"Liberation is an evershifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises."
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"It is the eye which makes the horizon."
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"There are no black holes - in the sense of regimes from which light can't escape to infinity. There are however apparent horizons which persist for a period of time."
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"At last, she makes her choice. She turns around, drops her head, and walks toward a horizon she cannot see. After that, she does not look back anymore. She knows that if she does, she will weaken."
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"There's no more delicious irony on the face of the Earth than environmental protesters being led away in plastic handcuffs that have a biodegradability horizon line of, like, 40,000 years."
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"In the vast reaches of the dry, cold night, thousands of stars were constantly appearing, and their sparkling icicles, loosened at once, began to slip gradually toward the horizon."
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"Once you have met a true human being, Let him not disappear from the horizon of your HEART."
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"There will always be those who feel more comfortable not venturing from the warmth of the hearth, but there are those who prefer to look out the window and wonder what is beyond the horizon."
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"There are none happy in the world but beings who enjoy freely a vast horizon."
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"Could it be that sexual perversion and romanticism sprang from the same longing for distant horizons?"
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"Everyone [in higher education] was what I call drillers of deeper wells. These academics sit at the bottom of a deep well and they look up and see a sliver of the sky. They know everything about that little sliver of sky and nothing else. I scan all my horizons."
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"In my own work, I've tried to anticipate what's coming over the horizon, to hasten its arrival, and to apply it to people's lives in a meaningful way."
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"Our horizon is the creation of a noble society to which, like the medieval builder of those glorious cathedrals, you will have added your conception, your artful piece of stone."
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"In S Club I played a role in a band, but now I can go off and be me - My horizon's wide open now. It's scary and it's daunting, but it's an absolute thrill. I feel brand new!"
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"There is a property in the horizon which no man has, but he whose eyes can integrate all the parts,--that is, the poet."
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"Often I have thought of the day when I gazed for the first time at the sea. The sea is vast, the sea is wide, my eyes roved far and wide and longed to be free. But there was the horizon. Why a horizon, when I wanted the infinite from life?"
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"Every historian discloses a new horizon."
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"If you want to see what a society really believes in, look at what the biggest buildings on the horizon are dedicated to."
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"They cared for no one, they were outside humanity, and death, had it come, would only have continued their pursuit of a retreating horizon."
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"Every blessing ignored becomes a curse. I don't want anything else in life. But you are forcing me to look at wealth and at horizons I have never known. Now that I have seen them, and now that I see how immense my possibilities are, I'm going to feel worse than I did before you arrived. Because I know the things I should be able to accomplish, and I don't want to do so."
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