"It's the strangest thing about being human: to……" — Claire Messud
"It's the strangest thing about being human: to know so much, to communicate so much, and yet always to fall so drastically short of clarity, to be, in the end, so isolate and inadequate. Even when people try to say things, they say them poorly or obliquely, or they outright lie, sometimes because they're lying to you, but as often because they're lying to themselves."
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26 Quotes by Claire Messud
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We live in a culture that wants to put a redemptive face on everything, so anger doesn't sit well with…
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As my wise friend Didi has more than once observed about life's passages, every departure entails an arrival elsewhere, every…
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Just because something is invisible doesn't mean it isn't there. At any given time, there are a host of invisibles…
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Life's funny. You have to find a way to keep going, to keep laughing, even after you realize that none…
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And then, into the fantasy, as into a dream, would come the thought: it's not like this anymore; the world…
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It doesn't ever occur to you, as you fashion your mask so carefully, that it will grow into your skin…
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Maybe that, really, is as good a definition as any of an artist in the world: a ruthless person.
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Anyway, these books I love, they’re all books by men—every last one of them. Because if it’s unseemly and possibly…
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If you’re reading to find friends, you’re in deep trouble.
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We read to find life, in all its possibilities.
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To my mind, Guernica is the most important online intellectual and literary journal in America today.
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I measure my life out in books." "You should be measuring your life by living. Correction: you shouldn't be measuring…
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I challenge anybody to say that I wouldn't know how to approach foreign policy because, unlike some of the other…
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Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.
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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.
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Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
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I think it's important to have closure in any relationship that ends - from a romantic relationship to a friendship.…
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I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional…
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What most of us need, almost more than anything, is the courage and humility really to ask for help, from…
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I'll never forget the moment I became a dad. It's hard to describe-that level of responsibility, the desire to give…
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The only chance for victory over the brainwash is the right of every man to have his ideas judged one…
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I like ruins because what remains is not the total design, but the clarity of thought, the naked structure, the…
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