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Quotes About Discovery

Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures.
~ Guy Debord
We should have met in Finavir.
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
We can never truly know the path we have not walked.
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
and the world's possibilities were hidden from her like the west bank of the river in an autumn fog.
~ Gwen Bristow
To fall in love in New York is to walk,
~ Gwen Cooper
But the beauty is in the walking -- we are betrayed by destinations.
~ Gwyn Thomas
When you're in the middle of your depression, pay good attention to it, because, tended carefully, you never know where it might lead you.
~ Gwyneth Lewis
Rea azon gondolkozott, hogyan iszik a kefeköt?, és egyáltalán ki az és mit csinál. Csöngettek, mert éppen volt áram (…).
~ György Spiró
It is curious how men who are good friends, close friends, true friends, who may have been on the most intimate and familiar terms over any number of years, can nevertheless know next to nothing of one another's love-lives.
~ Gyles Brandreth
I love the old, but I'm intrigued by the new. And sometimes excited by it, too.
~ Gyles Brandreth
That's the way mining is. You always find a way to cheat fate," he says. "That's what's beautiful about being a miner: Supernatural things always happen." Now
~ Hector Tobar
Estas son la ma
~ Hector Tobar
I did not even know this existed...this world, I did not know. I thought it existed only in one's head, and in dreams....And now: here I am.
~ Helene Cixous
What is this moment called when we suddenly recognize what we have never seen? And which gives us a joy like a wound?
~ Helene Cixous
Writing is writing what you cannot know before you have written: it is preknowing and not knowing, blindly, with words. It occurs at the point where blindness and light meet.
~ Helene Cixous
One must have travelled a great deal to discover the obvious. One must have thoroughly rubbed and exhausted one's own eyes to get rid of the thousands of scales we start with...There are poets who have strived to do this...in quest of what I call the second innocence, the one that comes after knowing, the one that no longer knows, the one that knows how not to know.
~ Helene Cixous
From tender infancy Smith has been an early riser. He sleeps so little that Morpheus barely knows him by sight. When he dreams he only has time for a synopsis. He was the first man to discover that you can cut a sleeping pill in half and enjoy a nap.
~ H. Allen Smith
Well, if a Little Fuzzy finds a door open, I'd like to know why he shouldn't come in and look around.
~ H. Beam Piper
went across the more civilized Third
~ H. Beam Piper
I wanted to find out why. But when Professor Dandrik saw what was happening, he became almost hysterical, and ordered the accelerator shut down as though he were afraid it would blow up in his face." "I think it has blown up in his face," Prince Travann said quietly.
~ H. Beam Piper
Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.
~ H. G. Wells
Every person that you meet knows something you don't; learn from them.
~ H. Jackson Brown (Jr.)
Every once in a while, take the scenic route.
~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Become a tourist for a day in your own hometown. Take a tour. See the sights.
~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.