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Quotes About Perplexity

For my part, it was Greek to me.
~ William Shakespeare
I g-g-guess...I'm dead?" she heard her own voice call out, strangely high-pitched and thin. For a long time, she heard nothing else. And then: "Hi, Dead. I'm Dan.
~ Peter Lerangis
Szpindel's eyebrows drew together like courting caterpillars.
~ Peter Watts
Je n'ai jamais su au juste quel est son âge.
~ Philippe Claudel
Grahhhhh." I looked up at LaForce. Did he just, Grahhhhh, at me?
~ Phillip Tomasso III
These are my daughters, I suppose. But where in the world did the children vanish?
~ Phyllis McGinley
Erano indefinibili e questo creava maggior imbarazzo.
~ Pier Vittorio Tondelli
I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize.
~ Dana Schutz
How could this world be so unlike the world that I believed I was living in? I can't describe it. Do I not want to describe it, or do I simply not possess the vocabulary?
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
And there are no stars and that you're never really sure who's doing what and what voice is what and, you know what I mean? It's supposed to be quite elusive.
~ Damon Albarn
Walter non aveva mai capito come vivere, ma adesso lo capiva meno che mai
~ Jonathan Franzen
But I still couldn't figure out what it all meant. The more I found out, the less I understood.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
They learned to hate her unknowability, her untouchability, the collage of her.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
The more I found, the less I understood.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Why do we do that? Why are the painful things always electromagnets?
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
I know what the Greeks do not know, incertitude.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
I think—the hero observes that nothing is so frightening as a labyrinth with no center.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
I do not know which of us has written this page.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
to no one did it occur the book and the maze were one and the same thing.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
La gloria é una forma di incomprensione, forse la peggiore.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Había recibido cinco balazos. Desconocedor feliz de la muerte, un gato de lo más ordinario lo rondaba con cierta perplejidad.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
For love unsatisfied the world is a mystery, a mystery which satisfied love appears to understand.
~ Jorges Luis Borges
Mark sighed to himself as he walked home. The afternoon was unexpectedly warm, the sky deep blue and cloudless. You figure her out, he told himself. You're the expert. Mark Carney, girl expert. Everyone should ask me for advice. I know everything about girls, except how to get along with them, how to get along without them, and how to understand them. And I can't even worry about Marcy right now because I've got a date with Janine.
~ A. Bates
Gideon resisted a strange urge to laugh. Looks like homicide. What did he think—that a heart attack had blown away half the man's head?
~ Aaron Elkins