Quotes About Obscure

An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.

the gimmickry is simply a device, a defense, to obscure the black, blinding, murderous rage and sorrow at the core of this whole story, which is both too black and blinding to look at ---avert your eyes!--- but nevertheless useful, at least to the author, even in caricatured or condensed form, because telling as many people as possible about it helps, he thinks, to dilute the pain and bitterness and thus facilitate its flushing from his soul

They were not rich. They were not powerful. They were truly the forgotten.

both because of the cold and also to help hide his face.

Abstruse dullness is actually a much more effective shield than is secrecy. For the great disadvantage of secrecy is that it's interesting.

abstruse dullness is actually a much more effective shield than is secrecy.

Astros extinguíos! No aclare vuestra luz mis oscuros designios.

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma

A Constitution", said Napoleon, "should be short and obscure.

the damaging notion that obscure is the way philosophy should sound.

The real universe of ordinary language is that of the struggle for existence. It is indeed an ambiguous, vague, obscure universe, and is certainly in need of clarification. Moreover, such clarification may well fulfill a therapeutic function, and if philosophy would become therapeutic, it would really come into its own.

Le secret des grandes fortunes sans cause apparente est un crime oublié, parce qu'il a été proprement fait.

Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of -- heightened nightsight, an empathy shared with the beasts, a utilization of the more obscure abilities of our minds. Nothing that science can't explain away. Wizardry is spells and enchantments. Fairy tales.

Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.

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word, but it left neither of them any the wiser.

Most people remember the Day of Grieving as an obscure holiday. The first three hours of school were canceled and we remained in our homerooms. Teachers passed out mimeographs related to the day's theme, which was never officially announced, as Mrs. Woodhouse felt it inappropriate to single out the girls' tragedy. The result was that the tragedy was diffused and universalized. As Kevin Tiggs put it, It seemed like we were supposed to feel sorry for everything that ever happened, ever.

My dreams tend to be either so obscure as to seem random, or so obviously connected to my subconscious that it's embarrassing- as if even my hidden depths lack depth.

If you want to study one of these strange organisms, you had better have a good justification. It's not good to study gene organisation in some obscure insect that no one's ever heard about.

Nothing discernable to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidible, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.

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A coalescence of verbose convolution, veering on imperceptibility, impinges upon a plain proclamation an apparent profundity.

En noviembre, a esta hora ya está tan oscuro que uno no puede ver ni la mano que tiene delante; él tampoco puede verse la mano que tiene ante sus ojos

On some other world, possibly it is different. Better. There are clear good and evil alternatives. Not these obscure admixtures, these blends, with no proper tool by which to untangle the components.