"One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions."

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"One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions."

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"When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of."

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher

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"I knew there were no ghosts in there, but on the other hand, what if there were?"

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"Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us."

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"A harmful truth is better than a useful lie."

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"Every habit he's ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert. Given the right conditions, all his old addictions would burst into full and luxuriant bloom."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"More powerful than God, more evil than the Devil; the poor have it, the rich lack it, and if you eat it you die?"

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history."

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"To forsake wisdom is to seek folly, to seek folly is to seek evil, to seek evil is to be in the arms of the devil, and to be in the arms of the devil is be in the arms of death."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position, it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship."

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"I'd far rather leave a thought behind me than a child. Other people can have children."

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"We move between two darknesses."

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"Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind."

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"Ladies sheltering behind men, men sheltering behind servants - the whole system's wrong, and she must challenge it."

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"What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote."

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"It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools."

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"The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot."

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"In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious and draws up something which is normally beyond his reach. He mixes this thing with his normal experiences and out of the mixture he makes a work of art."

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"Then she lay on her back and gazed at the cloudless sky. Mr. Beebe, whose opinion of her rose daily, whispered to his niece that that was the proper way to behave if any little thing went wrong."

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