"The less there is of you, the more you experience the sublime."
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"Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night."
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"He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life."
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"For me, the cooking life has been a long love affair, with moments both sublime and ridiculous."
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"To forgive a fault in another is more sublime than to be faultless one's self."
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"Without minute neatness of execution, the sublime cannot exist! Grandeur of ideas is founded on precision of ideas."
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"No words will ever describe the exquisite beauty and charm of this mountain park – Nature’s landscape garden at once tenderly beautiful and sublime. No wonder it draws nature-lovers from all over the world."
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"The power of one fair face makes my love sublime, for it has weaned my heart from low desires."
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"As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer."
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"You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the sublime fountain gushes from within you, no longer need you steal from the other fountains."
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"A friend to kill time is a friend sublime."
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"In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in the present moment and will never be more divine in the lapse of the ages. Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but when I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away but eternity remains."
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"There's a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness."
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"He had opened his heart to the sublime indifference of the universe"
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"Melancholy characterizes those with a superb sense of the sublime."
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"Neither man nor nation can exist without a sublime idea."
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"Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man."
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"I don't believe the half I hear, Nor the quarter of what I see! But I have one faith, sublime and true, That nothing can shake or slay; Each spring I firmly believe anew All the seed catalogues say!"
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"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."
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"'Mind and matter,' said the lady in the wig, 'glide swift into the vortex if immensity. Howls the sublime, and softly sleeps the calm Ideal, in the whispering chambers of Imagination.'"
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