meaning Quotes

“I never know what I mean in my telegrams—especially those I send from America. Clearness is too expensive.”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

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“Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is the only value in passing the time as comfortably as possible?”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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“Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning in it, which will give you fresh courage, and you will understand that prayer is an education.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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“He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is also detestable. And it has a fascination, too, that goes to work upon him.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

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“It is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular, it is why he does it. ”

― A. W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God

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“If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.”

― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

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“I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

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“Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols.”

― Oscar Wilde, Intentions

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“People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order, so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle

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“There was only one creature in the world that could concentrate for him all the brightness and meaning of life. It was she.”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

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