1. "When the centre of gravity of life is placed, not in life itself, but in the beyond—in nothingness—then one has taken away its centre of gravity altogether."
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Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist
2. "It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe."
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Quote by Thomas Carlyle
3. "the gravity of past success."
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Garry Kasparov, Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped
4. "adaptedness) of the conscious mind by adding to it contents of the unconscious, our aim is to create a wider personality whose centre of gravity does not necessarily coincide with the ego, but which, on the contrary, as the patient’s insights increase, may even thwart his [sheer] ego-tendencies. Like a magnet, the new centre [i.e., self] attracts to itself that which is proper to it.80"
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C.G. Jung, The Gnostic Jung: Including
5. "the gravity of wound to fist"
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Karen Russell, Swamplandia!
6. "Gravity is the curvature of space."
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Heinz R. Pagels, The Cosmic Code
7. "She was one of those languid women, made of dark honey, smooth and sweet, and terribly sticky, who take control of a room with a syrupy gesture, a toss of the hair, a single slow whiplash of the eyes — and all the while remain as still as the centre of a hurricane, apparently unaware of the force of gravity by which they irresistibly attract themselves the yearnings and the souls of both men and women."
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Quote by Patrick Süskind
8. "A screaming vampire is always the centre of attention."
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Terry Pratchett, The Truth
10. "defects. I escape the force of gravity again when"
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Philip Yancey, What's So Amazing About Grace?