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Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it; it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny. — Victor Hugo
I want to be famous but unknown! — Edgar Degas
There's nothing like the discovery of an unknown work by a great thinker to set the intellectual community atwitter and cause academics to dart about… — Woody Allen
I am convinced that if all men were to live as simply as I then did, thieving and robbery would be unknown. These take place… — Henry David Thoreau
A different species a different set of values a world completely unlike your own. There is a feeling you can only get when you meet… — Hiromu Arakawa
Through endless night the earth whirls toward a creation unknown... — Henry Miller
Laments of an Icarus The paramours of courtesans Are well and satisfied, content. But as for me my limbs are rent Because I clasped the… — Charles Baudelaire
Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside? At the library I couldnâ€™t help but notice which patrons checked out… — Alice Hoffman
I can only give you words. Nothing fancy. But this will have to do. It doesn't matter if you're reading it a year from now… — Daniel H. Wilson
The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark. When you look… — Jeanette Winterson
I grieved, but a part of me felt a lightening of a burden that I had carried all my life: that I could never be… — Megan Whalen Turner
We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge - and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves - how could it happen that… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Our friends - how distant, how mute, how seldom visited and little known. And I, too, am dim to my friends and unknown; a phantom,… — Virginia Woolf
Salander leaned back against the pillow and followed the conversation with a smile. She wondered why she, who had such difficulty talking about herself with… — Steig Larsson
The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the margin the greater… — Tom Robbins
Care not for want of place; care for thy readiness to fill one. Care not for being unknown, but seek to be worthy of note. — Confucius
I'm inclined to reserve all judgement, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and made me the victim of not a… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
If we listen to and follow the promptings of the Spirit, they will serve as a Liahona, guiding us through the unknown, challenging valleys and… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
She did not speak for speech was unknown to her. — Pablo Neruda
â€Ž"Itâ€™s not as if I donâ€™t have anything to read; thereâ€™s a tower of perfectly good unread books next to my bed, not to mention… — Lewis Buzbee

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