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The "through-and-through" universe seems to suffocate me with its infallible impeccable all-pervasiveness. Its necessity , with no possibilities; its relations, with no subjects, make me feel as if I had entered into a contract with no reserved rights ... It seems too buttoned-up and white-chokered and clean-shaven a thing to speak for the vast slow-breathing unconscious Kosmos with its dread abysses and its unknown tides.
William James
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As a child walking over a slippery and dangerous path cries out, " Father, I am falling! " and has but a moment to catch his father's hand, so every believer sees hours when only the hand of Jesus comes between him and the abysses of destruction.

theodore l. cuyler

— P. 89. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))

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We are two abysses — a well staring at the sky.

fernando pessoa

— Original: Somos dois abismos — um poço fitando o céu.
— Ibid., p. 48

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We are two abysses a well staring at the sky.


— Original: Somos dois abismos — um poço fitando o céu.
— Ibid., p. 48

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Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.


— Thomas Henry Huxley, letter to Charles Kingsley (September 23, 1860); reported in Leonard Huxley, Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley (1900, reprinted 1979), vol. 1, p. 235.

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Give with a heart glowing with generous sentiments; give as the fountain gives out its waters from its own swelling depths; give as the air gives its vital breezes, unrestrained and free; give as the sun gives out its light, from the infinite abysses of its own nature.


— Augustine of Hippo, p. 25. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))

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   Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatsoever abysses Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.


— 1860  Letter to Charles Kingsley.

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