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Quotes About Rarity

Era uno de esos sentimientos puros que no estorban el ejercicio de la vida, que se cultivan porque son raros y cuya pérdida afligiría más de lo que alegraría su posesión.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Les vraies femmes de lettres sont des phénomènes. Leur rareté fait leur prix.
~ Guy de Maupassant
And if anyone manages to get their sexuality and their love lined up together, they are indeed lucky. It is as rare as a fine spring day in the country.
~ Hanif Kureishi
Good things are rare. They are to be cherished because they always leave us too soon.
~ Harlan Coben
Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
~ Emily Dickinson
Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples.
~ Sherwood Anderson
it is only a very rare artist that is as good as his art.
~ Simon Leys
it is only n very rare artist that is as good as his art.
~ Simon Leys
The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability.
~ Jerry Pournelle
There are people of spirit and there are people of passion, both less common than one might think. Rarer still are the people of spirit and passion. But rarest of all is a passionable spirit.
~ Martin Buber
Danger and anger are everywhere. Love is the rarity, the gem buried in the core of the mine, the outpost of God.
~ Tanith Lee
You are very kind and very intelligent and those elements are not always found together.
~ Maya Angelou
They really do look gold.How is that even possible?How can someone have golden eyes?
~ Meg Cabot
But if you have so much fun, then why don't you get together more than once a month?' She looked at me like a wise old owl and winked. 'Do something too often and it stops being special.
~ beth hoffman
Nothing else is as fulfilling as playing a part in which you are able to have a significant say in the creative process all the way through. How many actors get to do that? It's extremely rare.
~ Tom Hollander
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
~ Josh Billings
Common sense is not so common.
~ Voltaire
There's bound to be a job for a good cook somewhere. There aren't that many of us about, you know,' she informed them seriously.
~ Faith Martin
Sure, but why does it have to be in MY lifetime? {when told that a voice like Frank Sinatra's came only once in a lifetime]
~ Bing Crosby
But just as a beautiful fish will occasionally sparkle in the waters of a polluted river that runs through a stretch of factories, so in the flow of old paper the spine of a rare book will occasionally shine forth, and if for a moment I turn away, dazzled, I always turn back in time to rescue it.
~ Bohumil Hrabal
It is curious to what a degree one may become attached to a fine tree, especially when it is placed where trees are rare.
~ bovee christian nestell xi
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable,
~ Brad Stone
I don't think most people would like my personality. There might be a few -- very few, I would imagine- who are impressed by it, but rarely would anyone like it.
~ Haruki Murakami
I think the fact that Brock Lesnar is not on the road 52 weeks a year, is not on 'Monday Night Raw' every episode, is not performing 300 matches per year... I think that dictates to the public, 'Brock Lesnar is special.' That an appearance by Brock Lesnar in an of itself is newsworthy. It's not commonplace.
~ Paul Heyman