Quotes About Clarity

After all, things are what they are. A message is a message, plates are plates, men are men, and life is life.

The darkness ahead was not impenetrable.

Don't put it into words. Let us leave some things to be understood, not said.

It's only before realities set in that we can treasure our delusions.

at a certain age we learned to see right through it, and that age is now.

Her face looks like a room with no drapes or shades.

It's so easy to be wrong about the things you're close to. I know that now. I learned that then.

she had the odd sense that she had been missing something, seeing the world flat when everything was rounded.

photographs you had to explain, which meant they were a failure.

Once again she had the odd sense that she had been missing something, seeing the world flat when everything was rounded.

I am never afraid of what I know

we should see what was there, and know what was what, and be much less frightened than by only seeing bits of things that we can't understand.

et, de plus, cela vous brouille les idées

There are long stretches of time when I don't know what I am doing, or what I have done - nothing mostly, but sometimes it would be nice to know what kind of nothing that was...

A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking

Let's not talk about it any more, but if you still want anything please write to me about it, because I can say what I mean much better on paper.

Niciodat? imaginea lui nu mi-a ap?rut atât de limpede. Nu-mi trebuie nici o fotografie de-a lui, îl v?d aÈ™a de bine, aÈ™a de bine.

Nothing else mattered.

An empty day, though clear and bright. Is just as dark as any night.

I have my own ideas, plans and ideals, but am unable to articulate them yet.

Alas, it has had to be that I am only able---except on a few rare occasions---to look at nature through dirty net curtains hanging before very dusty windows. And it's no pleasure looking through these any longer, because nature is just the one thing that really must be unadulterated.

Be pure in heart,, be pure in mind!

Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious. When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw the lights on for your reader. He or she will recognize his or her life and truth in what you say, in the pictures you have painted, and this decreases the terrible sense of isolation that we have all had too much of.

Certainty is missing the point entirely.