Isabel Allende
Novelist
"You are my angel and my damnation; in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell."
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Damnation
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Umberto Eco
Writer, Philosopher, Literary Critic
"Idiot. Above her head was the only stable point in the cosmos, the only refuge from the damnation of the panta rei, and she guessed it was the Pendulum's business. A moment later the couple went off -- he, trained on some textbook that had blunted his capacity for wonder, she, inert and insensitive to the thrill of the infinite, both oblivious of the awesomeness of their encounter -- their first and last encounter -- with the One, the Ein-Sof, the Ineffable. How could you fail to kneel down before this altar of certitude?"
Stephen King
Author
"Sometimes there is absolutely no difference at all between salvation and damnation."
Samuel Beckett
Playwright, Novelist
"That double-headed monster of damnation and salvation--Time."
Charles Bukowski
Poet, Novelist
"The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation."
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"even damnation is poisoned with rainbows."
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"Suddenly to realise that one is sitting, damned, among the other damned--it is a most disquieting experience; so disquieting thatmost of us react to it by immediately plunging more deeply into our particular damnation in the hope, generally realized, that we may be able, at least for a time, to stifle our revolutionary knowledge."
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"The Sacraments are the salvation of those who use them rightly, and the damnation of those who misuse them."
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"I don't know if I ever really bought into the eternal damnation bit."
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"If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation. Whoever concerns himself with big technology, either to push it forward or to stop it, is gambling in human lives."
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"Goddamn you," Jacob said. "There's no damnation, Jacob. No Heaven but the forest and no God but the hive."
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"If it were conceivable that in obeying God one should bring about one's own damnation whilst in disobeying him one could be saved, I should still choose the way of obedience."
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"There is an old, old story about a theologian who was asked to reconcile the Doctrine of Divine Mercy with the doctrine of infant damnation. 'The Almighty,' he explained, 'finds it necessary to do things in His official and public capacity which in His private and personal capacity He deplores."
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"I finally broke into the prison I found my place in the chain Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows"
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"You are damned, and we wish to share your damnation."
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"...in his gambling, he had one besetting weakness -- faith in a system; and this made his damnation certain."
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"If ever I utter an oath again may my soul be blasted to eternal damnation!"
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"All good writers express the state of their souls, even (as occurs in some cases of very good writers) if it is a state of damnation."
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"Presbyterianism without infant damnation would be like the dog on the train that couldn't be identified because it had lost its tag."
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