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I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers… — Richard P. Feynman
Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move toward the unknown -even when we don't want to and when we think we don't… — Paulo Coelho
Thus it was that in obedience to the law laid down by his mother, and in obedience to the law of that unknown and nameless… — Jack London
His conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be. The cub's fear of the unknown was an inherited distrust, and it… — Jack London
What frightens you? What makes the hair on your arms rise, your palms sweat, the breath catch in your chest like a wild thing caged?… — Libba Bray
Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming… — Franz Kafka
...does that not tell you that grief is like life and that there is always somethings unknown beyond it? — Alexandre Dumas
The dark dangerous forest is still there, my friends. Beyond the space of the astronauts and the astronomers, beyond the dark, tangled regions of Freudian… — Fritz Leiber
B looked down the shaft, at a metal ladder and darkness beyond. "Me first?" Of course. You're the apprentice, so you always go first into… — Tim Pratt
For all these years I kept my mouth closed so selfish desires would not fall out. And because I remained quiet for so long now… — Amy Tan
But the act, called the sexual act, is not for the depositing of seed. It is for leaping off into the unknown, as from a… — D. H. Lawrence
I have always found the times when another person recognizes you to be strangely sad; I suspect the pathos of these moments is their rareness,… — Curtis Sittenfeld
In the years afterward, I fled whenever somebody began to understand me. That has subsided. But one thing remained: I don't want anybody to understand… — Pascal Mercier
There are times when I wish I could go back and change the course of my life. Make different choices...But the past cannot be changed,… — Libba Bray
To be conservative, then, is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott
The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained… — Wilkie Collins
Sometimes I think that the amount of time you live on earth is just an inverse reflection of how good you were in a previous… — Chuck Klosterman
Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far. — Marcel Proust
Books. They are lined up on shelves or stacked on a table. There they are wrapped up in there jackets, lines of neat print on… — David Almond
To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of… — Richard Dawkins

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