#sublime

The novel avoids the sublime and seeks out the interesting. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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What interests me is the sense of the darkness that we carry within us, the darkness that's akin to one of the principal subjects of the sublime - terror. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

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That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man, never finds a more sublime expression than where humanity is oppressed and religion is corrupt. ↗

— Hall Caine

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