"Our dream dashes itself against the great mystery……" — Jules Renard

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This quote is filed under Dashes Quotes, one of 11 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• In conversation you can use timing, a look, an inflection. But on the page all you have is commas, dashes,… — Fran Lebowitz
• It (the dash ) is a comfortable punctuation mark since even the most rigorous critic can seldom claim that any… — Bergen Evans
• One must know the so-called 'lesson of a downpour. A man, caught in a sudden rain en route, dashes along… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
• How you start is important, very important, but in the end it is how you finish that counts. It is… — B. C. Forbes
• Yet birth, and lust, and illness, and death are changeless things, and when one of these harsh facts springs out… — Arthur Conan Doyle
• When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open, he dashes for it without stopping to think where he… — George Bernard Shaw
• The way the moon dashes through clouds that blow Loosely as cannon-smoke... Is a reminder of the strength and pain… — Philip Larkin
• She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing poems full of dashes and brilliance, and never gaining weight. — Jeffrey Eugenides
• I used to enjoy using dots where they would be least expected, not at the end of a sentence but… — Tom Wolfe
• We are now ready to start on our way down the Great Unknown. Our boats...are chafing each other, as they… — John Wesley Powell

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