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Quotes About Complexity

Ce qu'il ne comprenait pas, c'était tout ce trouble dans une chose aussi simple que l'amour.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Human life is a sad show, undoubtedly; ugly, heavy and complex. Art has no other end, for people of feeling than to conjure away the burden and bitterness.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Dar cum sa vorbesti despre un rau care nu poate fi descris,care isi schimba infatisarea ca norii, care se involbureaza ca vantul?
~ Gustave Flaubert
Frauenherzen sind wie jene kleinen Geheimschränke voll ineinander geschachtelter Schubfächer; man müht sich, bricht sich die Nägel ab, und findet dann auf dem Grund eine verdorrte Blume, ein Krümchen Staub – oder gähnende Leere!
~ Gustave Flaubert
Mora da osje?aji imaju malo rije?i kojima mogu da se služe.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Ja ta lisas nagu omaenese mõtte jätkuks: No näete nüüd, põle see elu ühti nii hea ega nii halb kui paistab.
~ Guy de Maupassant
If you make a man a symbol of things that are bigger than any one person can possibly be, you risk stripping that man of his sense of who he really is.
~ Hector Tobar
I will not say: that is because I am a city that does not want to surrender. Beseige me. It is because I am a deep, cool pyramid. Go through me. Pass through all my rooms and know my subterfuge. But you are passing right by the little room that I want to keep closed, and you don't see it. There is a secret. I myself do not know it, I just know it exists.
~ Helene Cixous
Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
~ H.L. Mencken
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
~ H.L. Mencken
For every subtle and complicated question, there is a perfectly simple and straightforward answer, which is wrong.
~ H.L. Mencken
Per ogni problema complesso vi è una soluzione semplice. Ed è sempre sbagliata
~ H.L. Mencken
Benzersiz ve karma??k olan? doÄŸaüstücülüÄŸün ilkel kestirmeciliÄŸiyle k?sa yoldan aç?klamaya çal??mak ancak yeterince düÅŸünmesini bilmeyen insanlar?n harc?d?r.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
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~ H.P. Lovecraft
All the objects—organic and inorganic alike—were totally beyond description or even comprehension. Gilman sometimes compared the inorganic masses to prisms, labyrinths, clusters of cubes and planes, and Cyclopean buildings; and the organic things struck him variously as groups of bubbles, octopi, centipedes, living Hindoo idols, and intricate Arabesques roused into a kind of ophidian animation.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
He cultivated ideological fuzziness.
~ H.W. Brands
all technical professions have an incentive to make themselves look more complicated than they really are so that they can justify the high fees their members charge for their services.
~ Ha-Joon Chang
95 per cent of economics is common sense – made to look difficult, with the use of jargons and mathematics.
~ Ha-Joon Chang
In this scenario, complexity and change may be driven by female choice.83
~ Hal Whitehead
It is both more difficult and more complicated to die than people think.
~ Halldor Laxness
And love, who can say the way it winds.. like a serpent in the garden of our untroubled minds
~ handler daniel
The best stories are the open ones, those you don't quite understand.
~ Hanif Kureishi
Women are attracted to artists, of course, as they are to doctors and prisoners on death row. The powerful and the vulnerable. If you want to continue to get laid, particularly as you get older, that's where to head, boy.
~ Hanif Kureishi
London seemed like a house with five thousand rooms, all different; the kick was to work out how they connected, and eventually to walk through all of them.
~ Hanif Kureishi