Quotes About Clarity

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Complexity is a sign of intelligence. Simplicity is a sign of wisdom

I usually know almost exactly how I feel. The problem is, I just can't tell anyone.

That was it. I never bothered filling in the details. The details didn't matter.

And so, perhaps, when I say I long to be a pane of glass, I am lying. I long for partial obscurity at the same time that I long for someone to know me.

Someday I'll understand more of these things. At the moment I just have to think them through. Not everything you want to know is explained properly on Google.

In theory, I would like to lead a transparent life. I would like my life to be as clear as a new pane of glass, without anything shameful and no dark shadows. I would like that. But if I am completely honest, I have to acknowledge secrets too painful even to tell myself. There

People around here didn't waste words; language was a tool, not a treat. You didn't roll it around on your tongue, revel in it.

Miro una imagen y veo las cosas que no están a la vista en ese momento. No es que sea una especie de mística, simplemente veo una constelación de hechos minúsculos que son demasiado pequeños para que la gente se fije en ellos. No detecto cada elemento en concreto de la constelación, pero la impresión general está clara. El Oso. El Cazador. El Cisne.

sometimes a mindfuck was a satisfying and productive fuck after all.

But of course she liked Isadora less now, because she needed her less and saw her more clearly.

If you ever wanted to get an accurate picture of who you are, Greer thought years later, all you had to do was look at everything you'd Googled over the past twenty-four hours. Most people would be appalled to see themselves with this kind of clarity.

You got caught up in some fantasy, and now you can't see anything at all.

She sometimes said, "I don't know," even when she did know. What she meant was that it was more comfortable to stay in vagueness than to leave it.

the Olympian vantage point that time provides:

I don't know,' Greer said to Zee, aware of a kind of familiar vagueness sweeping around her. She sometimes said, 'I don't know,' even when she did know. What she meant was that it was more comfortable to stay in vagueness than to leave it.

I picture him always like he's looking at us through glass—windshields, sliding patio doors.

and everything that's been seen and everything that's hidden.

Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don't understand.

Trying to justify a world we don't hold all the answers to is what bedevils the best of us. Sometimes it's better just to accept that things are as we see them.

I did not know how to say that, nor how to tell Goldie that I had not lived the life she obviously thought I had.

We have always found your mortal insistence on certainties strange. Nothing is as clear as you wish it to be. You have walked your path blindly until now. Time to open your eyes.

When everything changes we learn who we really are. What's really important. What we want most. We discover the truth in moments of disarray.