The sense of an entailed disadvantage -- the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active spiritual yeast, and easily turns a self-centered, unloving nature into an Ishmaelite. But in the rarer sort, who presently see their own frustrated claim as one among a myriad, the inexorable sorrow takes the form of fellowship and makes the imagination tender.
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Destiny is an absolutely definite and inexorable ruler. Physical ability and moral determination count for nothing. It is impossible to perform the simplest act when the gods say no. I have no idea how they bring pressure to bear on such occasions; I only know that it is irresistible.
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Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.
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Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.
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What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart What jailer so inexorable as one's self
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However much we talk of the inexorable laws governing the life of individuals and of societies, we remain at the bottom convinced that in human affairs everything in more or less fortuitous. We do not even believe in the inevitability of our own death. Hence the difficulty of deciphering the present, of detecting the seeds of things to come as they germinate before our eyes. We are not attuned to seeing the inevitable.
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The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden. Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; law, social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its monstrous flowers and its hideous instruments of eternal human suffering.
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Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need a sense of life's possibilities.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature's inexorable imperative.
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In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly ob...
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It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, That those who will not risk cannot win.
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Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.
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He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
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