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• morning night and noon the traffic moves through and the murder and treachery of friends and lovers and all the people move through you. pain is the joy of knowing the unkindest truth that arrives without warning. life is being alone death is being alone. even the fools weep morning night and noon.

  Charles Bukowski

  Morning, Pain, Moving

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• the hopelessness that comes from knowing too little and feeling too much (so brittle, so dry he is in danger of the reverse: feeling nothing and knowing everything)

  Toni Morrison

  Knowing Everything, Feelings, Dry

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• But the actual touch of her lingered, inside his heart. That remained. In all the years of his life ahead, the long years without her, with never seeing her or hearing from her or knowing anything about her, if she was alive or happy or dead or what, that touch stayed locked within him, sealed in himself, and never went away. That one touch of her hand.

  Philip K. Dick

  Heart, Hands, Years

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “A Scanner Darkly”, p.164, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But just then, for that fraction of time, it seems as though all things are possible. You can look across the limitations of your own life, and see that they are really nothing. In that moment when time stops, it is as though you know you could undertake any venture, complete it and come back to yourself, to find the world unchanged, and everything just as you left it a moment before. And it's as though knowing that everything is possible, suddenly nothing is necessary.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Looks, World, Venture

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.602, Dell

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• I had grown up. I had learned that being a woman was knowing when to stand firm and when to compromise. I had learned to laugh and weep; I had learned that I was weak as well as strong. I had learned to love. I was no longer a rigid, upright tree that would not flex and bow, even though the gale threatened to snap it in two; I was the willow that bends and shivers and sways, and yet remains strong.

  Juliet Marillier

  Strong, Two, Laughing

  Juliet Marillier (2010). “Seer of Sevenwaters: A Sevenwaters Novel 5”, p.391, Pan Australia

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• Wisdom is knowing I am nothing, Love is knowing I am everything, and between the two my life moves.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Love, Life, Wisdom

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• It's knowing I'll never have what she has--a beauty so powerful it brings things to you. I fear I will always have to chase things I want. I'll always have to wonder whether I'm truly wanted or whether I've just been settled for.

  Libba Bray

  Powerful, Want, Wonder

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• There's a terror in knowing what the world is about

  David Bowie

  World, Terror, Superhuman

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• Are the angels of her bed the angels who come near me alone in mine? Are the green trees in her window the color is see in ripe plums? If she always sees backward and upside down without knowing it what chance do we have? I am haunted by the feeling that she is saying melting lords of death, avalanches, rivers and moments of passing through, And I am replying, "Yes, yes. Shoes and pudding.

  Jack Gilbert

  Angel, Color, Shoes

  Jack Gilbert (2012). “Collected Poems”, p.218, Knopf

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• It's funny how someone's perception of you can be formed without you even knowing it.

  Sarah Dessen

  Perception, Without You

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Dreamland”, p.240, Penguin

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• Afraid to Die Loveless Because I think if you die without knowing love in this life, that's how you'll spend eternity. Alone. Frozen.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Thinking, Knowing Love, Frozen

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• I thought of all the others who had tried to tie her to the ground and failed. So I resisted showing her the songs and poems I had written, knowing that too much truth can ruin a thing. And if that meant she wasn't entirely mine, what of it? I would be the one she could always return to without fear of recrimination or question. So I did not try to win her and contented myself with playing a beautiful game. But there was always a part of me that hoped for more, and so there was a part of me that was always a fool.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Beautiful, Song, Winning

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• Did she ever feel nostalgia for any of her girlhood dreams? But life was made up of a succession of dreams, some few to be realized, most to be set aside as time went on, one or two to persist for a lifetime. It was knowing when to abandon a dream, perhaps, that mattered and distinguished the successful people in life from the sad, embittered persons who never moved on from the first of life's great disappointments. Or from the airy dreamers who never really lived life at all.

  Mary Balogh

  Dream, Disappointment, Successful

  Mary Balogh (2008). “Simply Perfect”, p.42, Delacorte Press

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• The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.

  Hannah Arendt

  Numbers, Development, Demand

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• She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.

  Voltaire

  Crush, Voice, Spokes

  Voltaire (2003). “Candide”, p.16, Bantam Classics

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• When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you want.

  Haruki Murakami

  Want, Kind, Used

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• Sometimes it was daunting, knowing how easily I could break things. This one simple curse seemed to dominate my entire life.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Simple, Sometimes, Break

  Brandon Sanderson (2016). “Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians”, p.17, Macmillan

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• He did not dare to console her, knowing that it would have been like consoling a tiger run thru by a spear.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Running, Dare, Consoling

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• One way or another, I think virtually all of the prophets and early Apostles had their visionary moments of our time--a view that gave them courage in their own less successful eras. Those early brethren knew an amazing amount about us. Prophets such as Moses, Nephi, and the brother of Jared saw the latter days in tremendously detailed vision. Some of what they saw wasn't pleasing, but surely all those earlier generations took heart from knowing that there would finally be one dispensation that would not fail.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Brother, Heart, Successful

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• My mother has always been the point I calibrated myself against. In knowing where she was, I could always locate myself, as well. These months she'd been gone, I felt like I'd been floating, loose and boundaryless, but now that I knew where she was, I kept waiting for a kind of certainty to kick in. It didn't. Instead, I was more unsure than ever, stuck between this new life and the one I'd left behind.

  Sarah Dessen

  Mother, Waiting, New Life

  "Lock and Key". Book by Sarah Dessen, 2008.

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• He almost danced to the fridge, found the three least hairy things in it, put them on a plate and watched them intently for two minutes. Since they made no attempt to move within that time he called them breakfast and ate them. Between them they killed a virulent space disease he'd picked up without knowing it in the Flargathon Gas Swamps a few days earlier, which otherwise would have killed off half the population of the Western Hemisphere, blinded the other half, and driven everyone else psychotic and sterile, so the Earth was lucky there.

  Douglas Adams

  Moving, Two, Space

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.510, Pan Macmillan

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• Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.

  Plotinus

  Beautiful, Ignorance, Self

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• Real power is control. Knowing that you can do anything...and not doing it only because you can.

  Joan D. Vinge

  Real, Can Do, Real Power

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• For the first time, I notice the lax skin at Mrs. Nightwing's jaw, the fine down that lies upon her cheek like the imprint of a childe's hand, and I wonder what it must be like watching yourself soften under the years, unable to stop it. what it's like measuring your days in perfecting girls' curtsies and drinking nightly glasses of sherry, trying to keep up with the world as it pulls you spinning into the furure, knowing you are always one step behind it.

  Libba Bray

  Girl, Lying, Drinking

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