencia reduce las cosas grandes a su propio tamaño, como cuando habla de Dios.

  Blaise Pascal

  Cutting, Small Objects, Imagination

  Blaise Pascal (2008). “Human Happiness”, Penguin Group USA

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• It isn't a matter of how long, or even how much you know. It's a way of looking at things, how much you see and how you think. I suppose it's, well, perspective. . . When you start seein' five sides to a four-sided object, that's when you get the gray robe.

  Hilari Bell

  Thinking, Long, Perspective

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• In Tereza’s eyes, books were the emblems of a secret brotherhood. For she had but a single weapon against the world of crudity surrounding her: the novels. She had read any number of them, from Fielding to Thomas Mann. They not only offered the possibility of an imaginary escape from a life she found unsatisfying; they also had a meaning for her as physical objects: she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an elegant cane from the dandy a century ago. It differentiated her from others.

  Milan Kundera

  Book, Eye, Numbers

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• To be shown love is to feel ourselves the object of concern: our presence is noted, our name is registered, our views are listened to, our failings are treated with indulgence and our needs are ministered to. And under such care, we flourish.

  Alain de Botton

  Love Is, Views, Names

  Alain De Botton (2008). “Status Anxiety”, p.6, Vintage

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• Summer is a Latvian chicken. We make foolish choices. We think we’re young again. We run with outstretched arms toward an object of love and it pecks us and pecks us until we’re standing there snot-nosed and teary in the middle of Astor Place and the sun sets fire to our Penguin shirts and all that is left to do is go to our air-conditioned homes and ponder the cruelty of our finest season.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Verano, Correr, Inicio

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• Where do vanished objects go?" "Into nonbeing, which is to say, everything," replied Professor McGonagall. "Nicely phrased," replied the eagle door knocker, and the door swung open.

  J. K. Rowling

  Doors, Eagles, Professor Mcgonagall

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