Victor Serge died in exile and obscurity, apparently no more than a splinter of a splinter in the Marxist movement. But with… — I. F. Stone Copy Share Image
All that belongs to human understanding, in this deep ignorance and obscurity, is to be sceptical, or at least cautious, and not… — David Hume Copy Share Image
If we were in the habit of reading poets their obscurity would not matter; and, once we are out of the habit,… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.” — Jason Fried Copy Share Image
In the vast cosmical changes, the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities, ... sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Don't be a writer; it's a terrible way to live your life. There's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Regardless of Bill Clinton's politics or personal life, he grew up in obscurity and was elected to the presidency - twice. Don't… — Mike Huckabee 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
Time in its irresistible and ceaseless flow carries along on its flood all created things and drowns them in the depths of… — Anna Komnene Copy Share Image
What importance can we attach to the things of this world? Friendship? It disappears when the one who is liked comes to… — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
The door was locked and Alexia, resourceful as she was, had not yet learned to pick locks. Though she mentally added it… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
I just remember their kindness and goodness to me, and their peacefulness and their utter simplicity. They inspired real reverence, and I… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
We must understand how to hide in darkness in order to escape the gnat-swarms of utterly annoying admirers. — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
I do not enjoy the promotional side of being a writer, to be blunt about it. Even with the little amount that… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
Speech is highly elliptical. It would scarcely be endurable otherwise. Ellipsis is indispensable to the writer or speaker who wants to be… — Bergen Evans Copy Share Image
The human mind is indeed a cave swarming with strange forms of life, most of them unconscious and unilluminated. Unless we can… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
“Obscurity makes success undefined because success is crowned by sharing what you have with people who need it; you can't share if… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“By the aid of philosophy you will live not unpleasantly, for you will learn to extract pleasure from all places and things:… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
John Major is what he is: a man from nowhere, going nowhere, heading for a well-merited obscurity as fast as his mediocre… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
Three hundred men, who all know each other direct the economic destinies of the Continent and they look for successors among their… — Walther Rathenau Copy Share Image
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