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• Folklore is the perfect second skin. From under its hide, we can see all the shimmering, shadowy uncertainties of the world.

  Jane Yolen

  Perfect, Skins, World

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• The uncertainty of our future is nothing more than a fog of breath on a windowpane.

  Libba Bray

  Fog, Our Future, Breaths

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• Hardly anything else reveals so well the fear and uncertainty among men as the length to which they will go to hide their true selves from each other and even from their own eyes.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Eye, Men, Self

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• Real danger is nothing more than just living. Of course, living is merely the chaos of existence, but more than that it's a crazy mixed-up business of dismantling existence instant by instant to the point where the original chaos is restored, and taking strength from the uncertainty and the fear that chaos brings to re-create existence instant by instant. You won't find another job as dangerous as that. There isn't any fear in existence itself, or any uncertainty, but living creates it.

  Yukio Mishima

  Jobs, Crazy, Real

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• There’s faith that knows itself as faith, Proyas, and there’s faith that confuses itself for knowledge. The first embraces uncertainty, acknowledges the mysteriousness of the God. It begets compassion and tolerance. Who can entirely condemn when they’re not entirely certain they’re in the right? But the second, Proyas, the second embraces certainty and only pays lip service to the God’s mystery. It begets intolerance, hatred, violence.

  R. Scott Bakker

  Compassion, Hatred, Tolerance

  R. Scott Bakker (2008). “The Darkness that Comes Before: The Prince of Nothing, Book One (The Prince of Nothing)”, p.314, The Overlook Press

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• I cannot have chaos erupting around me until I am prepared for it. I am a collector. I am an observer. I don't participate. My resources, and my standing, must be secure before I can allow the uncertainty of war to crash down upon us.

  Derek Landy

  War, Chaos, Crash

  Derek Landy (2015). “Skulduggery Pleasant -”, p.115, HarperCollins UK

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• The willingness to consider possibility requires a tolerance of uncertainty.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Tolerance, Possibility, Willingness

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.223, Penguin

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• I know absolutely nothing about where I'm going. I'm fine with that. I'm happy about it. Before, I had nothing. I had no life, no friends, and no family really, and I didn't really care. I had nothing, and nothing to lose, and then I knew loss. What I cared about was gone; it was all lost. Now I have everything to gain; everything is a clean slate. It's all blank pages waiting to be written on. It's all about going forward. It's all about uncertainty and possibilities.

  Gregory Galloway

  Loss, Waiting, No Friends

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• Metta sees truly that our integrity is inviolate, no matter what our life situation may be. We do not need to fear anything. We are whole: our deepest happiness is intrinsic to the nature of our minds, and it is not damaged through uncertainty and change.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Integrity, Meditation, Mind

  Sharon Salzberg (2008). “Lovingkindness”, p.27, Shambhala Publications

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• This had been real: real in its flaws and uncertainties, real in its small triumphs, real in its compromises and understanding.

  Juliet Marillier

  Real, Understanding, Triumph

  Juliet Marillier (2011). “Heart's Blood”, p.247, Pan Macmillan

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• Confined on the ship, from which there is no escape, the madman is delivered to the river with its thousand arms, the sea with its thousand roads, to that great uncertainty external to everything. He is a prisoner in the midst of what is the freest, the openest of routes: bound fast at the infinite crossroads. He is the Passenger par excellence: that is, the prisoner of the passage. And the land he will come to is unknown—as is, once he disembarks, the land from which he comes. He has his truth and his homeland only in that fruitless expanse between two countries that cannot belong to him.

  Michel Foucault

  Country, Sea, Land

  Michel Foucault (2001). “Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason”, p.9, Psychology Press

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• What an abyss of uncertainty, whenever the mind feels overtaken by itself; when it, the seeker, is at the same time the dark region through which it must go seeking and where all its equipment will avail it nothing. Seek? More than that: create. It is face to face with something which does not yet exist, which it alone can make actual, which it alone can bring into the light of day.

  Marcel Proust

  Dark, Light, Mind

  Marcel Proust (2015). “Swann's Way”, p.49, Vintage

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• People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Book, People, Uncertainty Of Life

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• To lose yourself: a voluptuous surrender, lost in your arms, lost to the world, utterly immersed in what is present so that its surroundings fade away. In Benjamin’s terms, to be lost is to be fully present, and to be fully present is to be capable of being in uncertainty and mystery.

  Rebecca Solnit

  World, Arms, Mystery

  Rebecca Solnit (2010). “A Field Guide To Getting Lost”, p.16, Canongate Books

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• She'd preferred the uncertainty, if only because it allowed her to remember him the way he used to be. Sometimes, though, she wondered what he felt when he thought of that year they spent together, or if he ever marveled at what they'd shared, or even whether he thought of her at all.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Years, Together, Way

  Nicholas Sparks (2011). “The Best Of Me”, p.26, Hachette UK

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• Um. Charles thinks that his wolf has chosen me as his mate." "In less than one full day?" It did sound dumb when he said it that way. "Yes." she couldn't keep the uncertainty of her her voice, though, and it bothered Charles. He rolled to his feet and growled softly. "Charles also said I was an Omega wolf she told his father. That might have something to do with it as well." Silence lengthened and she began to think tha the cell phone might have dropped the connection. Then the Marrok laughed softly. "Oh his brother is going to tease him unmercifully about this.

  Patricia Briggs

  Brother, Father, Thinking

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• And the pleasures and rewards of the intellect are inseparable from angst, uncertainty, conflict and even despair.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Despair, Rewards, Conflict

  Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.23, Basic Books

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• I had kissed my share of men, particularly during the war years, when flirtation and instant romance were the light-minded companions of death and uncertainty. Jamie, thought, was something different. His extreme gentleness was in no way tentative; rather it was a promise of power known and held in leash; a challenge and a provocation the more remarkable for its lack of demand. I am yours, it said. And if you will have me, then.

  Diana Gabaldon

  War, Men, Light

  Diana Gabaldon (2011). “Outlander: (Outlander 1)”, p.315, Random House

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• An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God. I know of no such compelling evidence. Because God can be relegated to remote times and places and to ultimate causes, we would have to know a great deal more about the universe than we do now to be sure that no such God exists. To be certain of the existence of God and to be certain of the nonexistence of God seem to me to be the confident extremes in a subject so riddled with doubt and uncertainty as to inspire very little confidence indeed.

  Carl Sagan

  Atheist, Inspire, Doubt

  "Conversations with Carl Sagan". Book edited by Tom Head, p. 70, 2006.

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• If and perhaps.... The language of procrastination and uncertainty. That's just people looking to justify their own lack of action.

  John Flanagan

  Procrastination, Ifs And, People

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• German is my mother tongue and as such more natural to me, but I consider Czech much more affectionate, which is why your letter removes several uncertainties; I see you more clearly, the movements of your body, your hands, so quick, so resolute, it’s almost like a meeting.

  Franz Kafka

  Mother, Hands, Movement

  Franz Kafka (2013). “Letters to Milena”, p.26, Schocken

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• Easier, sometimes, to gulp down giant spoonfuls of uncertainty than it is to swallow throat-clogging capsules of what really is.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Giants, Sometimes, Easier

  Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Triangles: A Novel”, p.401, Simon and Schuster

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• I push against the tree and run away, stumbling, the unreal night playing with me, gravity pulling from below, behind, above, making me fall. And I run through a world that is rotating, conscious of the earth's spin, of our planet twirling as it careens through nothingness, of the stars spiraling above, of the uncertainty of everything, even ground, even sky. Mumtaz never calls out, although a thousand and one voices scream in my mind, sing, whisper, taunt me with madness.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Running, Stars, Fall

  Mohsin Hamid (2000). “Moth Smoke”, p.87, Penguin Books India

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• All night my heart makes its way however it can over the rough ground of uncertainties, but only until night meets and then is overwhelmed by morning, the light deepening, the wind easing and just waiting, as I too wait (and when have I ever been disappointed?) for redbird to sing

  Mary Oliver

  Morning, Heart, Night

  FaceBook post by Mary Oliver from Apr 22, 2015

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• There isn't any fear in existence itself, or any uncertainty, but living creates it.

  Yukio Mishima

  Existence

  Yukio Mishima (2010). “The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea”, p.51, Random House

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