#sublime

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Chocolate's okay, but I prefer a really intense fruit taste. You know when a peach is absolutely perfect... it's sublime. I'd like to capture that and then use it in a dessert.


Kathy Mattea


#capture #chocolate #dessert #fruit #i

I'm sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.


Keanu Reeves


#i #noble #sorry #sublime #very

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry.


Erik Satie


#art #invented #modest #most #musician

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


Immanuel Kant


#sublime #beauty

When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene.


Jane Austen


#nature #night #sorrow #sublime #wickedness

Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.


Jean Baudrillard


#commands #higher #more #price #seduction

The sublime moment seems to be only a product of allowing yourself to get through, to get to a lot of stuff in your life, write about a lot of stuff and not edit yourself. That is a great lesson to learn for anybody that writes or creates in anyway, to be able to make something without being good or bad.


Jeff Tweedy


#about #allowing #anybody #anyway #bad

Our faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom of God upon the earth is more sublime and more compelling.


Dorothy Day


#death #earth #faith #firmer #flesh

If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.


Denis Diderot


#deny #essential #great #kind #petty

But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.


Lafcadio Hearn


#artistic #beauty #bible #chinese #every