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Edith Wharton quote: "but these backwaters of existence sometimes breed, in their..."
...but these backwaters of existence sometimes breed, in their sluggish depths, strange acuities of emotion... ("Afterward") Edith Wharton
But wherever the truth may lie, this much is crystal-clear: our bigger-and-better society is now like a hypochondriac, so obsessed with its own economic health as to have lost the capacity to remain healthy. . . . Nothing could be more salutary at this stage than a little healthy contempt for a plethora of material blessings. Aldo Leopold
But I don't know how much more socializing I can do, Felipe. I only have the one dress. People will start to notice that I'm wearing the same thing all the time." "You're young and beautiful, darling. You only need the one dress Elizabeth Gilbert
Leo Tolstoy quote: "But the law of loving others could not be discovered by..."
But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable. Leo Tolstoy
But if we betray B., for whom we betrayed A., it does not necessarily follow that we have placated A. The life of a divorce-painter did not in the least resemble the life of the parents she had betrayed. The first betrayal is irreparable. It calls forth a chain reaction of further betrayals, each of which takes us farther and farther away from the point of our original betrayal. Milan Kundera
But what can I do?' - I answer those who speak thus. - '... must I therefore not point out the evil which I clearly, unquestionably see? Leo Tolstoy
But... what about us? What about the past?" she asks blankly. "The past isn't real. it's just a dream," I say. "Don't mention the past. Bret Easton Ellis
But suppose one doesn't quite know which one wants to put first. Suppose," said Harriet, falling back on words which were not her own, "suppose one is cursed with both a heart and a brain?"You can usually tell," said Miss de Vine, "by seeing what kind of mistakes you make. I'm quite sure that one never makes fundamental mistakes about the thing one really wants to do. Fundamental mistakes arise out of lack of genuine interest. In my opinion, that is. Dorothy L. Sayers
But it was too interesting, too new, too flattering, too deeply comforting to resist, it was a liberation to be in love and say so, and she could only let herself go deeper. Ian Mcewan
But a myth, to speak plainly, to me is like a menu in a fancy French restaurant: glamorous, complicated camouflage for a fact you wouldn't otherwise swallow, like maybe lima beans. William Peter Blatty
But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school, then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand. Alan Paton
Mary Wollstonecraft quote: "But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of..."
But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis! Mary Wollstonecraft
Elizabeth Gilbert quote: "But never again use another person's body or emotions as a..."
But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings. Elizabeth Gilbert
But for the man who watches the leaves trembling in the wind’s breath, the rivers meandering through the meadows, life twisting and turning and swirling through things, men living, doing good and evil, the sea rolling its waves and the sky with its expanse of lights, and who asks himself why these leaves are there, why the water flows, why life itself is such a terrible torrent plunging towards the boundless ocean of death in which it will lose itself, why men walk about, labor like ants, why... Gustave Flaubert
But isn't the knowledge that comes from experience more valuable than the knowledge that doesn't? It seems fairly obvious to some of us that a lot of scholars need to go outside and sniff around - walk through the grass, talk to the animals. That sort of thing. Benjamin Hoff

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