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Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons  attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.
~ Mark Twain
God forgive us, mother, we are hunting the wrong man! I have not slept any all night. I am now awaiting, at dawn
~ Mark Twain
There's a good spot tucked away somewhere in everybody. You'll be a long time finding it sometimes.
~ Mark Twain
Come morning I found the day as I have found every other day--without relief or explanation.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
i miss the man i thought i was before i met her the man who would have saved her who would have done something who would have been tom maybe hes the one im looking for or maybe im looking for all of them i miss u i love u there's no second ive lived you can't call your own -Navy
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
Looking everywhere, even though there's absolutely nothing, nothing anywhere.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
I say, 'Don't lose your heart, Rube.' And very clearly, without moving, my brother answers me. He says, 'I'm not tryin' to lose it, Cam. I'm tryin' to find it.
~ Markus Zusak
A fact regarding Max Vandenburg He would search the faces on Munich street for a book-thieving girl.
~ Markus Zusak
We violate the innocence of things in the name of rationality so we can wander about, uninterrupted, in our search for passion and sentiment.
~ Marlena De Blasi
Every questioning is a seeking. Every seeking takes its direction beforehand from what is sought. Questioning is a knowing search for beings in their thatness and whatness.
~ Martin Heidegger
Sometimes, one yearns for something.For the ultimate in happiness. I yearn for it,and don't know where to look for it any longer. And I don't know if I would recognize it if I found it. And the longer I look, the more selfish I grow.For I think only of my own happiness. i think I have lost the ability to make someone else happy. If I ever had it. And I suppose we can never be happy unless we can also give happiness.
~ Mary Balogh
Si queremos encontrar efectos extraños y combinaciones extraordinarias, debemos buscarlos en la vida misma, que siempre es más atrevida que cualquier ezfuerzo de la imaginación
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
It is a tangled skein, you understand, and I am looking for a loose end.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
nodded, resisting a temptation to take over and direct the search himself for the missing truck and driver. Action would be a therapy. The cold of several days, and dampness with it, had
~ Arthur Hailey
De hele wereld is vol mensen die hun hele leven op zoek blijven naar het wonder van de liefde zonder het ooit te zien. Het is heel simpel en vanzelfsprekend, maar onvindbaar voor wie ernaar zoekt.
~ Arthur Japin
Because he's only a little boat looking for a harbor.
~ Arthur Miller
Every man does have a star. the star of one's honesty. and you spend your life groping for it, but once its out it never lights again.
~ Arthur Miller
Then you'll feel your cheek scratched... A little kiss, like a crazy spider, Will run round your neck... And you'll say to me : Find it ! bending your head - And we'll take a long time to find that creature - Which travels a lot...
~ Arthur Rimbaud
Es difícil encontrar la felicidad dentro de uno mismo, pero es imposible encontrarla en otro lugar.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Si, comme il arrivait quelquefois, elle avait les traits d'une femme que j'avais connue dans la vie, j'allais me donner tout entier à ce but : la retrouver, comme ceux qui partent en voyage pour voir de leurs yeux une cité désirée et s'imaginent qu'on peut goûter dans une réalité le charme du songe. Peu à peu son souvenir s'évanouissait, j'avais oublié la fille de mon rêve.
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In many the entry point is never found at all.)
~ Atul Gawande
You have forbidden me to look for you, you may damn me, you may choose to discard me...but by the right of the fact that I am alive, I must know that you are...I must see you this once. - Dagny Taggart
~ Ayn Rand
You, whom I have always loved and never found, you whom I expected to see at the end of the rails beyond the horizon—
~ Ayn Rand
He walked, groping for a sentence that hung in his mind as an empty shape. He could neither fill it or dismiss it.
~ Ayn Rand