Quotes About Ambiguity

A man never goes so far as when he does not know wither he is going.

Y sacaréme la niebla el turbio zumo oscuro del traspienso la pulpa la soborra de mente toda su gris resaca me sacaré hasta el meollo antes de que se asiente la áspera espera arena que taté teté yo y lamí y tragué yo en la sed a trago tardo largo lo hueco lo plenamente hueco y que no es más que hueco pero crece

Out in the street again, Harriet attempted philosophy: 'Wherever one is,' she said, 'the only thing certain is that nothing is certain.

Yace aquí el gran Cardenal, que hizo en vida mal y bien, el bien que hizo lo hizo mal, el mal que hizo lo hizo bien.

Is this love reality Or a dream? I cannot know, When both reality and dreams Exist without truly existing.

Nevins explained that the traits of a decentralized society-flexibility, shared power, ambiguity-made the Apaches immune to attacks that would have destroyed a centralized society.

The world, after all, was still a place of bottomless horror. It was by no means a place of childlike simplicity where everything could be settled by a simple then-and-there decision.

Masks in one layer after another—as many as ten or twenty—had fastened themselves upon me, and I could no longer tell how sad any one of them really was.

Something hard about her gives you the impression less of a beautiful woman than of a handsome young man.

Cependant, à ce moment, j'étais encore incapable de donner leur sens réel à ces mots : « Je veux mourir. » Une idée d'amusement s'y cachait.

The likable weeds and the not likable weeds looked exactly the same but were somehow clearly divided into those that seemed innocuous and those that seemed horrible. It didn't stand to reason. What a girl likes and what she hates seems rather arbitrary to me.

Even if their faces turn pale, what kind of proof would that be? And on the other hand if they laugh with no concern at all, that doesn't mean they're not guilty. We could of course judge the sharpness or dullness of their senses, but we can't judge their innocence.

In America a bread never came without complications.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

Politics is not an exact science.

Politics is no exact science.

I ain't sure whether you're crazy or not," said he to the man in the lookin-glass. "I ain't never been sure.

Az úgynevezett irodalmi szenzációk többnyire nem irodalmiak, bár mivel azt, mi az irodalom, nem tudja senki élÅ' ember, azt is jótékony homály fedi, mi az irodalmi szenzáció. Talán itt is úgy van, hogy az az, amit annak mondanak.

Remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good.

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

Belascoarán se llevó la mano a la bolsa y sacó una paleta de caramelo rellena de chicle. Lo mismo podía haber sacado su pistola, el tipo no le inspiraba la más mínima simpatía.

So easily she broke her word. The fire did not cower down nor the wind rise; her heart beat on quietly. Maybe it was more like a disease than an injury: the seed was sown but not yet sprouted. Perjury, shapeshifting: which was more mortal?

The creative hopeless.