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Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and… — Sigmund Freud
The goals we pursue are always veiled. A girl who longs for marriage longs for something she knows nothing about. The boy who hankers after… — Milan Kundera
I was not born to be free---I was born to adore and obey. — C.S. Lewis
There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in that endless necropolis,… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
That a thing made by hand, the work and thought of a single craftsman, can endure much longer than its maker, through centuries in fact,… — Susan Vreeland
We are afraid of the known and afraid of the unknown. That is our daily life and in that there is no hope, and therefore… — Thomas Jefferson
I was beginning to see, though, that the unknown wasn't always the greatest thing to fear. The people who know you best can be risker,… — Sarah Dessen
So at the end of this day, we give thanks For being betrothed to the unknown. — John O'Donohue
It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself. — Francis Bacon
There is no stability in this world. Who is to say what meaning there is in anything? Who is to foretell the flight of a… — Virginia Woolf
Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust. — Virginia Woolf
He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another's personality, marking vulnerable points. — Ayn Rand
The reason why I do not know anything about myself, the reason why Siddhartha has remained alien and unknown to myself is due to one… — Hermann Hesse
Was there no safety? No learning by heart of the ways of the world? No guide, no shelter, but all was miracle, and leaping from… — Virginia Woolf
Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by… — W. Somerset Maugham
The ego relies on the familiar. It is reluctant to experience the unknown, which is they very essence of life. — Deepak Chopra
Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us… — Isabel Allende
I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown,… — Fernando Pessoa
Reading brings us unknown friends — Honore de Balzac

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