Quotes About Ambiguity

A satirist is never certain whether he/she will be acclaimed or punished.

Une des conquêtes préliminaires dans l'étude du cerveau humain est de comprendre qu'une de ses supériorités sur l'ordinateur est de pouvoir travailler avec de l'insuffisant et du flou (...). Il faut reconnaître des phénomènes, comme liberté ou créativité, inexplicables hors du cadre complexe qui seul permet leur apparition. p50

Attends-toi à l'inattendu! Voilà comment je peux concilier ma crainte de catastrophe réelle avec mon espoir, que je maintiens toujours, envers et contre tout.

There was no means by which I might know, and so I chose the center opening as being as likely to lead me in the right direction as another. Here

Your soul: pure glucose edged with hints Of tentative and half-soiled tints

She seemed always to have seen him through a blur - first of sleepiness, then of distance and indifference - and now the fog had thickened till he was almost indistinguishable.

Well--there it was, and the fault was doubtless neither hers nor his, but that of the world they had grown up in, of their own moral contempt for it and physical dependence on it, of his half-talents and her half-principles, of the something in them both that was not stout enough to resist nor yet pliant enough to yield.

She rose too, not as if to meet him or to flee from him, but quietly, as though the worst of the task were done and she had only to wait; so quietly that, as he came close, her outstretched hands acted not as a check but as a guide to him.

The whole truth?" Miss Bart laughed. "What is truth?

All these sights, sounds and sensations, so familiar in themselves, so unutterably strange and meaningless in his new relation to them, were confusedly mingled in his brain

I don't say it wasn't straight, and yet I don't say it was straight. It was business.

She stared, perhaps suspecting irony, as she always did beneath the unintelligible.

You're universally liked because you're such a black hole in space. You don't have any real traits. You're sympa , at least as much as a narcissist can be, but that means nothing. You're beautiful and everybody projects onto you what they're looking for, which is easy to do since you don't stand for anything definite. You're a black hole in space.

And William laughed with his special blend of mischief, compounded of humor, spite, and sadness in a ratio even he wasn't sure of but that he mixed by feel.

They kept flipping back and forth, but it wasn't clear which was the more exquisitely pleasurable pain, to penetrate or to be penetrated.

It's a mild hell so comfortable that it resembles heaven.

I cannot be certain what I would have said. I knew that there was something sad and faintly distasteful about love's ending, particularly love that has never been fully realised. I might have hinted at that, but I doubt it. In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things. short story Sister Imelda

I cannot be certain what I would have said. I knew that there was something sad and faintly distasteful about love's ending, particularly love that has never been fully realised. I might have hinted at that, but I doubt it. In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things. Edna O'Brien, short story Sister Imelda, in Returning.

Con la lengua se puede llegar a cualquier parte o a ninguna.

Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end.

Life is complicated. You don't only have two simple choices: drunk or teetotaler; saint or sinner. It's more complicated than that.

I tend to think life is pastiche: I'm not sure what it's a pastiche of - we haven't found out yet.

de María la Sanguinaria; y cuando, al cabo de cinco tristes años, ésta murió sin haber tenido hijos, a Susan no le asombró que en Inglaterra la religión continuara siendo un tema sin resolver. Sólo

One seldom knows whether perseverance is noble or stupid until it's too late.