"Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word."

Willard Van Orman Quine, American Philosopher

Confusion, Sin, Word

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"The mental mist of ambiguity and the fog of ambivalence hamper human existence."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

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"I just got my signals crossed. First thing, I have to untangle the connections. Otherwise, I come away empty-handed. Or with someone else's hands. Or even with a missing hand."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face."

Johnny Depp, American Actor

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"Exquisitely painful, isn't it? Not being sure who you love and who loves you."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

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"Okay... I get that... but why I!?"

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"In the airport, luggage-laden people rush hither and yon through endless corridors, like souls to each of whom the devil has furnished a different, inaccurate map of the escape route from hell."

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer

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"Science ask facts and religion ask faith, humans are confused between life and death."

Santosh Kalwar, Nepalese Poet

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"Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives."

Sarah Fielding, British Novelist

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"Probably it can be a deeper level.. even it can be a part from The Life Of One kid... but what I did... was that I am just going to leave people with confusion as always... The Life of One Kid... has found it's own end... just now breathing... soon It's going to stop breathing."

"Something which can make us the same... is what do we use to put somebody in confusion and what does they use to put someone in confusion?"

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