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...Nameless, unknown to me as you were, I couldn't forget your voice!' 'For how long?' 'O - ever so long. Days and days.' 'Days and… — Thomas Hardy
I reminded myself: when a book lies unopened it might contain anything in the world, anything imaginable. It therefore, in that pregnant moment before opening,… — Catherynne M. Valente
Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there will be, along with the feelings… — Wendell Berry
We think there are limits to the dimensions of fear. Until we encounter the unknown. Then we can all feel boundless amounts of terror. — Peter HÃ¸eg
Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of oneâ€™s own self. — Franz Kafka
Happiness is a choice. — Melissa Marr
There are sacraments of evil as well as of good about us, and we live and move to my belief in an unknown world, a… — Arthur Machen
â€¦ lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and â€¦ stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to… — Wassily Kandinsky
One true king knew when to step aside and give up the reins of powerâ€”to remove his crown and relinquish his kingdomâ€”all for the sake… — Vera Nazarian
Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't--and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we… — Rebecca Solnit
Not all who wander are lost — Ann Brashares
Egnaro is a secret known to everyone but yourself. It is a country or a city to which you have never been; it is an… — M. John Harrison
I was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . . I was taking a part of the South to transplant in… — Richard Wright
Oh, Black known and unknown poets, how often have your auctioned pains sustained us? Who will compute the lonely nights made less lonely by your… — Maya Angelou
Henderson sighed. There was a time, he reflected, when the coming of this night meant something. A dark Europe, groaning in superstitious fear, dedicated this… — Robert Bloch
I can't tell you what it really is, I can only tell you what it feels like. — Eminem
He had no conscious knowledge of death, but like every animal of the Wild, he possessed the instinct of death. To him it stood as… — Jack London
A soul of water a soul of stone. A soul by name a soul unknown. The hours unmake our flesh our bone. The Soul is… — Clive Barker
Now I am the unknown, the unknowable. — Maggie Stiefvater
Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches, and yet a little way beyond the outworks of our divinings, perhaps we… — Rainer Maria Rilke

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