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Blue oblivion, largely lit, smiled and smiled at me. William Rose Benet

Blue, Me, Lit, Smiled, Largely

Personally, I would not care for immortality in the least. There is nothing better than oblivion, since in oblivion there is no wish unfulfilled. We had it before we were born yet did not complain. Shall we whine because we know it will return? It is Elysium enough for me, at any rate. H. P. Lovecraft

Me, Wish, Care, Better, Enough, Know

Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; riches take wings; the only earthly certainty is oblivion. Horace Greeley

Fame, Wings, Popularity, Certainty, Only

Because advertising and marketing is an art, the solution to each new problem or challenge should begin with a blank canvas and an open mind, not with the nervous borrowings of other people's mediocrities. That's precisely what 'trends' are - a search for something 'safe' - and why a reliance on them leads to oblivion. George Lois

Art, Challenge, People, Mind, Search

Apathy is a sort of living oblivion. Horace Greeley

Living, Apathy, Sort

We are born, we live, we disappear. One of the chilling aspects of history is the swiftness with which it carries us into oblivion. David Ebershoff

History, Live, Born, Disappear, Us

The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former. Alfred A. Montapert

History, Obstacles, Reward, See, Few

Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion. Philip Wylie

Ignorance, Bliss

While silence can in some circumstances bespeak noble self-control, it can also signify suppression, oblivion or cowardice. Ephraim Mirvis

Silence, Circumstances, Noble, Cowardice

A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion. Umberto Eco

Life, Nature, Time, War, Book, Hands

I think personality correction is necessary for successful men, like prime ministers, businessmen, politicians... it's essential that one should keep an eye on one's own personality. You must have seen people in politics who become chief ministers and then pass into oblivion - how egotistical they became and how pathetic they look. Dilip Kumar

Politics, Personality, Men, People, Eye

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion. Richard M. Nixon

Politics, Finishing, You, Silver, Second

The trouble is not that schools don't work; they do. They're excellent machines for achieving historically accepted purposes. In suburban schools are children of the rich, who grow up to privilege and anesthetic oblivion to pain - and who then use the servants produced by ghetto schools. Jonathan Kozol

Work, Children, Pain, Rich, Grow, Ghetto

Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity! George A. Smith

Nature, Peace, Man, Past, Find, Purity

An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature. Auguste Renoir

Nature, Confidence, Pain, Artist, Listen

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep? James Thurber

Fear, Sleep, Darkness, Matter, Soft

Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built. Daniel Libeskind

Competition, Architecture, Winning, Idea

The state of Israel seems to owe its very existence to the American Jewish vote, while at the same time consigning the non-religious to political oblivion. Richard Dawkins

Time, Vote, American, Political, Same

It is difficult to think of anything more important than providing the best education possible for our children. They will develop the next technologies, medical cures, and global industries, while mitigating their unintended effects, or they will fail to do these things and consign us all to oblivion. Sam Harris

Education, Children, Best, Medical, Will

Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step, bit by bit, as the river creates a canyon, the way of life that we love. Chuck Schumer

Life, Love, Path, Step, Road, River

Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations. Raymond Chandler

Power, Writing, Ideas, Thinking, Short

Time's stern tide, with cold Oblivion's wave, Shall soon dissolve each fair, each fading charm. Anna Seward

Time, Cold, Wave, Tide, Charm, Fair

Horror fiction shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion. Clive Barker

Moment, Chaos, Believe, Control, Horror

You write about experiences partly to understand what they mean, partly not to lose them to time. To oblivion. But there's always the danger of the opposite happening. Losing the memory of the experience itself to the memory of writing about it. Sigrid Nunez

Time, Experience, Memory, Losing, You

We're not planning for the future. If we continue to spend ourselves into oblivion, we are going to destroy this nation. Ben Carson

Future, Planning, Nation, Destroy, Going

I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity. Tallulah Bankhead

Man, Way, Standards, Obscurity, Known

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