Hidden Quotes
1704 quotes by 1178 authors
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For what are we looking for if not to please? I do not know if the desire to attract others comes from a superabundance of…
— Francoise Sagan
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There're things we keep hidden from one another. Things we hide from ourselves. Things that are kept hidden from us. And things no one knows.…
— Jim Butcher
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Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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You in the back," said the principal. "Don't think you can hide. Tell me. What would you like to be?" "Dangerous," said the hidden girl,…
— Kirsten Miller
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Only Thee That I want thee, only thee---let my heart repeat without end. All desires that distract me, day and night, are false and empty…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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I sing of a woman with ink on her hands and pictures hidden beneath her hair. I sing of a dog with skin like velvet…
— Carolyn Parkhurst
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A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though…
— John Muir
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The Detective was different. Not that he wasn't a good man; Willie had heard enough about him to understand that he was the kind who…
— John Connolly
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We need to look at the subtle, the hidden, and the unspoken.
— Malcolm Gladwell
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Perhaps they were looking for passion; perhaps they delved into this book as into a mysterious parcel - a gift box at the bottom of…
— Margaret Atwood
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That was the thing: Once, the difference between light and dark had been basic. One was good, one bad. Suddenly, though, things weren’t so clear.…
— Sarah Dessen
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Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest…
— Herman Melville
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The soul of the artist cannot remain hidden.
— Henri Nouwen
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I consider as lovers of books not those who keep their books hidden in their store-chests and never handle them, but those who, by nightly…
— Desiderius Erasmus
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Passing in any crowd are secret people whose hidden response to beauty is the desire to tear it into bleeding meat.
— James Tiptree Jr.
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This was the kiss I had waited for so long - a kiss born by the river of our childhood, when we didn't yet know…
— Paulo Coelho
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He taught them that the purpose of a man is to make his life holy--every aspect of his life: eating, drinking praying, sleeping. God is…
— Chaim Potok
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The Stars. Jared slept beneath them, uneasy in the rustling leaves. From the battlements Finn gazed up at them, seeing the impossible distances between galaxies…
— Catherine Fisher
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He had a smug smile on his lips like he knew, even in his sleep, that women all around him were dying from love because…
— Sarah Addison Allen
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