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It's calm under the waves in the blue of my oblivion.
Fiona Apple
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Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.
Robert Macfarlane
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He realized that all his life he had been a nobody to everyone. What he now felt was the fear of his own oblivion. It was as though he did not exist.
Patrick Süskind
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For me, each game is a new challenge, which has to be dealt with rationally and systematically. At that time, every other thought fades into oblivion.
Viswanathan Anand
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It is necessary to abandon yourself completely, and let the music do as it will with you. All people come to music to seek oblivion.
Claude Debussy
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I surf because it keeps my life at an even keel, without it I would tip into the oblivion.
Andy Irons
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No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away.
Haruki Murakami
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Do you really like a particular stock? Put 10% or so of your portfolio on it. Make the idea count … Good [investment] ideas should not be diversified away into meaningless oblivion.
Bill Gross
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But truths need to be repeated many times so that they don't, poor things, lapse into oblivion.
Jose Saramago
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I am a composer in search of oblivion; and I'm always slightly ashamed to admit that I compose.
Alexander Borodin
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How many after being celebrated by fame have been given up to oblivion; and how many who have celebrated the fame of others have long been dead.
Marcus Aurelius
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But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated principle.
[Lat., Sed profecto Fortuna in omni re dominatur; ea res cunctas ex lubidine magis, quam ex vero, celebrat, obscuratque.]
Sallust
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The one stroke marks the difference between fame and oblivion.
Samuel Parris
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Like a jar you housed the infinite tenderness, and the infinite oblivion shattered you like a jar.
Pablo Neruda
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The panorama-city is a 'theoretical' (that is, visual) simulacrum, in short a picture, whose condition of possibility is an oblivion and a misunderstanding of practices.
Michel de Certeau
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... the current of time slowing down in the gravitational field of oblivion.
W. G. Sebald
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Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.
Antoine Rivarol
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Ultimately, you're left with the people you love and who love you- everything else fades into oblivion.
Nicole Kidman
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Oblivion waits without beckoning or threatening.
Mason Cooley
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Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.
Oscar Wilde
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We could either develop paradise on Earth or oblivion; wipe ourselves out, only the future will tell. It's what you do to make the future.
Jacque Fresco
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It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.
Max Beerbohm
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Pain and Oblivion make mankind afraid to die; but all creatures are afraid of the one, none but mankind afraid of the other.
Margaret Cavendish
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Are you willing to be sponged out, erased, cancelled, made nothing? Are you willing to be made nothing? Dipped into oblivion? If not, you will never really change.
D. H. Lawrence
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The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.
George Steiner
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Everybody dies, Sally. The thing is to die well.
Tom Cruise
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OBLIVION, n. The state or condition in which the wicked cease from struggling and the dreary are at rest. Fame's eternal dumping ground.
Ambrose Bierce
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There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.
John Green
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Human destiny is an episode between two oblivions.
Ernest Nagel
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And if I drink oblivion of a day, / So shorten I the stature of my soul.
George Meredith
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There are no guarantees. But there is also nothing to fear. We come from oblivion when we are born. We return to oblivion when we die. The astonishing thing is this period of in-between.
Roger Ebert
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Oblivion is the flower that grows best on graves.
George Sand
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Death is the stone into which our oblivion hardens.
Pablo Neruda
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All other days have either disappeared into darkness and oblivion or not yet emerged from it. Today is the only day there is.
Frederick Buechner
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God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion.
Pliny the Elder
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There are many great authors of the past who have survived centuries of oblivion and neglect, but it is still an open question whether they will be able to survive an entertaining version of what they have to say.
Hannah Arendt
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I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it
Taylor Caldwell
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There is no revenge like oblivion, for it is the entombment of the unworthy in the dust of their own nothingness.
Baltasar Gracian
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Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
Jorge Luis Borges
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While obsession with one’s personal appearance is a sign of being a vacant prat, total oblivion to it is a sign of mental illness.
Kate Cann
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And what importance do I have in the courtroom of oblivion?
Pablo Neruda
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On an overcrowded planet where more species slip toward extinction every day, should one species have the right to multiply and consume at will, even as it nudges others to oblivion?
Thomas French