Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher, Writer
"When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you."
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Abyss
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Clarice Lispector
Novelist, Short Story Writer
"It is because I dove into the abyss that I am beginning to love the abyss I am made of."
Franz Kafka
Writer
"If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss."
Franz Kafka
Writer
"The truth is always an abyss."
Fernando Pessoa
Poet, Writer
"We are two abysses - a well staring at the sky."
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"Truth! Truth! Truth! crieth the Lord of the Abyss of Hallucinations"
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"If you stare into the Abyss long enough the Abyss stares back at you."
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"When you gaze long into the Abyss of Sustainability, the Abyss of Sustainability also gazes into you."
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"She felt the abyss of disenchantment."
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"The human soul is an abyss"
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"I myself am an absolute abyss."
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"When you look into the abyss, it’s not supposed to wave back."
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"He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written."
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"We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us from seeing it."
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"To leap across an abyss, one is better served by faith than doubt."
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"Go back! Fall into the nothingness that awaits you and your Master."
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"And if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss."
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"Cities are the abyss of the human species."
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"I think of life as an inn where I have to stay until the abyss coach arrives. I don't know where it will take me, for I know nothing."
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"All world was one, one windy nothing, My world was christened in a stream of milk."
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"Art is what remains of religion: the dance above the yawning abyss."
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"We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life."
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"Before me is the abyss. How can I leap across it? And if I do not leap, how shall I ever be able to reach God?"
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"When you stare into an abyss for a long time, the abyss also stares into you."
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"The abyss is full of reality, the abyss experiences itself, the abyss is alive."
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