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- A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse. — Edward Abbey
- It is because the public are a mass inert, obtuse, and passive that they need to be shaken up from time to… — Alfred Jarry
- Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one's equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the… — Georges Bataille
- The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world — Stendhal
- Writers take words seriously-perha ps the last professional class that does-and they struggle to steer their own through the crosswinds of meddling… — John Updike
- The following general definition of an animal: a system of different organic molecules that have combined with one another, under the impulsion… — Denis Diderot
- Were you always such a stubborn, blind, obtuse girl?" "Are you calling me stupid?" "Yes, but in a more poetic way!" "Well,… — Colleen Houck
- The dream unites the grossest contradictions, permits impossibilities, sets aside the knowledge that influences us by day, and exposes us as ethically… — Sigmund Freud