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“It is not certainty which is creative, but the uncertainty we are pledged to in our works.”
Source : Edmond Jabès (1977). “The Book of Questions: The Book of Yukel, Return to the Book”, Wesleyan
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“I want us all to get healthier, but also to live life to the fullest along the way. I want people to live their lives no matter what.”
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“I know you don't want this, Katsa. But I can't help myself. The moment you came barreling into my life I was lost. I'm afraid to tell you what I wish for, for fear you'll... oh, I don't know, throw me into the fire. Or more likely, refuse me. Or worst of all, despise me," he said, his voice breaking and his eyes dropping from her face. His face dropping into his hands. "I love you," he said. "You're more dear to my heart than I ever knew anyone could be. And I've made you cry; and there I'll stop.”
Source : Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.231, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“I don't like touring and it seemed to be getting on top of me in a big way.”
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“The Middle East is literally going up in flames, as is California, and Katrina's problems haven't been solved, and Congress' response is to criticize Federal judges.”
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“There are so many myths out there about Marianne Faithfull, I had to, um, detach. But I can turn it on because Marianne Faithfull is really an attitude, you know.”
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“You must empty out the dirty water before you fill the pitcher with clean.”
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“The useless search of philosophers for a cause of the universe is a regressus in infinitum (a stepping backwards into the infinite) and resembles climbing up an endless ladder, the recurring question as to the cause of the cause rendering the attainment of a final goal impossible.”
Source : Ludwig Büchner (1884). “Force and Matter: Or, Principles of the Natural Order of the Universe. With a System of Morality Based Thereon”