Quotes About Ambiguity

in my spell of uncertainty as to where I was...

Admirava a impotência do espírito, do raciocínio e do coração em operarem a mínima conversão, em resolverem uma só dessas dificuldades, que em seguida a vida, sem que se saiba ao menos como o fez, tão facilmente soluciona.

Il n'y a pas une idée qui ne porte en elle sa réfutation possible, un mot, le mot contraire.

That is rather Pelléas, too," I suggested to Mme de Cambremer-Legrandin. "You know the scene I mean." "Of course I do" was what she said; but "I haven't the faintest idea" was the message proclaimed by her voice and features, which did not mould themselves to the shape of any recollection, and by her smile, which floated in the air, without support.

Pieni kopaus ikkunaruutuun kuin jokin olisi töytäissyt siihen, sitten väljä kevyt varina kuin ikkunasta kerrosta ylempää olisi heitetty hiekkajyviä, sittern varina laajeni, muuttui säännölliseksi, omaksui rytmin, tuli juoksevaksi, sointuvaksi, musikaaliseksi, määrittämättömäksi, kaiken käsittäväksi: satoi.

For the very ones who are right, like Françoise, have also to be wrong, so that Justice becomes an impossibility

her own form is still rather vague; and we may wonder whether she will turn into a goddess, a table, or a bowl.

Le sourire de Monna Lisa, dont nous ne savons rien (c'est peut-être un visage d'homme) est plus mystérieux.

I recently turned forty-two, a complicated stage of life. You're young, but not very, you're not elderly, but you are a bit old. Neither fish nor fowl. It's the transition from one thing to the other, the real start of deterioration. Sometimes I feel like I want to have aged already, to be an old woman who has resolved all her expectations.

So, I turned to angels, and pondered at length their androgyny.

If you get run over as you cross the street perhaps you won't even realize it.

Think Pickelman's our guy?' 'Maybe. Or maybe he knows who is. Or maybe he's guilty of something else.' 'Glad you could narrow it down,' Bailey replied. 'Always here for ya.

Besides, it's possible he's not guilty." I laughed so hard I had to put down my fries. I

Sometimes things are less than they seem.

obfuscate or

He wasn't scared exactly, but he had that knife's edge thinness he used to get on the job, the sense that things could go either way.

Seventy-five thousand?

Something else: it always struck me as troubling that the words in books are printed in black and white, when life is anything but. The binary colour of words on a page give the sense of simplicity and clarity. But life doesn't work like that.

though I have neither Power, Time nor Occasion, to be a great Conqueror, like Alexander, or Cesar; yet, rather than not be Mistress of a World, since Fortune and the Fates would give me none, I have made One of my own. And thus, believing, or, at least, hoping, that no Creature can, or will, Envy me for this World of mine, I remain, Noble Ladies, Your Humble Servant, M. Newcastle.

It's so dark - as if all the lights are just there to make the other places seem darker.

In a world of unlimited possibilities, there is always the possibility that there are no possibilities.

I sing without knowing what my song means, and whether the listening world is amazed or wounded.

We all of us go about, she meant to tell him but was too occupied, wanting to be wanted but unsure why anybody should bother.

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