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  • Its subtlest, most appealing accomplishment may be in how other characters respond to Gregorius' precipitous swerve onto the spiritual path. (...) That said, Night Train to Lisbon is a very long, ambitious book that's feverishly overwritten. (...) Think of W.G. Sebald recast for the mass market: stripped of nuance, cooked at high temperature and pounded home, clause after clause. Some of the clumsiness derives from Barbara Harshav's inelegant translation -- we're often aware of her struggle -- but she can't be blamed for the pervasive bloat.

  • Senseless is the breast and cold Which relenting love would fold; Bloodless are the veins and chill Which the pulse of pain did fill; Every little living nerve That from bitter words did swerve Round the tortur'd lips and brow, Are like sapless leaflets now Frozen upon December's bough.

    Pain   Pulse   Nerves  
  • Swerve me? The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run. Over unsounded gorges, through the rifled hearts of mountains, under torrents' beds, unerringly I rush! Naught's an obstacle, naught's an angle to the iron way!

    Running   Heart   Iron  
    Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.161
  • What moralists describe as the mysteries of the human heart are solely the deceiving thoughts, the spontaneous impulses of self-regard. The sudden changes in character, about which so much has been said, are instinctive calculations for the furtherance of our own pleasures. Seeing himself now in his fine clothes, his new gloves and shoes, Eugène de Rastignac forgot his noble resolve. Youth, when it swerves toward wrong, dares not look in the mirror of conscience; maturity has already seen itself there. That is the whole difference between the two phases of life.

  • Do you know this Sanskrit Shloka: "Let those who are versed in the ethical codes praise or blame, let Lakshmi, the goddess of Fortune, come or go wherever she wisheth, let death overtake him today or after a century, the wise man never swerves from the path of rectitude." Let people praise you or blame you, let fortune smile or frown upon you, let your body fall today or after a Yuga, see that you do not deviate from the path of Truth.

    Wise   Fall   Men  
  • If you weren't driving, I'd kiss you senseless," I tell him. He swerves to the side of the road and stops the car abruptly. "Not driving any more.

    Kissing   Car   Sides  
  • The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian.

  • They also live Who swerve and vanish in the river.

    Rivers   Swerve  
    Archibald MacLeish (1985). “Collected Poems, 1917-1982”, p.412, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • The greatest obstacle to pleasure is not pain; it is delusion.

    Stephen Greenblatt (2011). “The Swerve: How the World Became Modern”, p.177, W. W. Norton & Company
  • And I suddenly think, as I look across the table at him, that these are the days as they will be. This is the future as we see it. The swerve and the static. The confidence and the doubt.

    Thinking   Doubt   Looks  
    Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.242, Bloomsbury Publishing
  • The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run

    Running   Iron   Soul  
    Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.161
  • Public opinion which, to be sure, can at times be helpful, must never for an instant swerve us from what we know in our heart we are trying to convey. For honesty is the great requisite of art. If we remain honest with ourselves, art, which is always there, never lets us down.

    Art   Honesty   Trying  
  • The Bible has come under fire for making woman the fall guy in man's cosmic drama. But in casting a male conspirator, the serpent, as God's enemy, Genesis hedges and does not take its misogyny far enough. The Bible defensively swerves from God's true opponent, chthonian nature. The serpent is not outside Eve but in her. She is the garden and the serpent.

    Drama   Fall   Men  
    Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.38, Canongate Books
  • Look in, and see Christ's chosen saint In triumph wear his Christ-like chain; No fear lest he should swerve or faint; "His life is Christ, his death is gain.

    Looks   Gains   Triumph  
    John Keble (1842). “The Christian year [by J. Keble, ed. by G.W. Doane]. 1st Amer. ed. 3rd Amer. ed”, p.273
  • The Holy Spirit is the immediate source of all holiness. He is entirely sincere, and perfect in love. He is generous. He is pure in heart, free from selfishness, and never swerves from the path of duty. He is deep like a fountain. He sends forth his virtues in due season. He speaks, and men believe him; he acts, and men are gladdened by him. He possesses all heavenly virtues. He is one with Heaven.

    Believe   Heart   Men  
  • And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.

    Cities   Upbraid   Blind  
    William Shakespeare (2015). “Troilus and Cressida: Third Series, Revised Edition”, p.183, Bloomsbury Publishing
  • The aphorism: a platitude that swerves, or slides all the way around.

    Way   Slides   Aphorism  
  • In short, it became possible - never easy, but possible - in the poet Auden's phrase to find the mortal world enough.

    Phrases   World   Poet  
    Stephen Greenblatt (2011). “The Swerve: How the World Became Modern”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company
  • Eyes are at rest, the stars are setting. Hushed are the stirrings of birds in their nests, Of monsters in the ocean. You are the Just who knows no change, The Balance that can never swerve, The Eternal which never passes away. The doors of Kings are bolted now and guarded by soldiers. Your Door is open to all who call upon You. Each love is now alone with his beloved. And I am alone with You.

    Wisdom   Kings   Stars  
  • The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.

    Suicide   Suicidal   Men  
    "The New Gods". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1969.
  • What were you thinking? You just met him. (Selena) I know. It’s so not like me, but I couldn’t help myself. It was just like that weird magnetic force that grabs me when I’m walking past the Frostbyte Café and makes me swerve in to get a triple scoop of Ben and Jerry’s Chunky Monkey. The power of temptation was just too much, Selena. I couldn’t resist it. He was a Chunky Monkey container and all I could think was, ‘Someone give me a spoon.’ (Sunshine)

  • Do your duty, and don't swerve from it. Do that which your conscience tells you to be right, and leave the consequences to God.

  • Prophet may you be! If I be false, or swerve a hair from truth, when time is old and hath forgot itself, when waterdrops have worn the stones of Troy, and blind oblivion swallowed cities up, and mighty states characterless are grated to dusty nothing, yet let memory, from false to false, among false maids in love, upbraid my falsehood!

    Memories   Hair   Cities  
    William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.1172, Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Sound... if you look at bats you know that navigate with sonar, they're like you know they're very precise. They can even see a bat head towards a building and swerve away, but you'll see a bird that doesn't... you know smash right into a glass window. It's very funny.

    Glasses   Bird   Sound  
    Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. April 8, 2010.
  • Art always penetrates the particular fissures in one's psychic life.

    Art   Psychics   Swerve  
    Stephen Greenblatt (2011). “The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began”, p.3, Random House
  • Historians ought to be precise, faithful, and unprejudiced; and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should make them swerve from the way of truth.

    Hatred   Faithful   Way  
    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1809). “Don Quixote”, p.62
  • For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.

    Mother   Past   Hatred  
  • Just swerve Golovkin like the plague. He punches like a mule. I don't need to be in with him. Dangerous fight.

    Fighting   Needs   Mules  
  • In Christ we see a maturity of love that flowers in self-sacrifice and forgiveness; a maturity of power that never swerves from the ideal of service; a maturity of goodness that overcomes every temptation, and, of course, we see the ultimate victory of life over death itself.

  • For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

    Years   Shining   Age  
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