What I cannot forgive is dishonesty - and no matter what, or how hard, I would rather know the truth of which I today had such a clear & devastating vision from his mouth than hear foul evasions, blurrings and rattiness.
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What I cannot forgive is dishonesty - and no matter what, or how hard, I would rather know the truth of which I today had such a clear & devastating vision from his mouth than hear foul evasions, blurrings and rattiness.
I have a strange illusion quite often. I think I've become deaf. I have to make a little noise to prove I'm not. I clear my throat to show myself that everything is normal. It's like the little Japanese girl they found in the ruins of Hiroshima. Everything dead; and she was singing to her doll.
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.
I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don't believe in people just hoping.
You live out the confusions until they become clear.
When we came back to Paris it was clear and cold and lovely.
There was no one clear point of loss. It happened over and over again in a thousand small ways and the only truth there was to learn was that there was no getting used to it.
I could disappear from the face of the earth, and the world would go on moving without the slightest twinge. Things were tremendously complicated, to be sure, but one thing was clear: no one needed me.
Rules of living Don't worry, eat three square meals a day,say your prayers, be courteous to your creditors, keep your digestion good,steer clear of biliousness,exercise, go slow and go easy. May be there are other things that your special case requires to make you happy, but my friend, these, i reckon, will give you a good life.
And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning 'That path leads ever down into stagnation.
If I can make it clear that I’m still defying the Capitol right up to the end, the Capitol will have killed me... but not my spirit. What better way to give hope to the rebels?
An empty day, though clear and bright, Is just as dark as any night.
How clear everything becomes when you look from the darkness of a dungeon.
Over the field rang his clear voice calling: ‘Death! Ride, ride to ruin and the world’s ending!
Now let me be clear; millions of women around the world nurse their children beautifully for years without giving anybody else a hard time about it. Teat Nazis are a solely western upper-middle-class phenomenon occurring when highly ambitious women experience deprivation from outside modes of achievement.
Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. It now becomes clear on the contrary that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning
Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes' without asking a clear question.
To a clear eye the smallest fact is a window through which the infinite may be seen.
ice contains no future , just the past, sealed away. As if they're alive, everything in the world is sealed up inside, clear and distinct. Ice can preserve all kinds of things that way- cleanly, clearly. That's the essence of ice, the role it plays.
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