1. Logan Pearsall Smith - “All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.”

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2. Friedrich Nietzsche - “And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”

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3. Friedrich Nietzsche - “Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”

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4. Friedrich Nietzsche - “Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman — a rope over an abyss.”

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5. Vladimir Nabokov - “The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.”

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6. Henri Frédéric Amiel - “At the bottom of the modern man there is always a great thirst for self-forgetfulness, self-distraction ... and therefore he turns away from all those problems and abysses which might recall to him his own nothingness.”

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