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Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely… — Leo Tolstoy
The Sims is an escapist vehicle for people who want to escape to where they already are, which is why I thought this game was… — Chuck Klosterman
I shaved this morning for precisely that reason. I was like, 'Well, you never know when someone is going to clamp down on your calf… — John Green
Feel lucky for what you have when you have it. Isn't that the point? Happily ever after doesn't mean happy forever. The ever after, what… — Alice Hoffman
Objects exist and if one pays more attention to them than to people, it is precisely because they exist more than the people. Dead objects… — Jean-Luc Godard
Unlike some men, I had never drunk for boldness or charm or wit; I had used alcohol for precisely what it was, a depressant to… — Frederick Exley
It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true it would not be a proof… — H. L. Mencken
He was a physicist, more precisely an astrophysicist, diligent and eager but without illusions: the Truth lay beyond, inaccessible to our telescopes, accessible to the… — Primo Levi
...Haller's sickness of the soul, as I now know, is not the eccentricity of a single individual, but the sickness of the times themselves, the… — Hermann Hesse
At the word witch, we imagine the horrible old crones from Macbeth. But the cruel trials witches suffered teach us the opposite. Many perished precisely… — Andre Breton
Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another. — Desmond Tutu
Thus we arrive at the singular conclusion that of all the information passed by our cultural assets it is precisely the elements which might be… — Sigmund Freud
To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self.... And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of… — Soren Kierkegaard
Are you reading your Bible?" Ah, well...I was." And then you quit." You got it." Then, you can expect to be weak on one of… — Jan Karon
Why should you want to give up a child's wise not-understanding in exchange for defensiveness and scorn, since not-understanding is, after all, a way of… — Rainer Maria Rilke
I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound… — Gustave Flaubert
Maybe the best thing to do with favorite books is to leave them be: to achieve such exalted position means that they entered your life… — Nick Hornby
There is, indeed, nothing more annoying than to be, for instance, wealthy, of good family, nice-looking, fairly intelligent, and even good-natured, and yet to have… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Every one interprets everything in terms of his own experience. If you say anything which does not touch a precisely similar spot in another man's… — Aleister Crowley
To attain something desired is to discover how vain it is; andâ€¦though we live all our lives in expectation of better things, we often at… — Arthur Schopenhauer

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