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- Acutely aware of the poverty of my means, language became obstacle. At every page I thought, 'That's not it.' So I began… — Elie Wiesel
- Yet so often it seems that victory eludes us. It is when our self-confidence is finally destroyed and is replaced with dependence… — K.P. Yohannan
- It is an absolutely vain endeavor to attempt to reconstruct or even comprehend the nature of a human being by simply knowing… — Wilhelm von Humboldt
- All that is best for us comes of itself into our hands-but if we strive to overtake it, it perpetually eludes us. — Ananda Coomaraswamy
- The past slips from our grasp. It leaves us only scattered things. The bond that united them eludes us. Our imagination usually… — Igor Stravinsky
- The creative act is also in a small way a suffering act - we start out with our ego, this hope of… — Michael Leunig
- Eternity eludes us, even as a thought. — Mason Cooley
- If wisdom in government eludes us, perhaps courage could substitute-the moral courage to terminate mistakes. — Barbara Tuchman
- The stories we sit up late to hear are love stories. It seems that we cannot know enough about this riddle of… — Jeanette Winterson
- Love is always changing and, unless we stay aware and change with it, it eludes us. — Leo Buscaglia
- When 'happiness' eludes us - as, eventually, it always will - we have the invitation to examine our programmed responses and to… — Richard Rohr
- Many of you have already found out, and others will find out in the course of their lives, that truth eludes us… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn