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• I am a cage, in search of a bird.

  Franz Kafka

  Bird, Novelists, Cages

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• Even if things look very precise and very organized, chaos is always there. But I like the moment of chaos to be at the beginning. I cannot deal with the chaos at the end.

  Italo Zucchelli

  Moments

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• chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.

  Alexander Pope

  Passion

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1831). “Poetical Works”, p.48

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• You're an entropic chaos factor

  Steig Larsson

  Factors

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• Can we really conquer chaos so easily? If that were so, I should be able to prune the pandemonium of my own soul into something neat and tidy rather than this maze of wants and needs and misgivings that has me forever feeling as if I cannot fit into the landscape of things.

  Libba Bray

  Neat And Tidy, Forever, Soul

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.226, Simon and Schuster

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• What a chimaera then is man, what a novelty, what a monster, what chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, yet an imbecile earthworm; depository of truth, yet a sewer of uncertainty and error; pride and refuse of the universe. Who shall resolve this tangle?

  Blaise Pascal

  Truth, Pride, Men

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• All through the night, she battled herself. Or battled to know herself. She fell apart and then put herself back together and then she fell apart again and put herself back together, over and over.

  Nnedi Okorafor

  Night, Together, Knows

  Nnedi Okorafor (2011). “Akata Witch”, p.57, Penguin

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• This is the language of the world before—a world of chaos and confusion and happiness and despair—before the blitz turned streets to grids, cities to prisons, and hearts to dust.

  Lauren Oliver

  Heart, Dust, Cities

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.679, Hachette UK

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• Humanity today is like a waking dreamer, caught between the fantasies of sleep and the chaos of the real world. The mind seeks but cannot find the precise place and hour. We have created a Star Wars civilization, with Stone Age emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology. We thrash about. We are terribly confused by the mere fact of our existence, and a danger to ourselves and to the rest of life.

  E. O. Wilson

  Stars, Confused, Real

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• I felt myself on the edge of the world; peering over the rim into a fathomless chaos of eternal night.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Night, World, Eternal

  H.P. Lovecraft (2008). “Waking Up Screaming: Haunting Tales of Terror”, p.220, Del Rey

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• Perhaps it is controlling the chaos within more than the chaos without.

  Erin Morgenstern

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• In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.

  Novalis

  Art, Order, Veils

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• Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all art; to give a name to the cosmos, we see despite all the chaos.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, Names, Giving

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.41, Convergent Books

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• I have to get my life back on track. Order as an antidote to chaos. Calm after the storm.

  Susane Colasanti

  Order, Track, Storm

  Susane Colasanti (2009). “Take Me There”, p.138, Penguin

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• Magnus began to be truly alarmed. Will's voice would have shaken, betraying that his cruelty had been part of his playacting, but his son's laugh was that of someone genuinely delighted by the chaos erupting all around him

  Cassandra Clare

  Son, Voice, Laughing

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson (2014). “The Bane Chronicles”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

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• Ragnor [was] always happy to see chaos, but not be involved in it.

  Cassandra Clare

  Always Happy, Involved, Ragnor Fell

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “The Midnight Heir”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• People look down on stuff like geography and meteorology, and not only because they're standing on one and being soaked by the other. They don't look quite like real science. But geography is only physics slowed down and with a few trees stuck on it, and meteorology is full of excitingly fashionable chaos and complexity. And summer isn't a time. It's a place as well. Summer is a moving creature and likes to go south for the winter.

  Terry Pratchett

  Summer, Real, Moving

  Terry Pratchett (1996). “Feet of Clay: A Novel of Discworld”, Harper Prism

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• Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing & love me for my writing. It is also much more: a way of ordering and reordering the chaos of experience.

  Sylvia Plath

  Writing, Way, You Don't Love Me

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• Without sarcasm I sink into chaos.

  Antonin Artaud

  Sarcasm

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• Piper!” Frank yelled. “Counter those empousai! We need some chaos.” “Thought you’d never ask.” She started catcalling at the female demons: “Your makeup is smeared! Your friend called you ugly! That one is making a face behind your back!

  Rick Riordan

  Makeup, Needs, Ugly

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• Chaos and destruction do tend to take away a person's dating possibilities.

  Veronica Roth

  Dating, Possibility, Destruction

  Veronica Roth (2015). “Allegiant Collector's Edition”, p.16, HarperCollins

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• Show me a person without prejudice of any kind on any subject and I'll show you someone who may be admirably virtuous but is surely no gardener. Prejudice against people is reprehensible, but a healthy set of prejudices is a gardener's best friend. Gardening is complicated, and prejudice simplifies it enormously.

  Allen Lacy

  People, Healthy, Gardening

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• Our region is going to be in chaos for a long time, ... The media's not playing it up to make it seem worse than it is. The reality is that it's as bad or worse than what you're seeing on TV. It's going to take a lot of help from a lot of people to get everybody back to living a normal life again.

  David Toms

  Reality, Media, Long

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• Honesty is the mother of confidence; it unites, combines and solidifies society. Dishonesty is disintegration; it destroys confidence; it brings social chaos. . . .

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Mother, Honesty, Social

  Robert Green Ingersoll, Clinton P. Farrell (1911). “The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll”

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• Design [is] the emerging ethos formulating and then answering a very new question: What shall we do now, in the face of the chaos that we have created?

  John Hockenberry

  Motivation, Inspiration, Ethos

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