Merely Quotes

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What is writing, no matter how lavish the pieces, if it says nothing of the truth, cares little for the heart, and is merely subservient… — Muriel Barbery
But merely accepting authoritarian truth, even if that truth has some virtue, does not bring skepticism to an end. To blindly accept a truth one… — Albert Schweitzer
Very slowly he turned his head back to look at Shmuel, who wasn't crying anymore, merely staring at the floor and looking as if he… — John Boyne
In order to go on with our lives, we are always capable of making the ominous into the merely strange. — Tracy Kidder
Happiness is never there to stay [...] Happiness is merely a respite offered by inquietude. — Andre Maurois
If you go to your death rather than do everything you might to prevent what is happening, you are merely committing suicide and trying to… — Jim Butcher
Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than to merely keep us warm. They change our view of the world… — Virginia Woolf
When we treat people merely as they are, they will remain as they are. When we treat them as if they were what they should… — Thomas S. Monson
Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered — Jose Saramago
A scientist can pretend that his work isn't himself, it's merely the impersonal truth. An artist can't hide behind the truth. He can't hide anywhere. — Ursula K. Le Guin
the tragedy of an attachment is that if its object is not attained it causes unhappiness. But if it is attained, it does not cause… — Anthony de Mello
How can we be alive and not wonder about the stories we knit together this place we call the world? Without stories our universe is… — Douglas Coupland
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
I am what some would say 'holy, and wholly other than you.' The problem is that many folks try to grasp some sense of who… — William P. Young
If you fear nothing, then you are not brave. You are merely too foolish to be afraid. — Laurell K. Hamilton
I want to speak to the despisers of the body. I would not have them learn and teach differently, but merely say farewell to their… — Friedrich Nietzsche
These are the sort of things people ought to look at. Things without pretensions, satisfied to be merely themselves. — Aldous Huxley
He was no longer quite sure whether anything he had ever thought or felt was truly his own property, or whether his thoughts were merely… — Milan Kundera
I am not laughing, Dorian; at least I am not laughing at you. But you should not say the greatest romance of your life. You… — Oscar Wilde
He'd woken up the next day in the city hospital with Magnus Bane staring down at him with an odd expression--it could have been deep… — Cassandra Clare

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