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Finally, I began to write about becoming an older woman and the trepidation it stirred. The small, telling "betrayals" of my body. The stalled, eerie… — Sue Monk Kidd
Perhaps there could be no joy on this planet without an equal weight of pain to balance it out on some unknown scale. — Stephenie Meyer
My blood rose, mixing with my lingering fear of the unknown to drive her to a fever pitch. Her lips touched my lower neck and… — Kim Harrison
The warm dampness of her breath made me shiver at the mix of the familiar and the unknown, with a soft exhalation she shifted her… — Kim Harrison
And just like you, I will die at some unknown date in the future. I just come equipped with a few extra powers. (Sebastian) I… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Beliefâ€¦is the insistence that the truth is what one would â€˜liefâ€™ or (will or) wish to beâ€¦Faith is an unreserved opening of the mind to… — Alan Watts
In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors. — William Blake
My only grudge against nature was that I could not turn my Lolita inside out and apply voracious lips to her young matrix, her unknown… — Vladimir Nabokov
This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant… — Victor Hugo
I knew he was unreliable, but he was fun to be with. He was a childâ€™s ideal companion, full of surprises and happy animal energy.… — E L Doctorow
Books are boring," James said as he wrote. "They line the walls like a thousand leather doorways to be opened into worlds unknown," I offered. — Laura Whitcomb
The one test of the really weird (story) is simply this--whether or not there be excited in the reader a profound sense of dread, and… — H P Lovecraft
The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify. — Barbara Mertz
Side by side with the human race there runs another race of beings, the inhuman ones, the race of artists who, goaded by unknown impulses,… — Henry Miller
What are your fees?" inquired Guyal cautiously. "I respond to three questions," stated the augur. "For twenty terces I phrase the answer in clear and… — Jack Vance
She feared the unknown as we all do, and her ignorance made the unknown infinitely vast. — Joseph Conrad
We are all pilgrims in search of the unknown. — Paulo Coelho
Prayer is not a means of removing the unknown and predictable elements in life, but rather a way of including the unknown and unpredictable in… — Philip Yancey
One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Life in the world... was nothing more than a system of atavistic contracts, banal ceremonies, preordained words, with which people entertained each other in society… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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