Hidden Quotes

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I told myself: 'I am surrounded by unknown things.' I imagined man without ears, suspecting the existence of sound as we suspect so many hidden… — Guy de Maupassant
Birth, life, and deathâ€• each took place on the hidden side of a leaf. — Toni Morrison
And after I dropped him off, I took the longest possible route home... I explored alleys and hidden roads I never knew existed. I discovered… — Jay Asher
Pulchritude--beauty where you would least suspect it, hidden in a word that looked like it should signify a belch or a skin infection. — Zadie Smith
Blood circulated through her veins with the fluidity of a song that branched off into the most hidden areas of her body and returned to… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is… — Deepak Chopra
A gift of any kind is a considerable responsibility. It is a mystery in itself, something gratuitous and wholly undeserved, something whose real uses will… — Flannery O'Connor
However, while being able to think about two things at the same time is a terribly convenient, the training it takes to get there is… — Patrick Rothfuss
In the shaded portions where the two spheres of different lives meet, certain fundamentals- moods, loves, fears, angers- can't be hidden. That's the contract. — Jeffery Deaver
The capital-T Truth is about life BEFORE death. It is about the real value of a real education, which has almost nothing to do with… — David Foster Wallace
Nothing is hidden, nothing is ever lost, nothing is ever forgotten. That's always been part of my problem. — Simon R. Green
There are stories, like maps that agree... too consistent among too many languages and histories to be only wishful thinking.... It is always a hidden… — Thomas Pynchon
If history is to be creative, to anticipate a possible future without denying the past, it should, I believe, emphasize new possibilities by disclosing those… — Howard Zinn
The late great Horace Lloyd Swithin (1844-1917), British essayist, lecturer, satirist, and social observer, wrote in his autobiographical Appointments, 1890-1901 (1902), "When one travels abroad,… — Marisha Pessl
After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not… — Oscar Wilde
That I am your heart's secret fills me with song. I wish I could sing of you here in my cage. You are my heart's… — Laura Whitcomb
...What is more like love than the ocean? You can play in it, drown in it...it can be clear and bright enough to hurt your… — Deb Caletti
I sometimes react to making a mistake as if I have betrayed myself. My fear of making a mistake seems to be based on the… — Hugh Prather
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Growing up, I was utterly oblivious to the fact that Mom was teaching me all that. But I was instantly aware of her final lesson,… — Ruth Reichl

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