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It would have been better to come back at the same hour,” said the fox. “If, for example, you came at four o’clock in the afternoon, then at three o’clock I shall begin to be happy. I shall feel happier and happier as the hour advances. At four o’clock, I shall already be worrying and jumping about. I shall show you how happy I am! But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you . . . One must observe the proper rites . . .
Antoine De Saint-ExuperyRead
You know the difference between a real science and a pseudoscience? A real science recognizes and accepts its own history without feeling attacked. When you tell a psychiatrist his mental institution came from a lazar house, he becomes infuriated.
Michel FoucaultRead
Before I met No I thought that violence meant shouting and hitting and war and blood. Now I know that there can also be violence in silence and that it’s sometimes invisible to the naked eye. There’s violence in the time that conceals wounds, the relentless succession of days, the impossibility of turning back the clock. Violence is what escapes us. It’s silent and hidden. Violence is what remains inexplicable, what stays forever opaque.
Delphine De ViganRead
But, you know, you can't be a star at home.
Jim CarreyRead
Passion is a rather frightening thing because if you have passion you don't know where it will take you.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiRead
You know, I sometimes think we Sort too soon.
J. K. RowlingRead
People said it because other people said it. They did not know why it was being said and heard everywhere. they did not give or ask for reasons.
Ayn RandRead
I didn't know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for 'em.
Richard WrightRead
What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide. "That is because I know what life is," said Martin.
VoltaireRead
Remember everything is right until it's wrong. You'll know when it's wrong.
Ernest HemingwayRead
Either you're a person wondering if you have a soul, or you're a soul who knows that being a person isn't real.
Deepak ChopraRead
I don't know, now, when I first looked at Hella and found her stale, found her body uninteresting, her presence grating. It seemed to happen all at once—I suppose that only means that it had been happening for a long time.
James A. BaldwinRead
I have a heart to be stabbed in or shot in, I have no doubt, and, of course, if it ceased to beat, I would cease to be. But you know what I mean. I have no softness there, no—sympathy—sentiment—nonsense.
Charles DickensRead
He was kindhearted, in a way. You know the sort of kind heart: it made him uncomfortable more often than it made him do anything; and even when he did anything, it did not prevent him from grumbling, losing his temper and swearing (mostly to himself).
J. R. R. TolkienRead
All right, beautiful. You've got me tied down to this stone table, and there's a knife in your hand that says you get to rule Narnia for another hundred years. So maybe I die, and winter goes on. Maybe the hunger and the darkness and the fear never end. But as long as the children believe in me, I know that Aslan will live again. I, the Great Lion, Son of The Emperor Over The Sea, will live again and -- aaaaauugh!!
C. S. LewisRead
When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do.
Anne SextonRead
Learn and obey the rules very well so you will know how to break them properly.
Dalai LamaRead
Surely you know that if a man can't be cured of churchgoing, the next best thing is to send him all over the neighbourhood looking for the church that "suits" him until he becomes a taster or connoisseur of churches.
C. S. LewisRead
What do any of us really know about love?
Raymond CarverRead
We allow ourselves to be blown by the winds because we do know what we want: our hearts know it, even if our thoughts are sometimes slow to follow- but in the end they do catch up with our hearts and then we think we have made a decision
Muhammad AsadRead
After a while he played with the pencil and the paper again and was delighted when he discovered how to make a mark with the one on the other. Various noises continued outside, but he didn't know whether they were real or not. He then talked to his table for a week to see how it would react.
Douglas AdamsRead

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