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I seem to know all the cliches, but not how to put them together in a believable way. Or else these stories are terrible and… — Umberto Eco
Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us. — Emile M. Cioran
It is precisely because we resist the darkness in ourselves that we miss the depths of the loveliness, beauty, brilliance, creativity, and joy that lie… — Thomas Moore
Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly. — Alan Lightman
Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our… — Albert Camus
Adults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they're able to handle it. The children get overwhelmed by the tasks in front of… — Haruki Murakami
There are a dozen different ways of delivering destruction in impersonal wholesale, via ships and missiles of one sort or another, catastrophes so widespread, so… — Robert A. Heinlein
The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this… — Friedrich Nietzsche
What makes me myself rather than anyone else is the very fact that I am poised between two countries, two or three languages, and several… — Amin Maalouf
but something always went wrong, and the relationship would end precisely at the moment when she was sure that this was the person with whom… — Paulo Coelho
The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and… — Hannah Arendt
The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing… — Federico Fellini
Whether or not we continue to enforce a universal conception of human rights at moments of outrage and incomprehension, precisely when we think that others… — Judith Butler
How can a novelist achieve atonement when, with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also God? There is no one, no entity or… — Ian Mcewan
Flattery is telling the other person precisely what he thinks about himself. — Dale Carnegie
If there is something that opens horizons, it is precisely ignorance. — Romain Gary
To be an outlaw you must first have a base in law to reject and get out of, I never had such a base. I… — William S. Burroughs
One of the liberating effects of science fiction when I was a teenager was precisely its ability to tune me into all sorts of strange… — William Gibson

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