"Heaven preserve me from littleness and pleasantness and……" — Violet Trefusis

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• It is the misanthrope who alone has clarity.By standing outside the huddles of man,he sees a lot,and what he often… — Manu Joseph
• Was that what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities? — Banana Yoshimoto
• ...I am much better now at ambiguities. — Saul Bellow
• The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar… — J. G. Ballard
• The individual (no matter how well-meaning he might be, no matter how much strength he might have, if only he… — Soren Kierkegaard
• All my novels are about the ambiguities that lie beneath the sharp edges of the law. — Scott Turow
• The Russian proposal over Iran's uranium enrichment program is considerable, but it has some problems and ambiguities to be clarified… — Ali Larijani
• The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost… — Marilyn Hacker
• A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities. — Herman Melville
• In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have… — Bertrand Russell
• If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of… — Madeleine L'Engle
• For most of my life I had operated under a simple schematic of winning and losing, but cancer was teaching… — Lance Armstrong

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