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Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility.

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.

A woman as the leader of the Free World is an impossibility. Muslim countries won't talk to you.

Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.

While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility.

Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity.

If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators today to assume the impossibility of our providing for ourselves.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.

The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.

An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things.

Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.

The impossibility of a retreat makes no difference in the situation of men resolved to conquer or die; and, believe me, my friends, if your conquest could be bought with the blood of your general, he would most cheerfully resign a life which he has long devoted to his country.