Quotes About Ambiguity

quero não o que está feito mas o que tortuosamente ainda se faz. Minhas desequilibradas palavras são o luxo de meu silêncio.

La bondad era tibia y sin consistencia, olía a carne cruda guardada durante mucho tiempo.

Estaba viendo claramente el vacío. Y ni entendía aquello que una parte de ella entendía. ¿Qué haría de esa lucidez? Sabía también que aquella claridad suya se podía volver el infierno humano.

Ne olduÄŸumu bilmediÄŸimden, "olmamak" gerçeÄŸe en yak?n olduÄŸum yerdi: en az?ndan madalyonun öteki yüzü kontrolümde: en az?ndan "-mamak"a sahiptim, tersime sahiptim. O zaman benim için neyin iyi olduÄŸunu bilmiyordum; benim için kötü olana da böylece ?s?nm?? oldum.

Life is like that: you press a button and life lights up. Except that the girl didnt know which button to press.

Ouve-me, ouve o silêncio. O que te falo nunca é o que eu te falo e sim outra coisa. Capta essa coisa que me escapa e no entanto vivo dela e estou à tona de brilhante escuridão. Um instante me leva insensivelmente a outro e o tema atemático vai se desenrolando sem plano mas geométrico como as figuras sucessivas de um caleidoscópio.

Fui a ver una película, no entendí nada, pero sentí todo. ¿Voy a verla de nuevo? No sé, no quiero arriesgarme, puedo de pronto entender y no sentir.

Am I one of the weak? a weak woman possessed by incessant and mad rhythm? if I were solid and strong would I even have heard the rhythm? I find no answer: I am.

o que parece falta de sentido – é o sentido. Todo momento de "falta de sentido" é exatamente a assustadora certeza de que ali há o sentido, e que não somente eu não alcanço, como não quero porque não tenho garantias.

It's like having a coin and not knowing in which country it is legal tender.

Who hasn't ever wondered: am I a monster or is this what it means to be person?

The truth of our existence is that it is uncertain.

You take in things you don't want all the time. The second you hear or see some ordinary moment, all its intended targets, all the meanings behind the retreating seconds, as far as you are able to see, come into focus. Hold up, did you just hear, did you just say, did you just see, did you just do that? Then the voice in your head silently tells you to take your foot off your throat because just getting along shouldn't be an ambition.

channeling his assertion that the less that is communicated the better. Be ambiguous. This type of ambiguity could also be diagnosed as dissociation and would support Serena's claim that she has had to split herself off from herself and create different personae. Now

I don't know what's right. I don't know what's wrong," she said with a shrug. "I don't think anyone knows for sure. They may think they know; they may even convince themselves of it. But sometimes you can't be sure until much, much later when you see how it all worked it out. You just have to do the best you can and hope that it all works out.

We go out in the fog in the morning won't burn.

But of, but what, but whether, but who, but nevertheless, but insofar, but why, but otherwise, but even if-

No one knows why we do it and when we've done it rarely does anyone want it. Yet still we do it. That's what being a writer is.

Most men are a confusion of half-truths and vanity, of something lost and never completed.

Behind every reflection is a shadow. But behind any shadow, there is no reflection.

It is great good health to believe, as the Hindus do, that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is great good health to want to understand one's dreams. It is great good health to desire the ambiguous and paradoxical.

She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.

Devotees who say that À la recherche du temps perdu reminds them of a cathedral should be asked which cathedral they mean. It reminds me of a sandcastle that the tide reached before its obsessed constructor could finish it; but he knew that would happen, or else why build it on a beach?

We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.