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title: "3 Strange Foreign Quotes by 3 authors"
description: "Browse 3 Strange Foreign quotes by 3 authors. Discover the best Strange Foreign sayings and thoughts."
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> [We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can "show off" and astonish…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/we-wish-to-learn-all-the-curious-outlandish-ways-of-all-the-different/)

[Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/db3/mark-twain-22_country_we-wish-to-learn-all-the-curious-outland_871892.png)

> [The universe seems to me infinitely strange and foreign. At such a moment I gaze upon it with a mixture of anguish…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eug-ne-ionesco/the-universe-seems-to-me-infinitely-strange-and-foreign-at-such-a/)

[Eugene Ionesco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eug-ne-ionesco/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b28/eug-ne-ionesco-1878_anguish_the-universe-seems-to-me-infinitely-stra_987308.jpg)

> [“The writer is a secret criminal. How? First because writing tries to undertake the journey toward strange sources of art that are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-ne-cixous/the-writer-is-a-secret-criminal-how-first-because-writing-tries-to/)

[Hélène Cixous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-ne-cixous/)

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