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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
Friendship has splendors that love knows not. It grows stronger when crossed, whereas obstacles kill love. Friendship resists time, which wearies and severs couples. It… — Mariama BÃ¢
The young, free to act on their initiative, can lead their elders in the direction of the unknown... The children, the young, must ask the… — Margaret Mead
My whole being was seeking for something still unknown which might confer meaning upon the banality of life. — Carl Jung
The complexity of economics can be calculated mathematically. Write out the algebraic equation that is the human heart and multiply each unknown by the population… — P.J. O'Rourke
No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is the relationship you… — Dean Koontz
Really important meetings are planned by the souls long before the bodies see each other. Generally speaking, these meetings occur when we reach a limit,… — Paulo Coelho
His life has been like a ballpark, hasn't it? All lines, structure, and rules, never changing. But now he's been hit over the wall into… — Neal Shusterman
And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before--and thus was the Empire… — Douglas Adams
Here. Where I am anonymous and alone in a white room with no history and no parading. So I can make something unknown in the… — Michael Ondaatje
Good Demeter mothering keeps a child in the heat and passion of life which immortalize and establish soulfulness. Mothering involves not only physical survival and… — Thomas Moore
to early seen unknown...and known to late — William Shakespeare
I told myself: 'I am surrounded by unknown things.' I imagined man without ears, suspecting the existence of sound as we suspect so many hidden… — Guy de Maupassant
As man advances in civilization, and small tribes are united into larger communities, the simplest reason would tell each individual that he ought to extend… — Charles Darwin
When you see such photos, you can't help but wonder at just how sweet and sad and innocent all moments of life are rendered by… — Douglas Coupland
Why do people move? What makes them uproot and leave everything they've known for a great unknown beyond the horizon? ... The answer is the… — Yann Martel

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