Hope, then, though in its nature unrealizable, is not a mere notion; for so long as it continues hope, it is to the mind an object and an object to be realized; so, where its form is eternal, it cannot but be to it an ever-during object.

It gives doubtless an exaggerated view of the action, though from the effects of repulsion which I have produced, I should say it is by no means an unrealizable condition.

This project, alas! is unrealizable, as sentries are posted day and night at each extremity of the passage.

Des Esseintes spoke of his unrealizable longings.