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7889 Certain quotes by 4693 unique authors

[M]an is condemned to be free. Condemned, because he did not create himself, in other respect is free; because, once thrown into the world, he… — Jean-Paul Sartre
In the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all the holders of houses above a certain rent are women. If a married… — Elizabeth Gaskell
There is indeed a certain sense of gratification when we do a good deed that gives us inward satisfaction, and a generous pride that accompanies… — Michel de Montaigne
Quiet descended, a silence so consuming that even the drafty corridors ceased whistling. Bog wasn't certain where to look, so he solved the problem by… — A. Lee Martinez
Beyond a certain age, sincerity ceases to feel pornographic. — Douglas Coupland
Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street. — James Thurber
It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over you as soon as… — George Orwell
.. the truth is what you can't see but are certain of anyway. — Rachel Klein
I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I… — Rene Descartes
Even if it seems certain that you will lose, retaliate. Neither wisdom nor technique has a place in this. A real man does not think… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
At first I saw you everywhere. Now only in certain things, at longer intervals. — Louise GluÌˆck
The traveling salesmen fed me pills that made the lining of my veins feel scraped out, my jaw ached... I knew every raindrop by its… — Denis Johnson
This cell belongs to a brain, and it is my brain, the brain of me who is writing; and the cell in question, and within… — Primo Levi
It would be better for us to have some doubts in an honest pursuit of truth, than it would be for us to be certain… — Daniel Wallace
Strange, the desire for certain pleasures is a part of my pain. — Khalil Gibran
He was right in saying that the only certain happiness in life is to live for others. — Leo Tolstoy
After a certain age, you couldn't even say where you were from. You went someplace, and lived there. And then you went someplace else. — Daniel Handler
You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A… — Nelson Algren
Weren’t all books ultimately related? After all, the same letters filled them, just arranged in a different order. Which meant that, in a certain way,… — Cornelia Funke
They knew many things but had no idea why. And strangely this made them more, rather than less, certain that they were right. — Neal Stephenson
I wasn't quite as certain that I knew her soul. When it came right down to it, I wasn't sure she knew me either. — Alice Hoffman
I had become a kind of information magpie, gathering to myself all manner of shiny scraps of fact and hokum and books and art-history and… — Salman Rushdie
There had been certain romantic interludes in the past that had included galloping across the desert at night; but he had never abducted any woman… — Robin McKinley
Sometimes I had the feeling that all of us in his family were like pets to him. The dog you take for a walk, the… — Bernhard Schlink
While I sleep, I dream of you, and when I wake, I long to hold you in my arms. If anything, our time apart has… — Nicholas Sparks

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