Thread of their days without pity, and in the midst of life, without ever concerning themselves with this fatal moment, living as… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Do the structures of language and the structures of reality (by which I mean what actually happens) move along parallel lines? Does… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
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A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
The Ancient Games are relatively obscure to most Olympians, but to understand just what the Games are about, it is really necessary… — Bill Toomey Copy Share Image
Poetry, in the entire course of its development, has always been trying to capture meanings and problems which are still obscure and… — Mieczyslaw Jastrun Copy Share Image
Do they [the publishers of Murphy] not understand that if the book is slightly obscure it is because it is a compression… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet… — Frederick Pollock Copy Share Image
Oh, they never lie. They dissemble, evade, prevaricate, confound, confuse, distract, obscure, subtly misrepresent and willfully misunderstand with what often appears to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the same way, you were happy in spring, With the half colors of quarter-things, The slightly brighter sky, the melting clouds,… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Oddly, since by now I've written quite a lot on early modern philosophers, I didn't care for the history of philosophy, which… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
Mathematics is one of the most basic -- and most ancient -- types of knowledge. Yet the details of its historical development… — Ivor Grattan-Guinness Copy Share Image
I've always been into fashion and obscure articles of clothing, and while this first set of Hoods Up includes beanies, shorts, shirts,… — Ronnie Radke Copy Share Image
A disease which new and obscure to you, Doctor, will be known only after death; and even then not without an autopsy… — Herman Boerhaave Copy Share Image
What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I am never needlessly obscure - I am needfully obscure, when I am obscure. — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
We have the words in our pockets, obscure directions. The old ones have taken away the light of their presence. — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
The world rarely shrieks its meaning at you. It whispers, in private languages and obscure modalities, in arcane and quixotic imagery, through… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
I don't think I'd have any friends if I didn't obscure at least 99% of my thoughts. — Jon Richardson Copy Share Image
A human heart that matched what we think of as heart-shaped - a perfectly formed bright red thing with two halves of… — George Fetherling Copy Share Image
And even should the cloud of barbarism and despotism again obscure the science and libraries of Europe, this country remains to preserve… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“You must always reserve a question for people who think you are proud when you talk about your dreams! The question is… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
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