Difficult Quotes

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Over the years I knew her she always looked at me like that - as though I was a quite pleasant but amusing object -… — James Herriot
To be enlightened is to be aware, always, of total reality in its immanent otherness - to be aware of it and yet remain in… — Aldous Huxley
Most of our platitudes notwithstanding, self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The tricks that work on others count for nothing in that very well-lit back… — Joan Didion
Love in all its forms is very difficult ... to express. It changes, obviously. If youâ€™re young, and youâ€™re romantically in love with somebody, and… — Dylan Moran
Anything outside yourself, this you can see and apply your logic to it. But itâ€™s a human trait that when we encounter personal problems, these… — Frank Herbert
Jessica, I know I've been...difficult," he said. "All the sameâ€”" "Difficult?" She looked up, her grey eyes wide, "You have been impossible. I begin to… — Loretta Chase
I understood at once, I am not living, but actively dying. I am smoking, living unhealthily. Iâ€™m shutting down. I need to go the other… — Augusten Burroughs
He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace… — Leo Tolstoy
He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet. — Anne Carson
In this world, there is no absolute good, no absolute evil," the man said. "Good and evil are not fixed, stable entities, but are continually… — Haruki Murakami
They take the circuits out of peopleâ€™s brains that make it possible for them to think for themselves. Their world is like the one that… — Haruki Murakami
I have made calculations that would beggar your soul. What is it that villains always say at the end of stories? You and I are… — Catherynne M. Valente
Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what… — Stephen Hawking
Then, without any warning, we both straightened up, turned towards each other, and began to kiss. After that, it is difficult for me to speak… — Paul Auster
I donâ€™t know [why we're here]. People sometimes say to me, â€˜Why donâ€™t you admit that the humming bird, the butterfly, the Bird of Paradise… — David Attenborough
Someone once said anyone can be great under rosy circumstances, but the true test of character is measured by how well a person makes decisions… — Jack Gantos
Ok," he said, "I don't like to disturb you at what I know must be a difficult and distressing time for you, but I need… — Douglas Adams
Oh, God, I don't know what's more difficult, life or the English language. — Jonathan Ames
Yet is was very difficult to seperate her interpretation, and keep it distinct from his meaning. — Elizabeth Gaskell
Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe that, watch an… — John Steinbeck

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