Mere Quotes

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I was forced to fall back upon the unsatisfactory conclusion, that while, beyond doubt, there are combinations of very simple natural objects which have the… — Edgar Allan Poe
A book is a physical object in a world of physical objects. It is a set of dead symbols. And then the right reader comes… — Jorge Luis Borges
Being poor is a mere trifle. It is being known to be poor that is the sting. — Jerome K. Jerome
Mere improvement is not redemption, though redemption always improves people — C.S. Lewis
He looked at the little maiden, and she looked at him; and he felt that he was melting away, but he still managed to keep… — Hans Christian Andersen
There is such solace in the mere sight of water. It clothes us delicately in its blowing salt and scent, gossamer items that medicate the… — Sebastian Barry
The mere possibility of getting what we want fills the soul of the ordinary person with guilt. We look around at all those who have… — Paulo Coelho
There are few persons, even among the calmest thinkers, who have not occasionally been startled into a vague yet thrilling half credence in the supernatural,… — Edgar Allan Poe
The world is mere change, and this life, opinion. — Marcus Aurelius
The secret of the mountain is that the mountains simply exist, as I do myself: the mountains exist simply, which I do not. The mountains… — Peter Matthiessen
I was lying, but I wanted to rouse him. I have an inborn urge to contradict; my whole life has been a mere chain of… — Mikhail Lermontov
I no longer think she's just being nice. She's being kind. Which is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to… — David Levithan
In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny… — John Stuart Mill
I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices can… — C.S. Lewis
The modern habit of saying "This is my opinion, but I may be wrong" is entirely irrational. If I say that it may be wrong,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It was one of those dreams that invade the space between seconds, proving sleep has its own physics- where time shrinks and swells, lifetimes unspool… — Laini Taylor
A thirteen-year-old is a kaleidoscope of different personalities, if not in most ways a mere figment of her own imagination. At that age, what and… — Jessica Mitford
Her library would have been valuable to a bibliophile except she treated her books execrably. I would rarely open a volume that she had not… — Pat Conroy
She reached up and curled her fingers into mine. â€œHe should take you to dinner.â€ To say that the mere thought horrified me would have… — Darynda Jones
Duty is heavier than a mountain, Dai Shan.' That time, Lan did flinch. How long had it been since someone had been able to do… — Robert Jordan

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