“if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.”

― Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning

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“To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely ordered variety on the chords of emotion—a soul in which knowledge passes...”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“All I know is what the words know, and the dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning, a middle and an end as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.”

― Samuel Beckett, Molloy

“Why us for that matter? Why anything ? Because this moment simply is.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“I have no taste for work any longer, I can do nothing more except wait for night.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

“How can I help being a humbug, . . . when all these people make me do things that everybody knows can't be done?”

― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

“Crowns do queer things to the heads beneath them”

― George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

“My life is not some Funeral Grade bit of compost that will rot tomorrow and be outlived by my name in an obituary.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

“There’s something perverse about women... they’re all masochists at heart.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

“Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.”

― Henry Kissinger, Diplomacy

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