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One Quotes by Joyce Cary
- It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a man knows, the more sure…
- Sara could commit adultery at one end and weep for her sins at the other, and enjoy both operations at once.
- No one can estimate the power of authority among poor and uneducated people in a world whose problems confuse even the wisest.
- Where can one find a profounder desolation than in the poor child who has lost its mother?
- Of all things I find most unbearable is the injustice of one generation to another.
- A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice.
- The truth is that life is hard and dangerous; that he who seeks his own happiness does not find it; that he who is weak…
- It is a tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - the less a man knows, the more sure it…
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
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