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Our lives are more like fragmentary dreams than the enactments of conscious selves. We control very little of what we most care about; many of… — John Gray
We certainly do not forget you, so soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves. — Jane Austen
We speak much of the duty of making others happy. No day should pass, we say, on which we do not put a little cheer… — J.R. Miller
There are things in this universe that we cannot control, and then there are the things we can. . . . Let fate, coincidence, and… — David Guterson
If we read history with an open mind, we cannot fail to conclude that, among all the military virtues, the energetic conduct of war has… — Carl von Clausewitz
We cannot discuss the state of our minorities until we first have a sense of what we are, who we are, what our goals are,… — James A. Baldwin
The problem of why God created the universe still troubles thinking men; but if we cannot know why, we can at least know that He… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
It's just harder out there in the world of the living, and we cannot protect you out there as easily. I wanted to keep you… — Neil Gaiman
There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge-that is everywhere,… — Hermann Hesse
Every natural form is latent within us, originates in the soul whose essence is eternity, whose essence we cannot know but which most often intimates… — Hermann Hesse
Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves. — Adrienne Rich
We cannot indefinitely avoid depressing subject matter, particularly it it is true, and in the subsequent quarter century the world has had to hear a… — Elie Wiesel
We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which… — Ray Bradbury
Somebody has to go polish the stars, They're looking a little bit dull. Somebody has to go polish the stars, For the eagles and starlings… — Shel Silverstein
For we cannot tarry here, We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger, We, the youthful sinewy races, all the rest… — Walt Whitman
The eyeâ€” it cannot choose but see; we cannot bid the ear be still; our bodies feel, where'er they be, against or with our will. — William Wordsworth
When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us. — Alan Watts
Is it not possible that we are still living in the Dark Ages, still mocking the suggestion of 'mystical' forces that we cannot see or… — Dan Brown
And once he had seen this, he could never again see it otherwise, just as we cannot reconstruct an illusion once it has been explained. — Leo Tolstoy
Come into our home, daughters of Earth; dwell in our tunnels, harvest our fields; what we cannot do, you are now our hands to do… — Orson Scott Card

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