Quotes About Ambiguity

Nous sommes aussi l'ensemble des fantômes qui nous hantent... nous sommes plusieurs personnages en un, si convaincants dans les différents rôles que nous avons assumés qu'il nous est impossible de savoir lequel nous avons été vraiment, lequel nous sommes devenus, lequel nous survivra.

Les hommes sont ainsi faits ; si Dieu les a créés à Son image, Il n'a pas précisé laquelle.

All men and women go through the same fog.

Or was it possibly...nothing more than a read ?

I thought he was going to leave me in a state of deep and continuing mystery but I really didn't mind because he'd called me 'dear boy',

Why does it always feel like I'm standing on the edge of some kind of big, black pit?" "There are a lot of pits," Donovan said. "The most interesting lives are lived walking around the rims.

She used to pride herself on her refusal to see two sides of an argument, but increasingly she accepts that issues are more ambiguous and complicated than she once thought.

I get this occasionally, the need to define myself as a something-or-other, and at various times in my life I have wondered if I´m a Goth, a homosexual, a Jew, a Catholic or a manic-depressive, wheter I am adopted, or have a hole in my heart, or possess the ability to move objects with the power of my mind, and have always, mostly regretfully, come to conclusion that I´m none of the above. The fact is I´m actually not ANYTHING.

Just kidding' was exactly what people wrote when they meant every word of it.

If a man comes up to you in the street and asks you for an address, is he lost or is he interrogating you?

it seeks to 'fix' our understanding, but at the same time it reveals how any such fixity, and such desire for stability and certainty, is constructed on shifting sands.

Bad things happen in nice places, and nice things happen in bad places. But that doesn't mean the places themselves are hard to tell apart.

The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.

We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvable problems.

A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white.

From them, I learned another lesson: that I can accept-in fact am relieved to accept-a world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white. There is much good, but to enjoy the beauty, the love, one must bear the painful.

aphorism—"A photograph is a secret about a secret; the more it tells you, the less you know"—

We're only certain ("certain only"?) about what we don't understand.

May your wonder always exceed your certainty.

He then wrestled away the man's gun and "dick-whipped" him with it. I am unclear as to whether or not this means he struck the man in the groin or merely slapped him in the same manner in which he would slap a person with his dick.

There's something I don't trust about the way she exploded and then came back from the dead like that.

You never know whether you've already experienced your greatest moment or your worst

Glittering generalities are designed to blind you from the dull Devil in the details

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