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Dr. Kertesz mentioned to me a case known to him of a farmer who had developed prosopagnosia and in consequence could no longer distinguish (the… — Oliver Sacks
It is not inertia alone that is responsible for human relationships repeating themselves from case to case, indescribably monotonous and unrenewed: it is shyness before… — Rainer Maria Rilke
It often happens that we blurt out things that may in some kind of way be harmful to us, but we are silent about things… — Arthur Schopenhauer
I become one of those people who walks alone in the dark at night while others sleep or watch Mary Tyler Moore reruns or pull… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which… — Virginia Woolf
the world is neither meaningful, nor absurd. it quite simply is, and that, in any case, is what is so remarkable about it. — Alain Robbe-Grillet
In religion and politics peopleâ€™s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves… — Mark Twain
â€¦He was always high on drugs. I was not a drug man, but in case I wanted to hide from myself for a few days,… — Charles Bukowski
You're right, a spleen is a strange thing-we technically don't need one, but maybe spleens are kept in our bodies in case we mutate or… — Douglas Coupland
We all have such fateful objects -- it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another -- carefully chosen by the… — Vladimir Nabokov
I have been told I've got a darkish personality. A few times." Takahashi swings his trombone case from his right shoulder to his left. Then… — Haruki Murakami
Some say it is best not to go near the center of time. Life is a vessel of sadness, but is noble to live life… — Alan Lightman
Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave the key to his best friend… — Anais Nin
In physics the truth is rarely perfectly clear, and that is certainly universally the case in human affairs. Hence, what is not surrounded by uncertainty… — Richard P. Feynman
Nanny Ogg looked under her bed in case there was a man there. Well, you never knew your luck. — Terry Pratchett
The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my case. — George W. Bush
We're free Narnians, Hwin and I, and I suppose, if you're running away to Narnia you want to be one too. In that case Hwin… — C.S. Lewis
If anyone spends almost the whole day in reading...he gradually loses the capacity for thinking...This is the case with many learned persons; they have read… — Arthur Schopenhauer
in dreams it is often the case that the greatest extravagances seem bereft of their power to astonish and the most improbable chimeras seem commonplace. — Cormac McCarthy
Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it… — Flannery O'Connor

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