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It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how. — Ann Patchett
in the nineteenth year and the eleventh month speak your tattered Kaddish for all suicides: Praise to life though it crumbled in like a tunnel… — Adrienne Rich
If we knew how often the obedience of others is affected by our own, and how often our stepping forth soon brings forth a whole… — Neal A. Maxwell
We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
We knew the pain of winter rushing up your skirt, and the ache of keeping your knees together in class, and how drab and infuriating… — Jeffrey Eugenides
…Then another porpoise broke the water and rolled toward us. A third and fourth porpoise neared. The visitation was something so rare and perfect that… — Pat Conroy
No voice comes from outer space, from the folds of dust and carpets of wind to tell us that this is the way it was… — Mark Strand
What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail? — Eleanor Roosevelt
And that night we knew that to hold the body of women in our arms in neither ugly nor shameful, but the one ecstasy granted… — Ayn Rand
In formulating any philosophy the first consideration must always be: What can we know? That is, what can we be sure we know, or sure… — Woody Allen
We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to… — Jeffrey Eugenides
Look," I said, "We knew Jason and Becky would be back, the break would end. This isn't a surprise, it's what's supposed to happen. It's… — Sarah Dessen
In the 18th century we knew how everything was done, but here I rise through the air, I listen to voices in America, I see… — Virginia Woolf
Down the hall came the wife. She was glorious, burning. She didn't know yet that her husband was dead. We knew. That's what gave her… — Denis Johnson
The mark of Cain is stamped upon our foreheads. Across the centuries, our brother Abel was lain in blood which we drew, and shed tears… — Pope John XXIII
Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people… — Douglas Adams
We knew exactly what we wanted in each other. And even so, it ended. One day it stopped, as if the film simply slipped off… — Haruki Murakami
We knew that Cecilia had killed herself because she was a misfit, because the beyond called to her, and we knew that her sisters, once… — Jeffrey Eugenides
Let me say for now that we knew once the Creation was broken, true fathering would be much more lacking than mothering. Don't misunderstand me,… — William P. Young
Jealousy we understood and thought natural... But envy was a strange, new feeling for us. And all the time we knew that Maureen Peal was… — Toni Morrison
You are all a lost generation," Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go… — James Thurber
Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store, we would shrink back in fear and let the cup of life pass us by… — Jacqueline Carey
Everything we knew condemned us, and our questioning condemned us most of all. Knowledge was the way of our people, and knowledge was dangerous. It… — Alice Hoffman
It's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it? — Lucy Maud Montgomery
We knew so little about eachother. We lay mostly submerged, like ice floes with our visible social selves projecting only cool and white. Here was… — Ian Mcewan

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