Transparent Quotes
264 quotes by 241 authors
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A veil hangs between the two opposites, a mere slip of a thing that is transparent to warn us or comfort us. You hate now…
— Cecelia Ahern
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Endless moons, an opaque universe, thunder, tornadoes, the quaking earth. Rare moments of peace; forehead up against my knees, arms around my head, I though,…
— Shan Sa
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Wherever snow falls, or water flows, or birds fly, wherever day and night meet in twilight, wherever the blue heaven is hung by clouds, or…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I remember everything about it—with an effort. I see it all, as divers see what is going on above them, through a medium, dense, rippling,…
— Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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This was a nightmare scenario for any bodyguard: stuck in the middle of a transparent tube, several miles underwater, with a murdering band of fugitives…
— Eoin Colfer
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And these are your reasons, my lord?" "Do you think I have others?" said Lord Vetinari. "My motives, as ever, are entirely transparent." Hughnon reflected…
— Terry Pratchett
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In the kingdom of glass everything is transparent, and there is no place to hide a dark heart.
— Vera Nazarian
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Soon Hansel and Gretel came to a little cottage. When they got quite near, they saw that the little house was made of bread and…
— Charles M. Schulz
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Take from my palms, to soothe your heart, a little honey, a little sun, in obedience to Persephone's bees. You can't untie a boat that…
— Osip Mandelstam
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Watching a make-out while wrapped in a blanket with a guy she wanted to make out with made her feel exposed. Obvious. Transparent. Like her…
— Lisi Harrison
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Smile and others will smile back. Smile to show how transparent, how candid you are. Smile if you have nothing to say. Most of all,…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Yes, I know what passion would fill me with all its power. Before, I was too young. I got in the way. Now I know…
— Albert Camus
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It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it not…
— Carl Sagan
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I wonder what a soul…a person's soul…would look like,' said Priscilla dreamily. 'Like that, I should think,' answered Anne, pointing to a radiance of sifted…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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There's a cliff at the end point of a person's life; most us of peer over the edge of it, hanging on. That's why, when…
— Jodi Picoult
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In the depths of the mirror the evening landscape moved by, the mirror and the reflected figures like motion pictures superimposed one on the other.…
— Yasunari Kawabata
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So love is the recognition of oneness in a world of duality. This is the birth of God into the world of form. Love makes…
— Eckhart Tolle
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I mind how once we lay such a transparent summer morning, How you settled your head athwart my hips and gently turn'd over upon me,…
— Walt Whitman
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And so much depends, I told Augustus, upon a blue sky cut open by the branches of the trees above. So much depends upon the…
— John Green
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Do we behave out of fear of punishment, or out of the demands of our heart? For me, it is the latter, as I would…
— R A Salvatore
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